MOSCOW, May 27 (Itar-Tass) - Russia and Turkey have reached strategic partnership in energy sphere, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after the fourth meeting of the Russian-Turkish strategic pla

DONETSK, May 27 (Itar-Tass) - Coalminers in the Donbass coalfields have gone on an open-ended strike to demand Ukrainian troops and other forces leave the Donetsk Region, the first deputy coal mini

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KIEV, May 27 (Itar-Tass) - Ukraine's parliament-appointed Interior Minister Arsen Avakov confirmed the death of dozens of people in Kiev authorities' military operation in Donetsk, the UNN agency r

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, May 27 (Itar-Tass) - The Shiveluch volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has spewed ash to a height of up to 10 km above sea level.

MOSCOW, May 27 (Itar-Tass) - The results of elections to the European Parliament, demonstrating strong performance of far-right parties, reveal the revanche (revenge) of national sovereignties over

KALININGRAD, May 26 (Itar-Tass) - An international scientific conference - Baltic Sea Forum - opens in Kaliningrad region’s Svetlogorsk.

ASTANA, May 26 (Itar-Tass) - A treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union to be sealed on paper in Astana on May 29 does not contain any clauses regulating political, humanitarian or any other kind of c

SYDNEY, May 26 (Itar-Tass) - Famous Russian traveller Fyodor Konyukhov’s, who is crossing the Pacific solo in the rowboat Turgoyak, is yet to cover less than 150 nautical miles, or about 270 kilome

MOSCOW, May 26 (Itar-Tass) - Stabilisation in South Sudan is indispensable to expand trade and economic relations between the two countries, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.