By Itar-Tass World Service writer Lyudmila Alexandrova

BERLIN, March 20 (Itar-Tass) - Sanctions against Russia are not a policy but its ersatz, leader of the Left Party’s faction in the German Parliament Gregor Gysi said during the debates about Merkel

MOSCOW, March 20 (Itar-Tass) - Speaker of the State Duma, lower house of Russia’s parliament, Sergei Naryshkin considers foreign countries’ reaction to the events in Crimea inadequate.

MOSCOW, March 20 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an order on the recognition of military ranks and diplomas of the Ukrainian military servicemen who want to serve in the R

VLADIVOSTOK, March 20 (Itar-Tass) - The number of foreign students at the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) by 2020 will reach at least 30 percent of the total number of students.

VLADIMIR, March 20 (Itar-Tass) - About 5,500 tonnes of drugs were confiscated in Central Russia in 2013, head of the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) Viktor Ivanov said.

MINSK, March 20 (Itar-Tass) - Ukraine’s Ambassador to the CIS Ivan Bunechko has resigned from the position of the Commonwealth of Independent States’ head of permanent representatives’ council.

MOSCOW, March 20 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Public Chamber’s coordination committee on the provision of assistance to Ukrainian nationals received a letter from the Veliky Novgorod Region saying that th

MOSCOW, March 20 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s Ministry of Energy and Crimea’s government have agreed on fuel supplies to the republic to October 2014, the ministry reports referring to Minister Alexander

MOSCOW, March 20 (Itar-Tass) - The Federal Security Service (FSB) has busted a channel of arms smuggling from EU states to Russia via Ukraine, the FSB public relations centre told Itar-Tass on Thur