MOSCOW, March 18 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has informed the Russian parliament and government about suggestions of the State council of the Republic of Crimea - the parliament

UNITED NATIONS, March 18 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said on Monday that the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) withdrawal from Afghanistan co

MOSCOW, March 17 (Itar-Tass) - The foreign ministers of Russia and Kazakhstan, Sergei Lavrov and Yerlan Idrisov, discussed in a telephone conversation on Monday ways out of the crisis in Ukraine, R

MOSCOW, March 17 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has met ambassadors and plenipotentiary representatives to member-states of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO)

BISHKEK, March 17 (Itar-Tass) - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak asked Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev by telephone on Monday for assistance in searching for the missing Malaysian Airlines

MOSCOW, March 17 (Itar-Tass) - Almost 90 percent of polled Muscovites have backed Crimea’s joining Russia as a constituent entity, the president of the Public Opinion Foundation told a news confere

TOKYO, March 17 (Itar-Tass) - Japan and North Korea in the near future intend to resume the dialogue on normalisation of relations that had been interrupted at the end of 2012.

VLADIVOSTOK, March 17 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s famous traveller Fyodor Konyukhov has covered over 9,000 kilometres across the Pacific Ocean on his solo voyage on board the Turgoyak boat.

SOCHI, March 17 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has thanked the members of the Paralympic national team for their triumphant performance at the Sochi Olympic Games.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, March 17 (Itar-Tass) - The Karymsky volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has again spewed ash to a height of up to two kilometres above sea level, the Kamchatka Volcani