Probe Into 2016 Russian Tu-154 Crash Near Sochi Rules Out Blast on Board All data obtained during the investigation of the Tu-154 airplane crash near Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi last year completely rules out the version of an explosion on board the aircraft, Russian Investigative Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko has said. 25.12.2017
Trump's 'Gamble': Jerusalem Decision May Cause War - Iran's Parliament Speaker Iran's parliament speaker Ali Larijani spoke about Trump's Jerusalem move as well as Syrian peace settlement talks after meeting Russia's State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin in Islamabad. 24.12.2017
Number of Terror-Related Cases Opened in Germany Up Five-fold in 2017 – Reports The German Public Prosecutor General opened five times more cases related to terrorism in 2017 than in the previous year, local media reported on Saturday. 23.12.2017
Russia Ready to Help Deescalate Tensions With North Korea Moscow is urging all parties to the Korean crisis to take efforts to deescalate tensions on the Korean peninsula, and stands ready to foster these efforts, Russia's Deputy Envoy to the UN Vladimir Safronkov said following the vote on the new sanctions against Pyongyang at the UN Security Council on Friday. 22.12.2017
Mission Impossible: Will Boris Johnson Thaw UK-Russia Relations? Johnson is scheduled to visit Moscow this Friday in what would be the first official visit by a British Foreign Secretary to Russia in more than five years. 21.12.2017
Iraq’s Abadi mulls taking full control of penniless Kurdistan as riots spark worries of new crisis MPs in Baghdad must have pinched themselves when a KRG delegation recently asked them for money. 20.12.2017
‘Abandon Cold War mentality’: China hits back at Trump’s ‘selfish’ national strategy China has rejected the insinuation that it is a “revisionist state,” voiced by the US in its national security strategy. 19.12.2017
Trump unveils new security strategy based on 'principled realism' President Donald Trump has released a new national security strategy for the US. 18.12.2017
Libyan National Army Commander: Government of National Accord Lost Legitimacy Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) lost its legitimacy as the Libyan Political Agreement reached in December 2015 in Skhirat has expired, Libyan National Army Commander Gen. 17.12.2017
German Intelligence Covertly Provided Media With Information Criticizing Russia German Federal Intelligence Agency (BND) covertly provided a number of journalists with information containing criticism of Russia, local media reported. 16.12.2017
Analysts: Russia Saved Syria From Disintegration Instigated by US Although Russia has upset the US strategy aimed at disintegrating Syria and remapping the Middle East, Washington will not stop trying to implement its plans, Turkish military analysts have told Sputnik, stressing that US President Donald Trump's Jerusalem move is a sign that the Americans will continue to provoke conflicts in the region. 15.12.2017
EU Leaders Agree to Prolong Anti-Russian Economic Sanctions EU has decided to prolong the anti-Russian economic sanctions for another six months, European Council President Donald Tusk said. 14.12.2017
Catalan Crisis Could Cost Spain Nearly 15% of Tourists, Over $14Bln The tourist flow to Spain could go down by as much as 15 percent because of the crisis caused by Catalonia's attempt to secede, survey shows. 13.12.2017
Pentagon Looking to Triple Size of Afghan Air Force by 2025 The US military is set to triple the size of the Afghan air force over the next 7 to 8 years, Air Force Brig. 12.12.2017
Attempted Terror Attack Shows Need for Strict Immigration Reform - White House The attempted terrorist attack in New York City shows the need for enhanced immigration policies so as to prevent terrorists from entering the United States, White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders said during a press briefing on Monday. 11.12.2017
Bitcoin 'Will Burst When There is No New Money to Feed It' - Analyst With Bitcoin having lost a fifth of its value in a single day after earlier surging by more than 40 percent, Leonid Delitsin, a leading analyst at the investment holding company "FINAM," told Radio Sputnik that Bitcoin is actually a bubble waiting to burst. 10.12.2017
Just Say No: UN Rejects White House Recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli Capital At a time when it appears that almost the entire developed world has refuted a recent White House claim of support for the highly-disputed location of Israel’s capital city, one of the world’s most prominent global organizations has chimed in, asserting its refutation of the deeply unpopular Washington move. 09.12.2017
Turkey, France Plan to Make Trump Change His Decision on Jerusalem - Reports The US president's intention to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has sparked criticism all across the world, with representatives of the international community fearing that the move could fuel the situation in the Middle East. 08.12.2017
UKIP: British People Unhappy With First Phase of Brexit Deal According to the EU-UK agreement, published on Friday following the first technical phase of the Brexit talks, the United Kingdom will fulfill its financial obligations to the EU budget as well as on a number of EU programs until 2020. 07.12.2017
Kabul Sees No Obstacles for Economic Cooperation With Moscow Chief Executive of Afghanistan’s government Abdullah Abdullah told Sputnik in an interview that Moscow and Kabul have had a lot experience in economic cooperation in the past and now have big opportunities to develop this cooperation in the future. 06.12.2017
