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In a telephone conversation on Tuesday President Vladimir Putin agreed to maintain regular contact with the new leader of France, Francois Hollande.
The Kremlin Press Service reports that the presidents expressed their intention to "work together to ensure the development of relations between Russia and France, and to make this a high priority."
On Tuesday, President Putin also called former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and thanked him for his many years of joint constructive work.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland will discuss reforming the Council of Europe at their talks, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Shots fired from Syria hit the central Israeli-occupied Golan Heights overnight, a military spokeswoman said Monday morning, causing no harm or damage.
Analysts believe the latest missile firings by North Korea are part of a political chess game aimed at attracting international attention and extorting concessions.
President Vladimir Putin has cancelled Russia’s joining the Open Government Partnership this year, the Russian leader’ press secretary Dmitry Peskov said in a statement.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland will discuss reforming the Council of Europe at their talks, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Russia and the US have agreed that the fate of President Bashar Assad is in the hands of the Syrian people. “The US has signed an American-Russian initiative dated May 7, which sets no preconditions whatsoever,” the Russian foreign chief stressed.
At least 52 people died and over 400 were wounded as a result of a sweeping offensive of the Syrian regime forces against the rebel stronghold of Qusair near the Lebanese border, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports.
China has asked North Korea to release a fishing crew of 16 seized more than two weeks ago in an incident that state media called a "hijacking" of their boat. The kidnappers demanded 600,000 yuan (98,000 dollars) for the return of the boat and crew.
Shots fired from Syria hit the central Israeli-occupied Golan Heights overnight, a military spokeswoman said Monday morning, causing no harm or damage.
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov is leaving for an official visit to Moscow on Monday, announced the press service of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry.
The first woman mountain climber in the history of Ingushetia Leila Albogachieva has climbed the highest peak in the world, taking with her the flag of the 2014 Sochi Olympics, which she raised on the summit.
On the night from May 18 to May 19th hundreds of thousands of people all across Russia - from Vladivostok in the Far East to Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea joined the Museum Night international cultural event marking the International Museum Day. Only in Moscow the Museum Night attracted more than 1 million people.
At a time of slowing economic growth, labour market issues are becoming more apparent. Currently, experts in Russia talk of a lack of qualified specialists, a deteriorating demographic situation and complicated legislative framework as being among the key concerns to be addressed by politicians and the business community.
On Monday morning with index gains helped by a 4.4% climb for China Coal Energy, Hong Kong shares were set to start at their highest point in over a week.
The Russian government has received prime ministerial instructions to work out measures which would allow Russia to buck the global downward trend and ignite sustained economic expansion at an annual rate of at least 4%.
A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)
In a harsh rebuttal to George Soros, the President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research Hans-Werner Sinn accused the speculator of “playing with fire” and stated that “Germany will not accept Eurobonds” in spite of the pressure from the investing community.
In an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia, Wolf Richter talks about the ECB's desperation, the money printing bonanza of the world's central banks and about a French finance minister who is barking at the wrong tree. Wolf Richter is the editor of , entrepreneur, private equity specialist and the author of "Big Like: Cascade Into An Odyssey".
Internet veteran Yahoo Inc agreed to buy the blogging site Tumblr Inc in a deal worth over 1 billion dollars, US media reported.
Rescuers recovered five more bodies from a collapsed underground room at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the confirmed death toll to 14, police said Monday. Fourteen other workers were still missing and feared dead.
The 20-year-old Dutch national, Syrian Schrijver, who tried to kill a Russian boy name Nikita Onishchenko in Crete, will be brought before the court today in order to testify.
Syrians should decide Assad’s fate – Russian FM Lavrov 
