MINSK, August 27 (RIA Novosti) – The participants of the Customs Union-Ukraine-EU meeting in the Belarusian capital Minsk have had a candid dialogue, Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei said.

“The Russian side has expressed its concerns and this position coincides with the concerns voiced by the other Customs Union member countries following ...

MINSK, August 26 (RIA Novosti) – EU, Russia and Ukraine will gather for three-party gas talks in early September, the European Commission vice-president in charge of energy, Gunther Oettinger, said in Minsk Tuesday.

The EU official told RIA Novosti that “everyone” is ready to meet in “the first ten days of September.”

The official said he met with...

MOSCOW, August 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russia’s voluntary repatriation program is to be expanded by 20 percent due to the large amount of Ukrainian refugees entering Russia, making it possible for 11,291 people to settle down in different regions of the country, the Russian government said in a statement on its website Wednesday.

“Regional programs that ...

MOSCOW, August 20 (RIA Novosti) - A Just Russia political party leader Sergei Mironov expressed his support for Andrei Stenin, an International Information Agency Rossiya Segodnya photographer currently missing in Ukraine.

“I am joining the support expressed for Andrei Stenin. I demand the missing photojournalist of Rossiya Segodnya be found as s...

International Information Agency Rossiya Segodnya photo correspondent Andrei Stenin, who was covering the events in Donetsk, Slaviansk and other eastern Ukrainian cities, went missing on August 5.  An informed source has told RIA Novosti earlier that Stenin is currently being held by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in the Zaporizhia Region ...