11:11 22.06.2015(updated 11:24 22.06.2015) Get short URL

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he believes it’s possible to resolve the Southern Kuril Island territorial dispute with Japan, Kyodo news reported.

Putin said it was necessary for him to hold a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to discuss the territorial dispute that has held bilateral ties hostage since the...

Japan's former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama called on Shinzo Abe to lift economic sanctions that Tokyo imposed on Moscow after Crimea joined Russia, according to Sputnik News.

“I think Japan should take a step back from the economic sanctions. Sadly, during the recent G7 summit Prime Minister Shinzo Abe went in favor of the deci...

Japan’s Fast Retailing Co. Ltd intends to open clothes stores in Russian regions under the Uniqlo brand. The announcement was made by the company's Vice President Noriaki Koyami during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum's ‘Russia-Japan: Prospects for Business Cooperation’ roundtable.

For now the brand is represented only...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia treats some of NATO military alliance’s drills as attempts to provoke rather than exercise, but it has been showing restraint in the face of these provocations, Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said.

"Separate NATO actions look more like provocations than manoeuvres," the senior security official said in an in...

22:23 21.06.2015(updated 03:09 22.06.2015) Get short URL

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Vladimir Putin is unlikely to announce his candidacy for president this year if he makes a decision to run in the 2018 elections, Kremlin Chief of Staff Sergei Ivanov said Sunday.

“I think, knowing Vladimir Vladimirovich well enough, that if he stands again, he will n...

Russian Naval Forces plan to upgrade ten nuclear submarines, said the Navy Commander Viktor Chirkov during the ceremony in honor of the top graduates of naval institutes in St. Petersburg.

“The modernization is planned for about ten nuclear submarines of project 971 and 949 at the factory of ‘Zvezdochka’ in Severodvinsk and the factory ‘Zvezdochka’ ...

On June 21 the Belgian Foreign Ministry has posted a link on Twitter to Foreign Minister Didier Randers's video interview in which he reaffirms his pledge, made ahead of his visit to China, that part of the accounts kept with the ING Bank by Russian diplomatic missions in Brussels would be unfrozen.

He also said that he hopes to unfreeze the...