Kiev ignores all possibilities for a peaceful settlement of the situation in Donbas, Putin said
Biden on Monday told a press conference at the White House that if Russian tanks and troops cross the border and enter Ukraine, "there will be no longer Nord Stream 2"
Russia plays down hope of breakthrough, even as Macron flies to Moscow
Prime Minister Imran Khan will undertake a crucial visit to Russia later this month - the first by a Pakistani premier in over two decades for a meeting with President Vladimir Putin.
Russia has rubbished a Russian media report describing Kashmir as another Palestine in the making and reaffirmed its position that it is a bilateral matter between India and Pakistan.
As Russia masses more than 100,000 troops near the border, Moscow has said it is not planning an invasion but could take unspecified military action if its security demands are not met
It came after Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Beijing on Friday.
Russia has assembled 70% of military it needs to invade Ukraine: Washington
Russia is reporting a record daily count of new coronavirus infections, a tenfold spike from a month ago as the highly contagious omicron variant spreads through the country
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping met on Friday in China on the sidelines of the Beijing Winter Olympics and reaffirmed their close ties
Russia has shut down the Moscow bureau of Deutsche Welle, Germany's international media broadcaster, and has withdrawn the press credentials of all of DW's journalists on Friday
Unveil 30-year gas deal via new pipeline; tell NATO to stop expansion
Putin and Xi present united front in talks at Beijing Winter Olympics amid strained relations with West
The visit comes after the U.S. accused the Kremlin on Thursday of an elaborate plot to fabricate an attack by Ukrainian forces that Russia could use as a pretext to take military action
Typically, investors hedge against potential losses by buying assets that would pay out if the situation reverses
"We have an array of tools that we can deploy if we see companies including those in China doing their best to backfill US export control actions, to evade and get around them": US govt spokesperson
India is a top importer of urea and other soil nutrients needed to feed its huge agriculture sector, which employs about 60% of the country's workforce and accounts for 15% of $2.7 trillion economy
Russia sent 30,000 troops, weapons to Belarus: NATO
Top-rated government bonds and gold, assets that typically rally when political upheaval or war threaten, fail to gain in flare up.
President Joe Biden is sending about 2,000 troops from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Poland and Germany this week and shifting roughly 1,000 Germany-based soldiers to Romania