The UN Security Council is holding an emergency session on the situation in Ukraine over repeated violations of the ceasefire agreed upon in February in Minsk.

The New York Times is urging the Obama administration to maintain sanctions on Russia even it threatens to undermine NASA’s program.

The US might deploy nuclear cruise missiles in Europe as a potential response to what Washington calls a violation of the INF Treaty, according to a leak published by the Associated Press.

The World Bank (WB) improved the evaluation of the decline of the Russian economy in 2015 to 2.7 percent, as compared with the April forecast of 3.8 percent.

The Russian Federation has produced 45.288 million tons of petrol in May, and the average daily production amounted to 10.708 million barrels.

“The ‘Admiral Vladimirsky’ oceanographic ship is expected to get a group of Russian scientists and travellers to the Antarctica in 2015, which will become the first Antarctic expedition of Russian citizens in 30 years

The official representative of Ankara announced the adjusted scheduled terms of the launch of “The Turkish Stream”.

The gas operator Gassco has exported 29.2 billion cubic meters of gas during the period from January to March of this year, while “Gazprom” provided only 20.29 billion cubic meters. I

The Russian government approved the agreement on free trade zone between the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEC) and Vietnam.

Data exchange through the Internet, instant messaging, chats and e-mail, social networks, sharing photos and movies, browsing of web-pages and blogs are allowed, provided that such services are widely available to the public for no charge to the users.