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Elizavetta Peskova, the Turkey-born daughter of Kremlin spokesperson Dmitriy Peskov, is scheduled to visit the southern resort province of Antalya to attend a fashion show.

Peskova announced that she would be in Antalya to attend Turkey's biggest fashion show, "Dosso Dossi Fashion Show," which will be held between June 8 and June 13.

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Prime Minister and President-elect Aleksandar Vucic say he finds "the campaign about Russia arming Croatia in the early 1990s interesting."

Prime Minister and President-elect Aleksandar Vucic say he finds "the campaign about Russia arming Croatia in the early 1990s interesting."

Russia's combative ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, died suddenly in New York on Feb. 20 after being taken ill at work, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

The ministry gave no details on the circumstances of his death but offered condolences to his relatives and said the diplomat had died one day before his 65th birthday.

The Russian ambassador to Yemen has been shot and killed in Sanaa, according to reports coming from the Arab kingdom.

Vladimir Dedushkin was reportedly “keeping a close eye” in the war-torn country.

The diplomat was reportedly assassinated in the capital Sanaa.

The assassination was reported by Saudi Arabia’s Barq news agency.

Russian officials will examine the phone of Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, who killed Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov late on Dec. 19, as part of a joint investigation between Russian and Turkish officials regarding the assassination of the envoy.

The killing of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov is "being examined meticulously," Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has said, adding that "initial information" had been reached regarding the assassin, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş.

The street housing the Russian Embassy building and exhibition hall in Ankara where Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov was assassinated on Dec. 19 will be renamed after the late envoy. 

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu was on his way to Moscow to meet with his Russian and Iranian counterparts to discuss Syria, as Russian Ambassador to Ankara Andrey Karlov was shot dead in Ankara on Dec. 19, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hüseyin Müftüoğlu confirmed to the Hürriyet Daily News. 

Russia's ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, was assassinated at an art exhibition in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Dec. 19, Russia and Turkey have confirmed.

Karlov was shot with a gun while making a speech at a photography exhibition in the Turkish capital, the Russian Embassy said, adding that it believed that it was a radical Islamist attack.