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Montenegro on Wednesday offered support for the UK's diplomatic and economic measures against Russia, over claims that the Kremlin authorised use of deadly nerve gas on a Russian living in the city of Salisbury.

The U.S. Treasury Department named yesterday major Russian businessmen including the heads of the two biggest banks, metals magnates and the boss of the state gas monopoly on a list of oligarchs close to the Kremlin.

MOSCOW - Serbian tennis player Viktor Troicki has failed to reach the quarter-finals of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow after losing 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 to world number 123 Daniil Medvedev of Russia on Thursday.

In yet another display of unpredictability, fourth-seeded Troicki was defeated by the little-known Russian despite having a one-set advantage at one point in the match.

The “official wine of the Kremlin” is from Mount Athos, commonly referred to as the Holy Mountain, an autonomous monastic state. Its wine is called Kormilitsa, meaning nurse in Russian, and it is served by the Kremlin in high-level meetings with foreign dignitaries.

The European Union hit out May 30 at a travel ban imposed by Russia on 89 European citizens -- many of whom are outspoken Kremlin critics -- calling it "totally arbitrary and unjustified".

Police have found four vehicles that CCTV systems spotted at the time and place of Boris Nemtsov's murder.

Nemtsov was shot 4-6 times in the back and died shortly before midnight on Thursday as he crossed a bridge in the view of the Kremlin. The fatal wound came from a shot in the heart, RT has reported.

A manhunt is now underway.

Russia's foreign minister said Wednesday that Moscow was not interested in breaking up Ukraine despite respecting declarations of independence by the two main eastern regions.
      

A Ukrainian flag was unfurled on the top of a Moscow skyscraper within sight of the Kremlin on Aug. 20, officials said, as fighting in eastern Ukraine has frayed bilateral ties.
      
The Soviet star crowning the Stalin-era skyscraper, located just a kilometre from the Kremlin, was also painted in the yellow and blue colours of the national flag.
     

An irate mob smashed the Russian embassy's windows in Kiev and threw a Molotov cocktail against its walls June 14 in the wake of the downing by pro-Kremlin rebels of a military plane that killed 49 troops.

Officials confident in Ukraine's planned May 25th election