Moscow

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım will visit Russia on Dec. 5-7, where he will discuss Ankara's  first steps to ensure that trade with China, Russia and Iran is conducted in local currency, along with several other key issues.

All accommodation expenses and other expenditures by the Turkish delegation will be paid for in Russian rubles, the Prime Ministry said in a statement yesterday. 

Moscow sees as a positive quality the determination of the newly-elected President of the USA Donald Trump, stated former Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ordzhonikidze.

The Russian diplomat said on BNR that Russia, and the Soviet Union before that, have always worked better with US presidents from the Republican Party.

A scandal without precedent in post-Soviet history has occurred in relations between Moscow and Belgrade.

The Beta agency reported this on Friday, quoting an article published by the Moscow-based newspaper Kommersant.

Russia is considering plans to resume its military presence in Vietnam and Cuba where Moscow earlier had military bases, Russian news agencies quoted Russian Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Pankov as saying on Oct. 7. 

"We are dealing with this issue," the agencies quoted Pankov as saying in the State Duma lower house of Russia's parliament, according to Reuters. 

BELGRADE - Mayor of Belgrade Sinisa Mali and the Minister of the Government of Moscow Sergei Cheremin signed a protocol on the Days of Belgrade event, scheduled to take place in Moscow in 2017, and Mali said that the two cities will work together in the spheres of urban planning and public space management and that they can learn much from one another.

BELGRADE - Moscow is considering plans to return to Cuba and Vietnam where it had military bases in the past, Russia's Deputy Defense Minister Nikolay Pankov said on Friday, according to RIA news agency.

"We are working on this," Pankov said, while declining to elaborate.

Kyrgyz migrant worker Belek Asanbekov sits at the kitchen table of his cramped Moscow apartment, scrolling through pictures on his mobile phone of friends killed days earlier in a fire at work.

Russian state power company InterRAO may enhance its presence in Turkey once relations between Moscow and Ankara are fully restored, a board member told Reuters Russia Investment Summit.

MOSCOW - Internet censorship is possible, and it is very present, Tanjug Director Branka Djukic said in Moscow Tuesday at an international forum titled "The New Era of Journalism: A Farewell to the Mainstream."

MOSCOW - Internet censorship is possible, and it is very present, Tanjug Director Branka Djukic said in Moscow Tuesday at an international forum titled "The New Era of Journalism: A Farewell to the Mainstream."