Russia

New footage of torture and sexual assaults on prisoners and detainees have caused quite a stir in Russia. The footage revealed the staff of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and guards of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service…

Russia has launched spacecraft Soyuz MS-19 carrying Russian film director Klim Shipenko and actor Yulia Peresildi, in a historic first to film a movie in orbit. Soyuz MS-19 was launched from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan set off for the…

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Qatar's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov  had a meeting on 11 March, in Doha to discuss the Syrian crisis and ways of…