World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has suspended Russia’s anti-doping agency (RusADA) deeming it “non- compliant”. It has raised the possibility of Russian athletes being barred from…
224 died as Russian jet crashed in Egypt, an IS affiliate claimed role
A Russian plane carrying 217 passengers and seven crew members crashed into a mountainous area of Egypt’s Sinai peninsula on 31 October shortly after losing…
Russia decided to send troops in Syria
Russian parliament Duma gave its assent to President Vladimir Putin to send Russian troops to crisis-struck Syria. However, the Kremlin decided that it will only use air force there, and not ground troops.
Lithuania to have the statue of Mahatma Gandhi on Russian border
Lithuania will unveil the statue of Mahatma Gandhi a few hundred metres from the Russian border. Lithuanian PM Algirdas Butkevicius and Gandhi’s grandson and former governor of West Bengal, Gopal Krishna Gandhi, will unveil to the world a statue of friendship between Gandhi and Jewish architect’s enclave of Kaliningrad in Russia and the village of Rusne in western Lithuanian.