Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on statements made by Pentagon officials that Russian and U.S. planes had a close encounter over Syria on October 17th, RIA Novosti reported.

When asked to comment on the incident, Peskov said, “It is for my colleagues at the Ministry of Defense."

Earlier on Friday, Lieutenant General Jeff Harrigian, the commander of U.S. Air Force Central Command, described an incident in which a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft and a Russian fighter flew …

The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, and Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, agreed to step up negotiations on a free trade area and discussed procedures for further negotiations at the highest level, during a recent telephone conversation, as reported by the press service of the Ukrainian State.

According to the report, Poroshenko informed the Turkish leader about an increase in the period for a visa-free stay from 60 to 90 days for Turkish citizens visiting Ukraine.

The Turkish …

At a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that the United States had disrupted the ceasefire in Syria.

According to him, US President Barack Obama had promised to separate the terrorists from the opposition in Syria in seven days. “The United States have admitted that part of Aleppo is still occupied by terrorist organizations, Jabhat an-Nusra [also known as the Al-Nusra Front] and ISIL, and it can be seen on video, when we observe the …

On Friday, a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft flew over the Black Sea near the coast of the Crimea and a Swedish Gulfsteam 4 signals intelligence aircraft flew over Russia’s Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad, Interfax reported.

According to websites that track the movement of military aircraft, the U.S. P-8A with tail number 168 761 took off from the Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily and flew over the southern coast of the Crimea.

The Swedish Air Force’s Gulfstream 4 with …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denied that Russia was behind the airstrikes that killed 22 school children in Syria’s Idlib province on Thursday, Izvestia reported.

At a press conference following a meeting with his Syrian and Iranian counterparts, Walid Muallem and Mohammad Javad Zarif, Lavrov said that photographs that had been circulating on social media allegedly showing that Russian aircraft were responsible for the airstrikes were “fabricated”.

“Now, the episode has been spun…. …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem that Moscow will do everything necessary to support the Syrian people, especially in regards to countering the effects of economic sanctions imposed against Damascus by the West, TASS reported.

"We are doing and will do whatever is necessary to support the Syrian people in this difficult moment, especially when… there are even tougher economic sanctions in Syria, which directly hit the civilian population,” Lavrov …

German journalist, Jürgen Roth, believes that the cause of the 2010 plane crash near Smolensk was a terrorist attack committed by Russian security services. The journalist is convinced that it was ordered by a high-ranking Polish politician.

According to Gazeta Polska, Roth's book titled ‘Smolensk 2010: The plot that changed the world’ will be published in November. The author makes reference to secret material of the Federal Intelligence Service of Germany (BND). These documents allegedly …

The minister of foreign affairs of Lithuania, Linas Linkevičius, stated during a meeting at the Warsaw Security Forum that the European Union and NATO should respond to the aggressive actions of the Russian Federation, reported a correspondent for Evropeyskaya Pravda.

“When we talk about troublesome countries, the first country that comes to mind isn’t ‘superpower Russia’ but ‘super problem Russia.’ Today, it is important to react in due time, but not wait until it is too late, which is what …