RussianPM Oleg Mikheyev of A Just Russia Party social democratic party has asked the Prosecutor General's Office to investigate TripAdvisor after the travel company defined Crimea on a map as a subject of Ukraine, rather than Russia.

Stock markets gained for the third day on Friday, February 26, with G20 policymakers meet in Shanghai. As Investing.com reports G20 leaders were to discuss how to reboot a struggling global economy after a rocky start to the year.

Two people have been killed as a result of a rock burst at the Severnaya coalmine in the city of Vorkuta in Russia’s northwestern Komi Republic, TASS informs on Thursday.

The European Union has only ten days left to significantly reduce the flow of migrants and asylum-seekers into Europe from Turkey, or a fragile Schengen system is at risk of total collapse, according to the EU’s migration commissioner.

On February 24, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke over the telephone with US Secretary of State John Kerry on the initiative of the US side, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation reports.

In Syria, Russia achieved its main goal of shoring up the government of President Bashar al-Assad, long the Kremlin’s foremost Arab ally.

Russian stats gas company Gazprom, Italia’s Edison and Greek DEPA signed a memorandum on  gas supplies from Russia over the Black Sea bottom from third countries to Greece and from Greece to Italy, the Russian gas holding said on Wednesday. According to TASS, the purpose of the agreement is to organize the southern route of Russian gas supplies to Europe.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has for the first time acknowledged that the Russian A321 plane that crashed in Sinai last October was downed by terrorists, informs TASS.

Russia’s credit performance has finally stabilised after a notable four-year decline, according to new data out today from FICO.

Diplomatic sources reported on Tuesday that U.S. President Barack Obama, in telephone talks on Feb. 9, urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to refrain from visiting Russia in May, as Washington seeks to isolate Moscow over its actions in Ukraine and Syria. According to RT, Obama said that it was not the right moment for visiting Russia.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has published on social media a report by an opposition activist Ilya Yashin which claims that Kadyrov's rule poses a threat to Russia. Moreover, Yashin claims that Kadyrov is a corrupt and merciless dictator whose growing political ambitions pose a serious danger to Russia’s future.

Ukrainians have chosen a Crimean Tatar singer, Susan's Jamaladinova (Jamala), and her song about the mass deportation of Tatars under Josef Stalin as the country's entry for this year's Eurovision song contest.