Russia has registered on Monday its first case of a person infected with the Zika virus after a tourist contracted the disease in the Dominican Republic, Russian Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova said.

The Moscow Metro opened the doors of its 200th station — Salaryevo — on Monday. According to The Railway Gazette, the 1·9 km section from Rumyantsevo to Salaryevo follows on from the opening of the previous extension, a 2·5 km section from Troparyevo to Rumyantsevo, on January 18.

Oil rose on Monday, extending a rally triggered last week by speculation that OPEC might agree to cut production to reduce a supply glut that has pushed prices to the lowest in over a decade, Reuters reports on February 15.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an exclusive interview with the AFP news agency on Friday said there was a risk of Turkish and Saudi Arabian military intervention into Syria, informs TASS. The statement comes as Riyadh has reiterated its goal of ousting the leader from office.

Representatives of the Quartet — European Union High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. United States Secretary of State John Kerry and Deputy United Nations Secretary-General Jan Eliasson — met in Munich on 12 February.

The flu epidemic death toll in Ukraine has reached 273, the Ukrainian Health Ministry said in a report on Friday.

Maslenitsa is the Russian Spring festival that marks the end of winter and combines traditional Russian Orthodox rituals with a much older pagan sun festival.

Russia has offered “specific proposals” on Syrian ceasefire andis waiting forreaction to them from the International Syria Support Group, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the start of talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry. According to RT, Lavrov made the statement before meeting his US counterpart John Kerry on the eve of the start of the Munich Security Conference.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny filed a lawsuit to the Russian petrochemical giant Sibur against Russian President Vladimir Putin after a company in which the Russian leader's son-in-law is a shareholder received $1.75 billion in state support.

On February 11 in the course of a videoconference, the Chief of the General Staff of Russia’s Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov, who was at the Opuk testing range in Crimea, and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu briefed the President on the inspection of the combat readiness of the Southern Military District troops.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has spoken in favor of Kurdish participation in the intra-Syrian talks in Geneva, which Turkey opposes.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has warned against against supporting former US Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the upcoming presidential, calling her a “war hawk with bad judgment” who gets an “emotional rush out of killing people.”