At least four Russian nationals were injured in an armed attack in Tel Aviv on March 8, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

Russian media reports a prosecutor asked a Russian court on Wednesday to jail Ukrainian military pilot Nadezhda Savchenko for 23 years and tofineher of 100,000 rubles ($1,400), saying she was guilty of complicity in killing two Russian journalists reporting on the fighting in east Ukraine in summer 2014.

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.

Russian President Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Head of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring (Rosfinmonitoring) Yury Chikhanchin on March 9, Kremlin reports.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Thorbjorn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, on the sidelines of the UN Human Rights Council annual session on March 1.

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.

The Kremlin press office reported Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin participated in a joint telephone conference with European leaders to discuss the partial cease-fire in Syria.

Ukraine’s former president Viktor Yanukovych who was removed from power in a coup two years ago intends to come back to the country and serve as its president, his lawyer VItaly Serdyuk said on Tuesday.

The United States and Russia announced plans ("Terms for a Cessation of Hostilities in Syria”) on Monday for a cessation of hostilities in Syria, excluding Islamic State and Nusra Front militants that would take effect starting on February 27 at 00:00.

North Korea faces harsh new U.N. sanctions to starve it of money for its nuclear weapons program following a unanimous Security Council vote on Wednesday on a resolution drafted by the United States and Pyongyang's ally China, Reuters informs.

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.

It has decided on Thursday to quit the ruling coalition, increasing pressure on Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to find new allies or risk the collapse of his government, a leader of Ukraine's Samopomich (Self-Reliance) party, Oleh Berezyuk, informs.