Putin's 14th annual call-in marathon this Thursday lasted three and a half hours. Russian President fielded some of the 3 million questions submitted by ordinary citizens during the call-in show.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will hold an ambassadorial meeting with Russia in the next two weeks, restarting high level dialogue that has largely been stalled since Moscow annexed Crimea two years ago, The Wall Street Journal informs. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin made the announcement at a meeting with Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Interior Ministry Troops Commander Viktor Zolotov, Federal Drug Control Service Director Viktor Ivanov and Federal Migration Service First Deputy Director Yekaterina Yegorova. He announces the creation of the National Guard on the basis of the Interior Ministry Troops.

The cost of maintaining the body of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin in the mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square is estimated at 13 million rubles ($197,000) for 2016, the Interfax news agency reported Tuesday.

RIA Novosti reported on Thursday a psychiatric evaluation of Varvara Karaulova (Alexandra Ivanova), a student of the Moscow State University who stands charged with attempting to join the Islamic State militants in Syria, has found her mentally fit.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published on Sunday some 11.5 million documents revealing "the offshore links of some of the planet’s most prominent people".

This year the world marks the 55th anniversary of mankind's first voyage to outer space. On April 12, 1961 the Soviet Union shook the world by sending the first cosmonaut into space. Yuri Gagarin, was the first human to orbit the Earth.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied on Thursday any corruption charges contained in  the recent Panama Papera scandal.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Security Council on improving Russia’s migration policy in the interests of protecting national security on March 31.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet the heads of the Russian space industry and hold a video conference with the International Space Station to mark Cosmonautics Day on Tuesday, Sputnik informed on Monday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced the creation of a new National Guard and appointed his former bodyguard and ex-chief of the country's interior troops as head of the service.

A group of 18 people suspected of having links with the Islamic State terrorist organization have been detained in Moscow, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Wednesday, citing an unidentified source in law enforcement.