The head of GazpromnAlexei Miller briefed Russian President Vladimir Putin on the company’s results in 2015, and discussed, in particular, gas supply figures for the domestic and European markets and the programme for connecting Russia’s regions to the gas network. The meeting took place in Moscow, on February 29.

Russia called for a UN security council meeting on Friday, February 19, over fears of a possible Turkish ground operation in Syria. The meeting is to be called to discuss Ankara's plans for a ground operation in Syria, the Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova 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.

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.

On February 26, Moscow will host the third session of the Russian-Arab Cooperation Forum (RACF) at the foreign minister level.

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.

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.

Dmitry Kamenshik, the owner of Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, was arrested on Thursday as part of the investigation into the 2011 terrorist attack on the airport, informs The Moscow Times. Kamenshik has been charged with providing unsafe services that led to one or more deaths.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Government members to discuss the Government’s action plan for ensuring stable socioeconomic development in 2016 on February 10.

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.

A gas explosion has completely destroyed five apartments, located vertically from the first floor to the fifth floor, in a section of a residential building in Russia's city of Yaroslavl, emergency officials and media reports said on Tuesday.

On February 9, the Russian President’s Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov met with Abdulhamid Darwish, Secretary General of the Kurdish Democratic Progressive Party in Syria (KDPP).