The 2019 Andrei Stenin International Photo Contest winners' exhibition has opened in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires for the second year running as part of a traveling exhibition organized by the Rossiya Segodnya news agency

Kirill Vyshinsky, executive director of the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency, and Sputnik Estonia's editor-in-chief Elena Chernysheva will participate in the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) that is set to take place on January 27-31 in the French city of Strasbourg, the agency said on Monday

There is no need yet to close the border with China in connection with the spread of the new coronavirus, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova told Sputnik on Monday

Gazprom supplied the first billion cubic meters of gas via the TurkStream gas pipeline: a total of 54 percent to Turkey, and the rest to the Turkish-Bulgarian border, the Russian energy giant said in a press release Monday

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has suspended its preliminary investigation into the case of the Ukrainian sailors who were detained by Russia after an incident in the Kerch Strait, near Crimea, and later returned to Ukraine, Nikolai Polozov, a lawyer representing the sailors, said on Monday

The authorities of the Khabarovsk Territory, located in Russia's Far East, said Monday that they are setting up a center for monitoring the situation with the latest strain of coronavirus comprised of several agencies' representatives

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has gained significant ground in capturing the key town of Maarat al-Numan in the province of Idlib by taking suburban villages to its north, Syrian media reported on Monday

The Mongolian authorities have decided to close its border with China and suspend higher education institutions in the wake of the new coronavirus outbreak, state media reported on Monday