Russia, Georgia and Azerbaijan have the highest prison population per capita in Europe, a newly released report from the Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics for 2018 (SPACE) said on Tuesday

Russia has spent about 18 billion rubles ($2.75 million) on assisting, accommodating and processing asylum-seekers coming into the country from Ukraine since 2014, Kirill Adzinov, chief of Russia's Interior Ministry's visa department, said on Friday

About 4,000 foreigners, who came to Russia as football fans to attend the 2018 FIFA World Cup, still remain in the country, Russian lawmaker Valentina Pivnenko said on Friday at a meeting of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference

The Latvian State Security Service considers that the use of the Latvian public television studio LTV to record an interview with former Foreign Minister Janis Jurkans to RT broadcaster poses risks to the security of the country's information space, local media reported

The United States' decision to withdraw from battlefields, treaties and trade agreements has raised concerns among its European allies about Washington's commitment to the continent, French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said on Monday

Over 1,000 people took part in the march of Waffen-SS legionnaires and their supporters in the Latvian capital of Riga on Saturday, a Sputnik correspondent reported.<

Deputy US Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette has held talks with Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian senior government officials at a ministerial and investment forum in the southern US state of Texas, during which they discussed energy cooperation and uniform natural gas market in the region

Moscow strongly condemns the upcoming march of Waffen-SS legionnaires in Latvia's capital and believes that the event desecrates the memory of those who fought the Nazis, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday