The Russian and Belarusian governments will finalize work on Union State programs in the near future, perhaps even on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, during a meeting on Thursday

Ukraine desires to hold a Normandy group meeting only for asking Germany and France to exert pressure on Russia to change the Minsk Agreements, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday

Russian Minister of Emergency Situations, Yevgeny Zinichev, who tragically died on Wednesday in the city of Norilsk trying to save the life of filmmaker Alexander Melnik, will be remembered as a hero, his colleagues say

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas will discuss on Friday the developments in Afghanistan and Belarus with his French and Polish counterparts, German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Andrea Sasse said on Wednesday