The developments around Sputnik Estonia, whose employees were threatened with criminal prosecution unless they stop working for the media outlet, should not be ignored at the European level, Leonid Slutsky, the head of the Russian lower house's foreign affairs committee, told Sputnik on Friday

The International Institute for Tolerance, IIT, has commenced the evaluation process for the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Tolerance Award in accordance with the criteria and conditions approved by the Award's Board of Trustees that reflect the highest standards of accuracy, transparency and integrity

The Libyan National Army's (LNA) Moral Guidance Department head, Brig. Gen. Khalid Al-Mahjoub, confirmed to Sputnik on Thursday that the LNA's head, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, would participate in the Berlin conference on Libya

United Russia faction in the lower house of the Russian parliament will hold a meeting to discuss the candidacy for the post of Russia's new prime minister on Thursday morning, State Duma Deputy Speaker Sergei Neverov said Wednesday

It is highly unlikely that a case on the United States' killing of Iran's top military commander, Qasem Soleimani, will end up in the International Criminal Court (ICC) despite Tehran's plans go down this path, given that the ICC has no jurisdiction in the matter and Iran would not risk exposing itself to potential legal action for its own activities in the Middle East, Toby Cadman, international lawyer, co-founder of London-based Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers, told Sputnik

The prospects for the upcoming Berlin conference on Libya are now weakened given that Monday's talks between the warring parties, which ended with Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar refusing to sign a peace deal with the Tripoli-based government, have revealed an ongoing reluctance to negotiate, experts told Sputnik

Sardar Masood Khan, President Azad Jammu and Kashmir, has said that Shiekh Abdullah’s National Conference and Mehbooba Mufti’s People Democratic Party have all along been a party to India’s massacre, arrests and blinding of the Kashmiri people and we cannot equate the leaders of these parties to the true representative leadership of the Kashmiris