The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that it summoned Finnish Ambassador to Russia Antti Helantera to inform him about the closure of the Russian embassy's office in the Finnish city of Lappeenranta and the offices of the St. Petersburg Consulate General of Finland in Murmansk and Petrozavodsk

The United States and Russia may be experiencing tensions in their bilateral relations, but ordinary Americans and Russians are treating each other with respect, Russian sailor and voyager Sergey Sinelnik told Sputnik after his recent trip from Alaska to Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on the wooden boat Pilgrim

A crew of Russian and US voyagers who are traveling around the world on the Pilgrim a replica of the 18th century wooden Pomor boat completed another stage of their trip by sailing from Alaska to Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, the team captain Sergey Sinelnik told Sputnik

The French Foreign Ministry on Thursday expressed concern regarding the toughened jail sentence of Russian historian Yuri Dmitriev, known as a researcher of the period of Stalin's repressions, who was charged with the sexual abuse of his adopted daughter

The Finnish and Russian interior ministers will later in the day discuss engagement in the fields of migration and crime prevention in Helsinki, the Finnish ministry said Friday

Representatives of the Russian and Belarusian central banks have exchanged information regarding the economic situation in the two countries and discussed issues pertaining to bilateral cooperation, the Belarusian National Bank's press service announced on Monday