Russian pranksters had a phone call with European Parliament President David Sassoli using identities of Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and discussed with him the situation in Belarus, as follows from an audio tape published on YouTube by prankster Alexey Stolyarov, known as Lexus

Two Russian Tu-160 strategic missile carriers have broken their own world record for non-stop flight in their class, spending more than 25 hours continuously in the air, the Russian Aerospace Forces' commander of long-range aviation Lt. Gen. Sergey Kobylash told reporters on Saturday

The UN sanctions relief for Iran agreed under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) will continue beyond September 20, a deadline unilaterally set by the United States, and any action taken to reimpose sanctions would be "incapable of having any legal effect," the UK, France and Germany the E3 group said in a letter to the UN Security Council (UNSC) president, shared with Sputnik

Azerbaijan will take additional steps to boost gas supplies to Turkey, President Ilham Aliyev said on Saturday during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Absheron gas field's offshore operations

Russia calls on the European Union to reconsider its policies towards Minsk, and believes that they lead to erosion of the fundamental rules of the international legal order and prevent the normalization of the situation in the country, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Russia was forced to create hypersonic weapons after the United States withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty) in 2002