Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, the father and coach of UFC champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, died on Friday at the age of 57 after a long battle with coronavirus-related health complications

Ukraine has seen a record spike in COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, with the total tally of infected persons surging by 994 to 40,008, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said on Thursday

US citizen Paul Whelan, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison in Russia on espionage charges, will not appeal the court's ruling and will wait for the exchange instead, Whelan's lawyer, Vladimir Zherebenkov, told Sputnik on Tuesday

Podgorica's attacks on the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) are part of a bigger problem of Montenegro attempting to create a new national identity based on Serbophobia, Serbian Ambassador to Russia Miroslav Lazanski told Sputnik in an interview

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday thanked the country's medical workers for their work, saying that their service throughout the coronavirus pandemic is of historic significance matching up to the most difficult war periods