The recently-passed Australian law aimed at making tech giants Google and Facebook pay media companies for their content is part of an overall global trend exhibited by governments to regulate their domestic sections of the world wide web, experts told Sputnik

The recently-passed Australian law aimed at making tech giants Google and Facebook pay media companies for their content is part of an overall global trend exhibited by governments to regulate their domestic sections of the world wide web, experts told Sputnik

Russia can switch to the "active containment" policy if Washington does not abandon its hostile policy of putting pressure on Moscow, deputy foreign minister Sergey Ryabkov said in an interview with Sputnik

Sane US military leaders are unlikely to consider the possibility of a nuclear war with Russia, Russian Ambassador in the United States Anatoly Antonov said on Wednesday

Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed the belief on Wednesday that Western media outlets' reports about alleged double or even triple poisoning of Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny were unethical and showcased the unwillingness to establish facts

The accusations by the United States against Russia of malign activities in the cybersphere are unsubstantiated, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said

If the health of Russian opposition blogger Alexey Navalny worsens during his treatment in Germany, Russia will not be able to rule out that it was a German-staged provocation, Vyacheslav Volodin, the head of the Russian parliament's lower house, said on Thursday