Spain’s Sandra Sanchez – The reigning World and European women’s kata champion – continued her love affair with Dubai, winning her fourth consecutive gold at the Karate 1-Premier League Dubai, the second leg of world karate’s seven-stop series of premier international events

The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is likely to remain underutilized for at least several years of operation due to the latest amendments to the EU gas directive, Russian media reported on Monday

Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak has voiced his concern over the rise of nationalism in Ukraine, linked in particular to the glorification of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, Slovak Foreign Ministry spokesman Boris Gandel told Sputnik

Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Slovakian Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak, told his Ukrainian counterpart Pavlo Klimkin during a meeting on Sunday in Brussels that the refusal of the Ukrainian authorities to allow Russian observers to the elections was contrary to the principles and commitments of OSCE member states, Slovak Foreign Ministry spokesman Boris Gandel told Sputnik

Thomas Greminger, the secretary general of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), told Sputnik on Saturday that he hopes for the upcoming presidential election in Ukraine to be internationally observed in full compliance with the set standards

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Saturday said she met with Ukraine's former prime minister and now presidential hopeful Yulia Tymoshenko on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference and discussed anti-corruption reforms in the east European country, stressing the importance of macroeconomic reforms under the Stand-By Arrangement for economic aid

The proposal of US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker to hold elections in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region under the auspices of the United Nations contradicts the Minsk agreements, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Saturday

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko thanked Europe on Saturday for supporting reforms in Ukraine

The European Union has already adopted the decision on new sanctions against Russia over the Kerch Strait incident, Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl told Sputnik on Saturday