It has been a good week for Russian soft power in the sporting world. On Tuesday (22 September) in Brussels, the EU lifted a visa-ban on a portly 73-year-old Russian billionaire, Alisher Usmanov, who is head of the International Fencing Federation. And on Saturday in Samarkand, FIDE, the world ches»»»

The court described the offense as a “political crime.” A Brussels court sentenced Belgian-Russian national Victor Labin on Thursday to five years in prison for illegally exporting dual-use goods and chemicals to Russia. Judges found that Labin had played a central role in shipping more than 400 to»»»

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on Tuesday responded to EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas' remarks on the European Union's participation in the May 9 celebrations in Moscow by saying he will attend the event and that no one can forbid him from doing so. "I will travel to Mosc»»»