A criminal case was launched into a topless protest by the Femen group in the German city of Hanover, targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, the local HAZ newspaper said on Monday.
Syrian authorities reject an “additional demand” by the UN to let its investigative mission to operate across the entire Syrian territory, the state-run Syrian news agency SANA reported on Monday in its Russian-language section.
US officials said Monday they have asked Russia and China – two North Korean allies – for help in getting Pyongyang to back off the escalating rhetoric and inflammatory actions that have alarmed its neighbors and prompted the Pentagon to heighten its military readiness.
Russian officials who are slapped with Magnitsky Act sanctions this week may have seen their dim prospects for recourse in US courts brighten thanks to US President Barack Obama.