The RIA Novosti media group has joined the Light It Up Blue international campaign to raise awareness of autism.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday the possible establishment of a Russian airbase in Belarus should not be seen as a response to US missile defense plans in Europe.
Suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev traveled to Russia last year with an interest in taking up jihad and contacting fundamentalist Islamic groups in the country’s restive North Caucasus region, some of whom viewed his outreach with suspicion and consternation, US media reported Friday.
Astronauts in the US section of the International Space Station (ISS) were preparing for a possible spacewalk to inspect and fix an ammonia leak in a cooling loop, NASA said Friday, hours after the leak was detected.
The Russian and British security services will cooperate in the build-up to the Winter Olympics in Sochi next year, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday.