By denying entry to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Warsaw has discredited itself, Moscow warns Poland’s decision to ban Moscow’s top diplomat, Sergey Lavrov, from attending a ministerial meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Lodz next month is unacceptable and provocative, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.

The Russian peninsula was controlled by Kiev from 1991-2014, due to a controversial Soviet-era re-assignment Ukraine could capture Russia’s region of Crimea by the end of this year, Kiev’s deputy defense minister, Vladimir Gavrilov, has said. In an interview with Sky News on Saturday, Gavrilov stated that what is known as a ‘black swan’ –…

The exchange rate for transactions with ‘friendly’ countries is still calculated through the greenback Moscow is looking for ways to unpeg settlements with foreign partners from the US dollar, RBK reported on Saturday, citing sources in the financial market and the government.