Sharaa, travelled to Moscow for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, in the first face-to-face contact the pair have had.

Kyiv and Moscow have offered contrasting responses after Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Russia's biggest oil firms in a major shift of policy. Meanwhile, NATO jets are scrambled after Russian military aircraft briefly enter Lithuanian airspace.

Russian women were early to feminism. Now, though, their vision of liberation can look strangely like the domestic trap they were supposed to escape.

Syria’s interim leader, who led a swift rebel offensive last year that ousted former Syrian President Bashar Assad despite years of Moscow’s support, made his first visit to Russia and held talks with President Vladimir Putin.

As part of the Made in Russia forum, a business dialogue dedicated to strengthening Moscow's trade and economic relations with the countries of the Persian Gulf took place in the Russian capital, the press service of the Moscow Department of Investment and Industrial Policy reported.

In response to the statement from the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that it will not allow Putin to fly over the country’s airspace, Moscow declared that this is an act of hatred.

ALMATY — Kazakh Minister of Foreign Affairs Yermek Kosherbayev paid an official visit to Russia on Oct. 22 at the invitation of his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to discuss the Kazakh-Russian strategic partnership.

The Rev. Tricia Tedrow was installed as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Moscow on Oct. 12. She is the first woman to lead the congregation in its 145-year history. Tedrow has been preaching and serving the community since August. “It’s a celebration that the search process is over and we’ve found each other,” Tedrow said.