Putin has ordered the government and Sberbank, the country's largest bank, to enhance collaboration with China in the field of artificial intelligence.

Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev says the country's crashed jetliner was shot down by Russia unintentionally.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reaffirmed that the volatile situation in Syria will not affect the nature of the Iran-Russia strategic partnership and the two nations are set to sign their agreement in the near future.

The Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) says US and British special services are plotting a series of terrorist attacks against Russian military bases in Syria.

Russia says an Azerbaijan Airlines plane which crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday had decided to reroute amid dense fog and a local alert over Ukrainian drones.

Lavrov says Russia will take all necessary measures to defend its national interests amid rising tensions over Ukraine.

Russia has called on the IAEA to uphold impartiality in monitoring Iran’s nuclear facilities and refrain from politicizing the Islamic Republic’s nuclear case.

Russian air forces destroyed 42 Ukrainian drones over five regions in the country, says the defense ministry.

Ukraine will eventually be forced to make territorial concessions to settle the conflict with Russia, a new report by an American news outlet says.

Russian authorities say they have arrested a suspect over the assassination of the head of the country's army’s chemical weapons division.