Vladimir Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin will be visiting Greece May 27-28, the Kremlin has announced.

In Athens, he will meet with President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

Hundreds of Bulgarians laid wreaths in front of the Soviet Army Monument in the capital Sofia to mark Victory Day on Monday.

Wreaths were officially laid by embassies of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Venezuela, Vietnam, the Palestinian Authority, China, Kazakhstan, Syria, Pakistan, and Cuba.

A Russian orchestra conducted a concert, dubbed ‘With a Prayer for Palmyra’, in Syria’s ancient Roman amphitheatre in Palmyra, just a few weeks after it was recaptured from ISIS.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is arriving in Greece on May 28, with the main subject topping his agenda being the promotion of a new conduit for the transmission of Russian natural gas via Bulgaria and Greece, including the utilization of the plan for the Interconnector Greece-Italy (IGI) pipeline.

Turkish construction firm Cengiz is in talks about buying up to 49 percent of the $20 billion Akkuyu nuclear power plant being built by Russia's Rosatom, a source familiar with the matter said on April 27.

Russian energy giant Gazprom has tabled a new option to revive the South Stream pipeline, local media report.

Alternative routes are being studied for South Stream and Nord Stream II which would possibly use private funding, instead of counting on EU support, Vesti Finance quotes Andrey Konoplyanik, adviser to the head of Gazprom Export, as saying.

U.S. President Barack Obama said April 25 that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was trying to undermine European unity, which he sees as a threat.

Speaking to CBS News in an interview set to air on April 26, Obama said Europe's migrant crisis was also a problem for the United States.

U.S. President Barack Obama has accused his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of attempting to undermine "European unity."

Putin sees this unity as a threat, Obama told CBS in an interview that will air on Tuesday, AFP reported.

BELGRADE - Former head of American diplomacy Madeleine Albright believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "smart, but very evil man", and that Russia is a country that provokes, and then feels offended.

Bulgaria's biggest opposition party BSP on Friday signed an agreement to cooperate with A Just Russia (Spravedlivaya Rossiya), a left-wing party.

Mihail Mikov, the head of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) is on a visit to Moscow with a party delegation earlier this week and is attending Spravedlivaya Rossiya's April 22-23 congress.