Politics of Russia

Dacic has been given this award for his merits in strengthening friendship and cooperation between the two countries.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained by police on Thursday but then released a short while later, weeks ahead of a presidential election in which he has been barred from running, writes Reuters.

This is a rare example of any two nations in the world, the Serbian president said.

"We want to continue work on strengthening this tradition in all possible ways for the benefit of present and future generations of our countries," the Serbian and Russian foreign ministers said in a joint article published by Politika in Serbia, and by Rossiyskaya Gazeta in Russia.

The University of the Peloponnese has postponed plans to award Russian President Vladimir Putin an honorary doctorate next week, Kathimerini has learnt.

Sources said the ceremony, which had been planned to take place in Kalamata next Thursday, was postponed because Putin could not attend the event.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is to be awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of the Peloponnese in southern Greece.

The ceremony is due to take place next Thursday, February 22, but Putin will not attend in person.

The Russian ambassador to Greece, Andrei Maslov, will represent Putin at the ceremony and deliver a speech on Greek-Russian ties.

Russia said on Tuesday that it had the right to put weapons anywhere it chose on its own territory after reports that Moscow had deployed nuclear-capable Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad drew criticism from its neighbors and NATO, Deutsche Welle reports. 

The U.S. Treasury Department named yesterday major Russian businessmen including the heads of the two biggest banks, metals magnates and the boss of the state gas monopoly on a list of oligarchs close to the Kremlin.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been released after he was arrested Sunday during anti-Kremlin protests in Moscow, according to his official Twitter account.

The campaign website of Russian President Vladimir Putin who will be running for the nation's highest office as an independent candidate this coming March got started at putin2018.ru.

According to Elena Shmeleva, co-chair of Putin's campaign office, plans are to make this website as informative and convenient as possible.