Russia

US Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for crucial talks in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi on May 12 amid tensions with Moscow over Ukraine, both sides said.

Russia's Victory Day parade on May 9 reflects mass attitudes in the country, Grigori Nedyalkov, a Bulgarian journalist, has said.

Thousands of Russian troops marched across Red Square, tanks rumbled through the streets and jets screamed overhead on May 9 in a huge military parade marking the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany. 

Russia's space agency Roscosmos has confirmed that its crippled unmanned cargo spacecraft Progress will disintegrate Thursday night or early Friday morning, RIA Novosti reported.

According to Roscosmos, the stricken spacecraft was expected to burn up on re-entry in the Earth's atmosphere with just a few small pieces likely to survive the heat to hit planet's surface.

An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft ferrying supplies to the International Space Station is plunging back to Earth and apparently out of control, an official said on April 29.

The Russian Justice Ministry revoked the registration of the Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny's Party of Progress on Tuesday.

The ministry decided to declare the document of the party's state registration invalid and to exclude information on the party and its structural divisions from the Uniform State Register of Legal Entities.

Poland denied entry of ten Russian Night Wolves bikers, who are traveling from Moscow to Berlin to commemorate the 70thanniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.

A spokesman for the Polish border guards stated that the bikers would not be allowed to pass through Polish territory as they did not fulfill the conditions for entry, TASS news agency reports.

Putin on Crimea: Historical injustice corrected

MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin says he does not regret that Crimea became a part of Russia in 2014 "because historical injustice was corrected" in this way.

"Washington expects long-term confrontation with Russia"

ROME, MOSCOW -- The U.S. "expects the ongoing confrontation with Russia to continue until at least 2024 and involve many directions," RT is reporting.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on April 21 Russia was suffering significant economic problems because of international sanctions, but the situation could have been much worse and Russia was adapting.