Russia

New transatlantic project involves the construction of a superhighway between the US and Great Britain passing through Russia, as reported by CNN.

The highway will most probably be 20,000 kilometers long, with starting point in Great Britain and then local stops in Berlin and all across Russia, and will have its last stop in Alaska, USA.

Russia's food safety watchdog is considering a ban on fruits and vegetables imports from Serbia on suspicions that apples arriving from the country are originally from Poland.

Rosselhoznadzor, cited by Russian news agency RIA Novosti, has voiced its concerns over the sharp increase in apples imports and has demanded consultations with Belgrade over the issue.

Russians "could lose patience and ban fruit imports"

Belgrade, Moscow -- Russia's food safety agency Rosselkhoznadzor suspects that Serbia is re-exporting apples produced in Poland.

Russia is using natural gas as a political tool and the United States needs to know if it is ?on the same page? with Turkey regarding Russia?s actions, a top U.S. energy envoy has said.

?What Europe desperately needs is the diversification of resources,? Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein told Hürriyet in a recent interview.

The West should consider using all its tools to help Ukraine, including sending defensive weapons, NATO's top military commander said on March 22.
   
Officials in Washington have been discussing whether to send weapons to Ukraine's military to help them fight pro-Russian separatists who NATO says are armed and supported by Moscow.
   

Russia is ready to mass produce their supersonic transport plane, despite US officials thinking that this can never happen.

According to the Kremlin, the Russian arms industry designed and is ready to produce their new transport plane, dubbed the PAK TA. Moscow claims that 80 of these massive supersonic warplanes will be roaming the skies by 2024.

The United Kingdom believes the annexation of Crimea by Russia was illegal and illegitimate and it remains so one year after it happened, British ambassador in Romania Paul Brummell tells AGERPRES in a recent interview.

Photo credit: (c) Angelo BREZOIANU / AGERPRES PHOTO

By Stathis Kousounis

Tourism bookings from Russia this season have so far shown a massive yearly decline of 50 to 60 percent at Greece?s popular destinations, according to the president of the Association of Hellenic Tourism Enterprises (SETE), Andreas Andreadis.

According to the latest survey of Alpha Research, the majority of Bulgarians - 61 % oppose the imposition of new sanctions against Russia, while 39 % support their extension.

The survey, which was released on Monday, examines the social attitudes of Bulgarians on the country's foreign policy, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the national security.

The Russian president has been out of sight since his meeting with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on March 5.

Then, on Thursday, representative Dmitry Peskov assured the world that the Russian president is well and that there is “no need to worry, everything is all right,” while he even made a joke about the president’s handshake being so strong that it could “break your hand”.