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Russian troops taking part in the country's largest-ever war games on Sept.15 held drills in the Sea of Japan, despite Tokyo's concerns about a Russian military buildup in the area.

Russian arrivals in Greece have decreased by a total of 55 percent over the last five years, falling from 1,352,000 in 2013 to 588,000 last year, while travel receipts from Russia declined from 1.3 billion euros in 2013 to 418 million in 2017, down almost 70 percent.

The Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro has commemorated the centenary of the killing of the Russian imperial family at Ekaterinburg with numerous events held under the slogan "The Romanov Family - 100 years of Holiness".

The United Kingdom has called for Turkey to show solidarity in its dispute with Russia over the attempted murder of a former Russian spy and his daughter on U.K. soil through the use of a nerve agent produced in Russia.

Russia is making a concerted "push" against the West in Balkans, but is not nearly as influential as many people think, Bulgarian expert Dimitar Bechev said on Thursday at a packed talk on his book Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe at the London School of Economics.

Senior British ministers held an urgent meeting March 7 to discuss the suspected poisoning of a former Russian spy, as tensions rise with Moscow over his collapse outside a shopping center.

A 19th-century Russian military officer who was found inside an unearthed coffin in the eastern province of Ardahan is of Polish origin and will be returned to Poland, Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has said.

Since 1980, Russia celebrates its Navy Day on the last Sunday of July. Navy Day in Russia was established in 1939. This year, the celebrations organized on the 30th of July covered the whole Russian coast line from Vladivostok in the far east to St. Petersburg in the west, from Severomorsk in the north to Sevastapol in Crimea.

The identity of a 19th-century Russian military officer who was found inside an unearthed coffin in the eastern province of Ardahan last month has been revealed, daily Habertürk reported on May 21.

The soldier was identified as Lt. Col. Karl Karlovich Rjepetsky, who was a member of the 78th Navaginsky regiment of the 20th infantry division of the 1st Caucasian Army Corps.

ST PETERSBURG - Serbia and its centuries-old partnership with Russia will be specially featured at this year's St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

The Serbian-Russian strategic partnership is based on historical, cultural and, above all, economic ties that are also a pillar of future joint projects, the organisers say.