Sharaa, travelled to Moscow for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, in the first face-to-face contact the pair have had.

President Donald Trump hit Russia's two biggest oil companies with sanctions in his latest sharp policy shift on Moscow's war in Ukraine, prompting global oil prices to rise by 3% on Thursday and India to consider cutting Russian imports.

Kyiv and Moscow have offered contrasting responses after Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Russia's biggest oil firms in a major shift of policy. Meanwhile, NATO jets are scrambled after Russian military aircraft briefly enter Lithuanian airspace.

President Donald Trump says Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has personally assured him that India will stop buying Russian oil

Russian women were early to feminism. Now, though, their vision of liberation can look strangely like the domestic trap they were supposed to escape.

As part of the Made in Russia forum, a business dialogue dedicated to strengthening Moscow's trade and economic relations with the countries of the Persian Gulf took place in the Russian capital, the press service of the Moscow Department of Investment and Industrial Policy reported.

Syria’s interim leader, who led a swift rebel offensive last year that ousted former Syrian President Bashar Assad despite years of Moscow’s support, made his first visit to Russia and held talks with President Vladimir Putin.

In response to the statement from the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that it will not allow Putin to fly over the country’s airspace, Moscow declared that this is an act of hatred.