MOSCOW

Moscow will send Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov to address the council in person on Thursday.

World leaders are meeting at the Munich Security Conference with conflict still raging almost a year after Moscow sent troops into Ukraine.

A former security guard at the UK's Berlin embassy, who pleaded guilty to spying for Moscow, faces up to 14 years in prison when he is sentenced on Friday.

Moscow said on Monday its forces had shot down a Ukrainian drone close to a long-range bomber base deep inside Russia, while Ukraine said the Russians had unleashed heavy artillery barrages on its cities in the past 24 hours.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Russia to hold demonstration against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Russia has vowed to avenge the "assassination" of Darya Dugina, the daughter of Vladimir Putin's spiritual guru Alexander Dugin.

U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths is in Moscow on Thursday and Friday to discuss clearing the way for exports of grain and other food from Ukraine's Black Sea ports, a U.N.

Investors were sent running after Putin recognised the independence of two rebel-held areas of Donetsk and Lugansk.

The mum had reportedly left a note about taking her children away with her from this "hard, gloomy world."

The channel has been banned in several countries, including the ex-Soviet republics of Lithuania and Latvia.

The gathering organised by members of the communist party was monitored by the police but there were no immediate detentions.

A government tally reported 808 fatalities over the past 24 hours -- the first time Russia has crossed the 800-mark for daily virus deaths.

A group of UN rights experts expressed alarm Wednesday over his deteriorating health.

Moscow regularly fines foreign internet companies like Twitter, Facebook and Google for failing to comply with its legislation.

The Russian foreign ministry welcomed the extension of New START and said it hoped Biden was turning the page on the "destructive US policy" of ending arms control measures.

Russian state television on Friday rejected claims that the property was owned by Putin and dismissed reports that it had an aquatic disco, showing an empty fountain at the purported site.

The jailing of Navalny after the attempt on his life proved the last straw for many.

One of the men involved in the murder has reportedly been arrested shortly after the businessman's death.

Britain, the US and Canada accused hacking group called APT29 for the online attacks on various organisations involved in COVID-19 vaccine development.

Putin has already been in power for 20 years.

Elsewhere around the globe, clusters of infection were growing as governments relaxed restrictions.