A leading Kalmyk activist whom Mongolian officials did not allow to enter their country because his Russian passport had expired has left Ulan Bator international airport for the United States.
Russia will only agree to extend a deal under which Ukraine is able to export grain from its Black Sea ports if doing so is in Moscow’s interests, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a March 1 statement.
A prosecutor asked Moscow’s Timiryazev district court on March 1 to sentence Dmitry Ivanov, the administrator of the Protesting MGU (Moscow State University) Telegram channel, to nine years in prison on a charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces.