During a briefing, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that it is necessary to stop Israeli airstrikes on Syria. A video of her speech was published on the Russian Foreign Ministry's Facebook page. 

“The practice of arbitrary strikes on the territory of a sovereign state—in this case, we are talking about Syria—should be stopped,” Zakharova stated. According to Zakharova, such strikes added to tensions in the region that were not in the long-term interests of any …

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated at a press conference with the Georgian President Salomé Zourabichvili that the North Atlantic Alliance and Georgia are concerned about Russia’s military buildup in the Black Sea region. 

"We are stepping up our cooperation at sea, including training for Georgian Coast Guard boarding teams, more cooperation between Georgian and NATO naval forces and cooperation between Georgia’s Joint Maritime Operations Centre and NATO’s Maritime Command,” …

The Russian government is preparing to privatize a number of state companies, Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The negotiations with foreign investors will be closed off to the public.

“We are working on a number of deals, working in a closed format,” TASS cites Oreshkin as saying. “When you prepare a deal, it doesn’t have to be public, we don’t need to discuss who we are negotiating with. There are a number of assets …