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The United States has made "a substantial offer" to Moscow to bring home U.S. citizens detained in Russia, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday, adding that he would be pressing his Russian counterpart in a planned conversation in the coming days to respond to the offer.

Russia and Myanmar are to deepen their defence cooperation after a meeting in Moscow between Myanmar's military leader, Min Aung Hlaing, and top Russian defence officials, Russia's Defence Ministry said on Tuesday.

A Russian scientist who was arrested in Siberia last week on suspicion of state treason and flown to Moscow despite suffering from advanced pancreatic cancer has died, lawyers and a family member said on Sunday.

Pope Francis said he hopes to be able to go to Moscow and Kyiv as soon as possible after a visit to Canada later this month, during an exclusive interview with Reuters on Saturday.

Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt met Russian Ambassador to Thailand Evgeny Tomikhin at City Hall earlier this week to mark 125 years of bilateral ties and the 25th anniversary of Bangkok and Moscow becoming twin cities.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Thursday said he had urged G7 leaders to ensure that sanctions imposed on Russia did not affect the global supply of food and fertiliser.

Russia's threat to punish Lithuania over blocked rail shipments to Moscow's enclave of Kaliningrad jangled nerves on Tuesday for residents living just across the border who put faith in Nato membership to thwart any potential military action.

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that no Iron Curtain would fall over the Russian economy, despite the sanctions imposed by the West, because Moscow would not close itself off from the world as the Soviet Union did.

Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia stormed out of a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday as European Council President Charles Michel addressed the 15-member body and accused Moscow of fueling the global food crisis with its invasion of Ukraine.

The Management Board of the President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and the All-Russian Research Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (VILAR) reviewed their 30-year partnership in ensuring the preservation and safety of the body of President Ho Chi Minh at a conference in Moscow on Monday.

Ukraine on Saturday ruled out agreeing to a ceasefire with Russia and said Kyiv would not accept any deal with Moscow that involved ceding territory.

Japan will take time to phase out Russian oil imports after agreeing on a ban with other Group of Seven (G7) nations to counter Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday (May 9).