President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia’s ties with Japan were moving forward as he met with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the latest bid to make progress on a decades-old territorial dispute. The meeting follows on from Putin’s first visit to Japan in 11 years last December, when the ...
A Russian navy ship sank off the coast of Turkey on Thursday after colliding with another vessel but its crew was rescued, Turkish coastguards said. “The Russian ship sank after the collision. All of the crew on board were rescued,” a coastguard official told AFP, requesting anonymity.
