The key task of the West is to overthrow Vladimir Putin from his post, it is for these purposes that foreign curators provoked the start of a special operation, economist Mikhail Khazin said.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the issue of abolishing the Russian border with Zaporozhye was not raised, RIA Novosti writes.

The US and the European Union are putting unprecedented pressure on Serbia to force Belgrade to forgo good relations with Russia in favor of integration with the West.

Assistants to State Duma deputies were advised not to travel abroad during the holidays, Vedomosti writes, citing four sources.