MOSCOW, Dec 29 — Russia wants to resolve the Ukraine situation and end the war as soon as possible, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday.

BRUSSELS, Dec 14 — The European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) meet for their first summit on Wednesday to deepen economic ties, with European leaders pressing for firm, shared language critical of Russia.

SHAH ALAM, Nov 18 — A family member of a victim who perished in the MH17 aircraft that was shot down by a Russian made missile in 2014, accepted the verdict by a Dutch court today which found three of the four accused guilty.

PHNOM PENH, Nov 12 — Southeast Asian heads of government were due to hold talks on Saturday with visiting global leaders, including US President Joe Biden, as the region tries to navigate the growing rivalry between China and Western powers.

PHNOM PENH, Nov 12 — Ukraine's foreign minister on Saturday urged Southeast Asian countries to take all measures possible to stop Russia from playing 'hunger games' over a Ukrainian Black Sea grain deal, which could expire next week.

JAKARTA, Nov 1 — Russia and Asean countries have expressed the need to advance and expand energy, technological and industrial cooperation in the energy industry.

NEW YORK, Sept 25 — Any follow-up action by Malaysia regarding the downing of MH17 will only be made after the court in the Netherlands delivers the verdict on the case on November 17.

REUTERS, Sept 12 — Indonesian President Joko Widodo is considering joining India and China in buying Russian oil to offset the increasing pressure of rising energy costs, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 7 — The ringgit opened at its lowest level versus the US dollar since the Asian financial crisis back in 1998, as more investors shifted to safe havens due to the uncertain global economic outlook.

REUTERS, Aug 19 — Military-ruled Myanmar plans to import Russian gasoline and fuel oil to ease supply concerns and rising prices, a junta spokesperson said, the latest developing country to do so amid a global energy crisis.

ISTANBUL, July 31 — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ordered the evacuation of the city of Donetsk on Saturday amid the war with Russia, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported according to the country’s presidency.

BIRMINGHAM, July 28 — The visa approval status of two national gymnastics coaches for the 2022 Birmingham commonwealth Games,who are Russian citizens, is now in question.

MOSCOW, June 28 — Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted an invitation to take part in the G20 summit in Indonesia in November, his aide announced Monday.

SINGAPORE, June 20 — China's crude oil imports from Russia soared 55 per cent from a year earlier to a record level in May, displacing Saudi Arabia as the top supplier, as refiners cashed in on discounted supplies amid sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.

MOSCOW, June 12 — A more contagious subvariant of the COVID-19 Omicron strain has slipped into Russia, Sputnik reported, quoting a senior official at the national consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor.

NEW YORK, June 9 — The world is facing a cost-of-living crisis unseen in at least a generation, partly due to the Ukraine conflict, said a UN report on Wednesday.

BRUSSELS, May 31 — European Union (EU) countries agreed late Monday to reduce the amount of oil purchased from Russia by 90 per cent by the end of this year.

WASHINGTON, April 8 — The UN General Assembly voted Thursday to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council (HRC) after evidence emerged of apparent mass atrocities carried out by Moscow's forces.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 — Malaysia’s Leading Index (LI), a predictive tool used to anticipate economic upturns and downturns in an average of four to six months ahead, has indicated that the country’s economic growth momentum will be a little slower due to geopolitical conflict, among others.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 — The ringgit opened little changed against the US dollar today amid positive United States (US) economic data, an analyst said.