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President Zelenskyy said that a ceasefire could have already been reached, but Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly rejected it.

The travel plans of Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump will not overlap when Putin travels to France next week, the Kremlin said on Friday.

Among those named by the ICIJ and fellow media groups for their offshore dealings are relatives of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, close associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, and Barcelona striker Lionel Messi.

Speaking after a four-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Moscow and Washington would try in the next few days to nudge Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to "make the right decision" about committing fully to peace talks.

President Vladimir Putin called Tuesday on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to lend an additional USD 3 billion to Ukraine to help the ex-Soviet country pay off its debt to Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that a new BRICS bank would become fully operational and finance energy projects next year as emerging markets attempt to challenge the Western-dominated financial system.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government courted Beijing on Wednesday before a BRICS summit, playing down a stock market plunge in China and proposing better terms for investors from Beijing.

The BRICS emerging economies will launch a development bank at a summit this week which President Vladimir Putin hopes will help reduce Western dominance of world financial institutions and show Moscow is not isolated.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday told Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras he supported Greeks in overcoming the "difficulties" they faced after their resounding `No` to creditors` bailout terms, the Kremlin said.

The World Bank on Monday said it saw some improvement in Russia`s battered economy, predicting it would shrink by 2.7 percent this year and return to growth of 0.7 percent in 2016.

The International Monetary Fund on Thursday announced a less pessimistic forecast for Russia`s economy, predicting no more than 3.4 percent contraction in 2015 and emergence from recession in 2016.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Friday he was cutting his salary by 10 percent as well as the earnings of several top government officials, as the country`s economy reels from the collapse of the ruble.

Russia announced a $35 billion "anti-crisis" spending plan on Wednesday to bail out an economy battered by Western sanctions and falling oil prices, but gave few details of the deep cuts it said would be enacted this year to pay for it.

Russia's economy shrank sharply in November and the rouble resumed its slide on Monday as Western sanctions and a slump in oil prices combined to inflict the first contraction in GDP since the global financial crisis.

Their international competitors may be cheering tumbling oil prices, but the collapse in the ruble has meant major financial turbulence for Russian airlines who have expenses in foreign currencies.

The struggling Russian unit was at 61.59 to the dollar after plunging to 80 earlier in the week, and at 74.21 against the euro after previously hitting 100.

The sharp fall in oil prices and Western sanctions could combine to drive a five percent contraction of the Russian economy next year, an economist warned Wednesday.

Russia stepped up its defence of the ruble on Wednesday as it sought to halt a run on the currency and stem the worst financial crisis of President Vladimir Putin`s 15 years in power.

The two sides agreed to step up efforts for enhancing bilateral trade in goods and services and set a target of USD 30 billion by 2025, it said adding "it is expected that the level of mutual investments by then will be over USD 15 billion each way."

In one of the biggest oil deals, Essar Group Thursday signed a USD 10 billion contract to import crude oil from Russia over a 10-year period.