Putin has ordered the government and Sberbank, the country's largest bank, to enhance collaboration with China in the field of artificial intelligence.

Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev says the country's crashed jetliner was shot down by Russia unintentionally.

The diplomat, a woman in her 50s, died after falling from a high-rise building where she lived in the Iranian capital.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reaffirmed that the volatile situation in Syria will not affect the nature of the Iran-Russia strategic partnership and the two nations are set to sign their agreement in the near future.

The Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) says US and British special services are plotting a series of terrorist attacks against Russian military bases in Syria.

Russia says an Azerbaijan Airlines plane which crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday had decided to reroute amid dense fog and a local alert over Ukrainian drones.

Lavrov says Russia will take all necessary measures to defend its national interests amid rising tensions over Ukraine.