A report by the Russian newspaper, Sputnik showed that Equatorial Guinea would get a Russian embassy in the next few weeks as part of Russia's plan to establish a concrete presence on the continent.
His erratic behaviour and temperament earned him the epithet "the Terrible," a term more accurately translated as "the Fearsome" or "the Formidable" in Russian.
Severe financial sanctions imposed by the West on Moscow showed their impact on financial markets on Monday morning, with the Russian ruble collapsing to a record low and the Russian central bank more than doubling interest rates to 20 percent
All Russian football teams have been issued indefinite bans from international football following the invasion of Ukraine, UEFA and FIFA have announced.
Russian opposition leader and President Vladimir Putin's critic, Alexei Navalny, on Friday died at the Arctic prison colony where he was serving a 19-year jail term.