Sputnik - According to Mehdi Sanai, Iran's ambassador to Russia, the European Union is continuing to strive to develop a financial and economic plan for trade cooperation with Iran; this mechanism will be launched in November 2018. Nikolai Kozhanov, an orientalist, expert onIran and associate professor atthe European University ofSt. Petersburg,...

Sputnik - With Iran voting in presidential elections on Friday, many continue to speculate on Moscow's position on the matter; Russian political analyst Nikolai Kozhanov, for his part, said that actually, Moscow isn't taking a side. In an interview with Sputnik Persian, Russian political analyst Nikolai Kozhanov said that Moscow is not particularly ...