On 15th January, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia web page published the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergey Lavrov’s statements and answers to questions to media made at a press conference on the results of Russian diplomacy in 2017 in Moscow on January 15, 2018.

More than 100 Rohingya Muslims have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar since Wednesday, with the latest refugees saying army operations are continuing in troubled Rakhine State, raising doubts about plans to send back 655,500 who had already fled.

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As reported by Reuters recently School students in Linxia county in Gansu province, home to many members of the Muslim Hui ethnic minority, are prohibited from entering religious buildings on winter break, a district education bureau said, as authorities step up control of religious education. Students must also not read scriptures in classes or in religious buildings,