Egypt and Russia's defense ministers have discussed military collaboration between their countries, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday during a landmark visit to Cairo.

Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu led a high-level delegation on a visit that came in the wake of a diplomatic spat between Egypt and long-time ally the United States triggered by the ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.

Russian police on Wednesday arrested three far-right protesters for pelting the Polish embassy with smoke bombs in response to a nationalist riot outside Russia's diplomatic compound in Warsaw.

Supporters of the Other Russia organization that unites small anti-Kremlin opposition groups also unfurled a black banner reading "Russia from Warsaw to Port Arthur" before being detained by the police.

China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Cuba won seats on the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday, despite fierce criticism of their records from rights campaigners.

The U.N. General Assembly elected 14 seats on the 47-member council which is taking on increased diplomatic importance because of the Syria war and other conflicts.

A Moscow court on Tuesday froze the assets of protest leader Alexei Navalny as part of an investigation into alleged fraud and money laundering by him and his brother Oleg.

The Basmanny District Court agreed with a petition by investigators and "ordered a freeze on assets belonging to the two brothers Navalny," spokeswoman Natalia Romanova told AFP.

Poland was in hot water on Tuesday after ultra-nationalist rioters went on the rampage outside the Russian embassy in Warsaw, igniting a diplomatic row with Moscow.

The violence, which marred Polish independence day on Monday, reflects growing far-right and anti-Russian sentiment in Poland, an ex-communist country and European Union member.

A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of far eastern Russia Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

It said the quake hit about 170 kilometers (100 miles) off the Kamchatka Peninsula, at a depth of 47 kilometers (33 miles).

Russia successfully launched a Proton-M rocket carrying a military satellite in the early hours of Tuesday from its Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The launch took place at 03:46 Moscow time (23:46 GMT) carrying a satellite for the Russian defense ministry, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said.

A Moscow region court on Monday sentenced three men to life in prison for their roles in a 2011 suicide bombing attack on a major Russian airport that killed 37 people.

The January 2011 Domodedovo International Airport strike was claimed by the Caucasus Emirate movement of Islamist warlord Doku Umarov.

Russia moved the crew of a Greenpeace Arctic protest ship from the northern port of Murmansk on Monday and put them on a train to Saint Petersburg, the organisation said.

The 28 activists and two reporters, arrested in September after protesting against oil exploration in the Barents Sea, left their detention centre at 5:00 am (0100 GMT) and are now on a train, said Greenpeace spokeswoman Dannielle Taaffe.

Syria's splintered opposition coalition insisted Saturday it would not go to peace talks in Geneva unless pressure was brought to bear on Damascus to abide by the outcome.

"We have always said that we are fully committed to Geneva. But we are worried that if we go there the Assad regime is not serious about the implementation of Geneva," said coalition spokesman Khaled Saleh.