Denmark’s parliament decided on Sunday, January 28 to increase the country’s military expenditure by 12.8 billion crowns or USD 2.14 billion over the next six years. "The threat posed by Russia is real and increasing, so we must show determination in strengthening our defense capacity, and we are determined," said Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Reuters reports.

The budget will be used for the fight against cyber threats and for financing Denmark's international operations. …

Despite sanctions, Russia and the U.S. will not curtail cooperation in the space sector said Russia’s Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, speaking about RD-180 rocket engines, Interfax reports.

“We are conducting ourselves properly in relation to other countries and will carry out the obligations to which we have agreed. I don’t think we need to stop delivery of these engines. I think we’ll continue to ship them,” said the security official.

When the very first sanctions against …

The United States of America has begun preparations to supply the Javelin anti-tank missile system to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said confirms Kurt Volker, the special representative of the U.S. State Department for Ukraine, in an exclusive interview with Radio Liberty.

“I want to point out that this is defensive equipment. It is useful only when there is a tank attack. Then they can be neutralized. So it is a defensive weapon. It is not used to attack and not used on the front line of a …

A delegation from the presidential committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is ready to visit Moscow after Russia’s presidential elections on March 18, Dutch Senator Tiny Kox, a member of the committee, told RBC news agency.

“I suppose that we will not be able to go before the presidential elections, because we do not want to interfere in the electoral process,” Kox noted.

As part of the winter session of the PACE which took place between January 22 and 26 an …

US Ambassador to Russia John Huntsman called on Moscow to perceive the so-called "Kremlin report" based on its "real, not contrived meaning and without emotions." Relations between the two countries are far from being exhausted by this legal act, he told Interfax.

Huntsman reminded that six months ago, Congress voted to strengthen sanctions against Russia by a majority vote, so there will be no surprises on January 29. He added that this is the implementation of the results of the vote, which …

On Sunday, January 28, more than a hundred Russian cities saw protests organized by opposition leader Alexei Navalny in support of a “voter strike”, a strategy to boycott the upcoming presidential elections.  The Interior Ministry and the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights estimated that there were 4,500-5,000 protesters across the country, whereas Navalny’s supporters believe that there were considerably more. In Moscow the calculation is further complicated by the fact …

Starbucks Company denied statements made by Vitali Klitschko regarding their plans to enter the Ukrainian market, as stated by InfoResist citing the European office of the company.

“Currently we are not planning to open Starbucks coffee shops in Ukraine,” answered the representatives of Starbucks.

As was stated earlier by the Mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, Starbucks was considering entering the Ukrainian market.

Starbucks Corporation is an American chain store coffee house company. As of …

The Ukrainian State Migration Service has started verification of all persons who received Ukrainian citizenship during Ukraine's independence, said First Deputy Head of the State Migration Service Maxim Sokolyuk, UNIAN reports.

According to Sokolyuk, there are cases when the courts have made decisions on Ukrainian citizenship based on fake certificates of residency in Ukraine that were issued by migration service officials prior to 1991.

"Work has begun on the full verification of the …