The Investigative Committee of Russia has initiated 196 criminal cases against Ukrainian military personnel since 2014, as stated by the Head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, the authority's website reported.

"From 2014 to the present, 196 criminal cases have been instituted on which 127 persons shall face criminal proceedings. Among them are high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, including Ukrainian Minister of Defense [Stepan] Poltorak and his …

Ukraine is restarting the program to construct corvette class ships, with a budget allocation of 32 billion hryvnia ($1.20 billion USD). The decision was made by the Cabinet of Ministers.

The program will entail the construction of four ships of the Vladimir Velikiy class. The construction of the first ship will resume as early as 2018, and 1.4 billion hryvnia ($50 million USD) has been allocated to this. It is expected to join Ukraine’s naval forces in 2022. The second, third and fourth …

The problem of revoking Russian citizenship of many people in the Crimea and Sevastopol can be solved within the framework of passport amnesty, as stated to journalists in Sevastopol by Russia's Commissioner for Human Rights, Tatyana Moskalkova, Kryminform reports.

"We have cases where the citizenship of people who live in Sevastopol and the Crimea has been revoked and I have received these appeals. I, in turn, appealed to the Russian government to conduct a comprehensive verification of these …

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that he discussed the detention of journalist Pavlo Sharoyko on suspicion of espionage with the Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko in the beginning of November in the UAE.

"He [Poroshenko] asked me this question. And I told him the facts. I admitted to him that from the first until the last day of the operation to neutralize the spy network, I was in the know. This practice was immediately reported to me by the chairman of the KGB," Belta quotes …

The Chechen Republic (Chechnya) natives sentenced to prison for the murder of prominent opposition leader, Boris Nemtsov, are not guilty, according to a statement made by the Head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, in an interview with to Russia-1.

“According to the information I have they are not guilty. And that’s why I continue to insist that this is not just. Somebody was score-settling, killed Nemtsov, and shifted all the blame on Kadyrov. And now they say this rubbish: Kadyrov …

Newsmaker.md news agency, citing the press service of the Moldovan Parliament, reports that the permanent bureau of the Moldovan parliament has decided neither to send MPs nor to allocate budgetary funds for a meeting of the Moldovan-Russian Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group in Moscow.

According to Newsmaker, those MPs wishing to go are invited to go at their own expense and without an official mandate from the Parliament.

The possible participation of some deputies will be carried out at …

The European Union will increase the funding of the working group that works on countering Russian disinformation and monitors the news on Russian media. Starting in 2018, 1.1 million euros will be allocated for these purposes annually for three years from the budget of the EU, Voice of America reports.

The operational working group on strategic communications East StratCom Task Force was established in March 2015 by the decision of the heads of states and government of the countries of the …

The EU asserted that the “foreign agent” media law, signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on November 25th, runs counter to Russia’s obligations to uphold human rights and threatens “free and independent media.”

This is another attempt to hinder the development of a civil society in the country, said the European Union External Action on Sunday, November 26.

In Brussels, they are sure that as a result of “fines, checks, and the stigma” associated with the implementation of the law, “the …