Russian President Vladimir Putin said that a formal meeting with Donald Trump on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Vietnam did not take place due to “protocol clashes”, and that the relevant team members would be punished, Interfax reports.

“As for an individual meeting, firstly, it was related to Mr Trump’s work schedule, and my schedule, and certain protocol formalities, which our team was regrettably unable to handle. Well, they will be punished for this,” Putin said.

“Nothing serious …

The Director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, Volodymyr Viatrovych, was banned from entering Poland.

As Glavred news website reports, the historian himself considered this decision "a slap in the face of the whole Ukraine."

"It is not my personal problem. The problem is that the reason for banning my entry to Poland, in fact, is because of my demand, as an official, to our Polish partners to comply with Ukrainian legislation in Ukraine. That type of rationale is something …

The Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw admitted it legally revoked the EU legal residence of the MIA (International News Agency) Russia Today journalist, Leonid Sviridov, RIA Novosti reported.

The decision of the provincial administrative court is not final and can be challenged in the Higher Provincial Court of Poland. The court documents regarding the Russian journalist are classified.

During the court hearing, Sviridov's lawyer, Yaroslav Helstovsky, asked to see the case materials, …

President Petro Poroshenko said that the reform of secondary education will lead to every Ukrainian being able to speak the Ukrainian language, during a speech at a forum of local communities, 112 Ukraine writes.

"We have adopted new and ambitious reforms of the educational system, which is doing very important work. It not only makes the education process modern, interactive, and flexible, but there is one more important thing - we are returning the use of the Ukrainian language to Ukrainians …

The Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), Vladislav Deynego has agreed to rename the LPR, TSN news reports.

“A same is not always important. Ukraine calls us what it wants us to call us and how European maps defined us. So be it. In international documents let’s be called what Europeans want to call us,” Deynego said.

At the same time the representative of the break-away militant-held Luhansk region (Eastern Ukraine) said the renaming could …

The Russian Aerospace Forces have added the first consignment of the latest Mi-28UB helicopters to their armament, TASS reports with reference to the Defense Ministry.

The addition of the helicopters to the forces was approved on Wednesday November 8 at a factory in Rostov-on-Don. “During the reception, representatives of the engineering and aviation services and flight personnel made control checks on the operation of the aviation equipment and various regimes on the ground and in the air,” …

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin said on Inter TV channel that the joint draft of the UN resolution on peacekeepers in the Donbas is almost ready.

"I talked with Kurt [Volker - US Special Representative for Ukraine] a few hours ago. We agreed on the main parameters of our position, in fact the text of the resolution, our draft, is almost ready. I say ours, because we are working together with the US, Germany, and France, as well as with the UK, following a very clear logic," …

Hungary’s hysteria over Ukraine’s Law on Education requiring providing instruction in the state language in Ukrainian educational system is not subsiding, as stated by the head of Ukraine’s mission to NATO, Vadym Prystaiko, at a meeting with journalists in Brussels, LB.ua reports.

"Hungary continues to make bravura statements while NATO is trying to explain that these are just work processes, nothing is canceled or blocked," he said, referring to Hungary's decision to veto the meeting of the …