Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s meeting at the APEC Summit in Vietnam is necessary in order for them to discuss the Syrian problem, said Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov, as reported by Interfax.

Peskov emphasized that in US-Russian relations many matters have accumulated which require discussion by the heads of state. It is thus in the interests of both countries “for both presidents to find an opportunity for more or less prolonged communication”, he remarked.The two presidents will …

In a speech at the 8th Annual Ukrainian Investment Forum on Friday, the Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Ukraine, Gösta Ljungman, said that Ukraine's losses due to corruption amount to 2% of GDP.

"In Ukraine, there is no genuine fight against corruption. Corruption costs Ukraine 2% of its economic growth, so the fight against it is an issue of economic prosperity," Ljungman said.

He stated that the next important step in this direction should be the creation …

22 cargo ships illegally entered the ports of the annexed Crimea in October, reports the press service of the Ministry for Temporary Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons of Ukraine.

"Between October 1 and November 1 of this year, 22 calls of cargo vessels were recorded trespassing at ports in the occupied Crimea. In general, these vessels carried out 64 calls to the ports of Kerch, Sevastopol and Feodosia," the ministry said.Of these vessels, 18 sailed under the Russian flag, …

In Ukraine, as of 2017, there are 35,000 people without citizenship, as stated in a report by the United Nations Refugee Agency.

According to the report, at least 10 million people across the world do not have citizenship and a third of them are children.

It was also reported that during the census in 2001 in Ukraine, 82,000 people said that they do not have citizenship. Most of these people lived in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and the Odessa, Donetsk, and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

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There are no anti-Polish sentiments in Ukraine and the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians see Poland as a friend, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine said on Friday, November 3rd, in response to a statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Witold Jan Waszczykowski, in which he threatened to deny entry to Ukrainians who are against Poland.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, though acknowledging certain differences between Ukraine and Poland concerning their perception of the …

Finland plans to conduct joint military exercises with the US and other allies, as indicated by the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Finland, Jussi Niinisto.

According to him, they plan to attract recruits, reservists, and soldiers to participate in the exercises. Niinisto said that Sweden, the United States, and "other countries" will also take part in the exercises. The Minister specified that the events would be similar to the Aurora 2017 exercises that were held in Sweden and …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is making the next tranche allocation to Ukraine contingent on adoption of a law on privatization, the creation of an anti-corruption court, and an increase in gas prices, Ukrainski Novyny reports citing the IMF representative in Ukraine, Goesta Ljungman.

"The conditions for the fourth revision of the program are the adoption of a law on privatization that will ensure the transparent sale of state assets, as well as a requirement on pension reform, which …

Grigori Shkundin, Vice-President of the Russian Association of World War I historians, and Dmitry Surzhik, a Research Associate at the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Executive Secretary of the Russian-Belarusian Association of Historians "Union Initiative of Remembrance and Concord", were detained at the airport in Chisinau on the evening of November 2, according to RBC news agency.

"Four scientists from Russia were to take part in a conference, ‘The Russian …