On the 16th of November, a large landing ship of the Russian Northern Fleet, the Georgii Pobedonosets, heading for Syria with cargo, entered the Mediterranean Sea through the Black Sea Straits, according to Istanbul information portals containing photos of its passage through the Bosphorus. According to British websites, a large landing ship of the Baltic Fleet, the Korolev, also entered the Mediterranean Sea through the Straits of Gibraltar.

It is expected that both landing ship are heading …

A spokesperson for the United States Department of State, John Kirby, stated that the U.S. Department of State sees no reason to doubt the validity of reports stating that airstrikes were carried out on five hospitals and at least one mobile hospital in Syria.

“We saw reports from humanitarian organizations that airstrikes were carried out on five hospitals and at least one mobile hospital. We believe this data to be credible,” Kirby said at the briefing, adding that the United States received …

The newly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump, is planning on visiting Russia right after his inauguration which will take place on January 20. This has been reported by Izvestia, citing an unnamed source in the Republican party.

According to the newspaper's source, Trump advisors convinced him that he should pay a visit to Russia right after the inauguration but not before.

The author of The National Interest, Dimitri Simes, believes that the decision to visit Russia after …

Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications, also known as Roskomnadzor, announced on Thursday that it had banned LinkedIn and instructed Russian telecommunications operators to block the website, TASS reported.

"Based on the court’s ruling that entered into force, the LinkedIn social network has been included in the registry of those violating the rights of personal data owners and is to be blocked by telecommunications …

The volume of foreign investments in the Ukrainian economy increased by $2.618 billion since the start of the year. As of October 1, 2016, it amounted to $45.152 billion. This is 6.2% more than at the beginning of the year when investments totaled $42.535 billion, the State Statistics Service reports.

From January until September, the economy received $3.801 billion worth of new investments. At the same time, the impact of negative revaluation of investments amounted to $724.4 million …

The United States is demanding an explanation from Lithuania regarding how the M14 sniper semi-automatic rifles, donated to the Lithuanian Army and highly valued by collectors around the world, appeared in private hands, Delfi reported.

“The US Embassy believes that the aid, transferred by the US government, was illegally handed to third parties, disregarding the signed agreement on prohibition of re-sale of the arms donated by the Americans,” the news portal notes.

It was noted that the M14 …

The resumption of air strikes by Russia and by the regime of Bashar al-Assad, which Russia supports, including at the hospitals in the area of the Syrian city Aleppo, as well as the continuation of the siege of entire residential areas is nothing else but a violation of international law.

This statement was made on November 15 by the Director of the Press Office of the U.S. Department of State, Elizabeth Trudeau.

"We strongly condemn the resumption of air strikes in Syria that are carried out …

Russian government authorities were very surprised by the arrest of the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Alexey Ulyukaev. Ulyukaev became an expert-savior, who managed to keep the Russian economy afloat despite the pressure of sanctions and low oil prices. He has now been accused of corruption by the Investigative Committee, as reported by Gazeta Wyborcza.

“I respect him very much. Ulyukaev isn’t one of those, who I would suspect of something like that. Nothing is …