Russian authorities easily “appoint” enemies and friends for the country, and its citizens are very vulnerable to the Kremlin’s opinion. This was the view expressed by Ukraine’s Ambassador to the Republic of Latvia, Yevhen Perebyinis.

According to him, in most cases the authorities are to blame for the conflicts between countries.

“Today, the results of the survey show that nearly half see Ukraine as Russia’s enemy. That raised the question of why people who consider themselves brothers to …

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will deploy a new group of rapid response forces to the Baltic region in May 2017. The Chairman of the NATO Military Committee and Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Army, Petr Pavel, stated that some divisions will come to the site earlier than the main group. The statement was made following the results of the NATO Committee meeting in Split, Croatia, the Wall Street Journal notes.

There, the military leadership of the Alliance discussed the terms …

The Armed Forces of Armenia have received the latest Russian operational-tactical Iskander-M missile system, defense-blog.com reported. This is the first confirmed case of an exported supply of the latest Russian missile system. The possible supply of this missile system to Armenia was reported earlier; however, there was no official confirmation of the information until now.The Iskander missile system (NATO code: SS-X-26) was developed by Mechanical Engineering Design Bureau, located in …

Sweden will not recognize the election results of the Russian State Duma, which were held in the annexed Crimea. This was posted by the Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström on Twitter.

“We condemn Russia’s actions with regard to the elections of the State Duma in the illegally annexed Crimea. We do not recognize those who will be “elected” in the Crimea,” Wallström said.

Newly appointed US Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, said that Washington also does not recognize the …

On the 18th of September, Russia opened polling stations in Abkhazia and Tskhinvali in the South Ossetia region, which was condemned in a statement made by the Georgian Foreign Ministry.

The statement said that as a result of the decision of the head of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, over 114,000 people living in the occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions were included in the voter lists of various federal entities in order for them to vote for candidates in …

US Permanent Representative to the UN Samantha Power heavily criticized the Russian initiative to hold an emergency Security Council conference on Saturday to discuss an incident connected with the air raid on Deir ez-Zor, during which 62 Syrian soldiers were killed. The US claims that positions of the so-called Islamic State were targeted, and the deaths of the Syrian soldiers was an accident. Power has told reporters that Russia's actions are a ruse, the real purpose of which is to distract …

Many Crimean Tatars did not come to the polls on voting day in Russia on Sunday, September 18, 2016. The turnout at the precinct on their part was minimal as it was in 2014 during the referendum on the status of the Crimea, Radio Svoboda reported.

Refusal to participate is not indifference or inaction but a conscious protest against "lies that continue to inspire people on TV by different leaders, their deputies, officials and candidates,” stated the representatives of the Tatar population of …

The OSCE has stated that the Russian Duma elections were marred by restrictions on basic rights and democratic commitments, Reuters reported.

Putin’s political allies won a landslide victory during Sunday’s elections, and while monitors did notice some improvements over previous elections, tampering and fraud are still believed to have padded the vote numbers for United Russia, the Communist Party, the nationalist LDPR, and A Just Russia, all pro-Putin political parties.

According to Finnish …