Gas has become not just energy, but a strategic weapon, that’s why the Nord Stream-2 project cannot be considered as a purely economic issue, as expressed by European Parliament Deputy, Elmar Brok, during the panel discussion "Ukraine: In the Grip of a Crisis?", Ukrinform reports.

"Gas is not just energy, it has become a strategic weapon. And when Putin holds energy and politics in his own hands, we say that this is purely an economic issue. Putin is laughing at this," Brok said.

He also …

Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a live broadcast on Russian federal television on Friday that citizens of Russia should not expect that all the problems that have arisen in the country, particularly in its economy and social spheres, will be resolved immediately.

"You, Russian citizens, are right to speak about low incomes, faults with the healthcare system, housing, utilities and other things as well," Putin said, stressing that after winning the election he feels "a need to …

Members of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, Senators Ben Cardin and Cory Gardner, and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee held a meeting on Capitol Hill with the former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov, who was the first to report the existence of a state-supported doping program in Russian sports.

The website of the commission says that during the meeting, threats to the United States from Russia, corruption in international sports structures, and possible measures to …

Russia has already established carrier groups for long-range air, sea, and land-based cruise missiles in all strategic directions, as announced by Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia and first Deputy Defense Minister, during a press conference at the Military Academy of the General Staff, writes RIA Novosti news agency.

All these facilities, as the head of the department specified, are "capable of fulfilling containment tasks in strategically important …

People’s Deputy of Ukraine Nadiya Savchenko, who was arrested earlier for two months, cannot be accused of cooperating with terrorist organizations because Ukraine did not recognize the separatists of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR) as terrorists, lawyer Rostyslav Kravets stated in an exclusive commentary for InfoResist.

Kravets explained that no legal regulation in Ukraine recognizes the DPR and LPR as terrorist organizations, which is why filing charges under …

The Russian Embassy in London has released a statement alleging that the head of a the laboratory of the British Ministry of Defense  in Porton Down “confirmed the development of poisonous substances”, including the one that was used to poison Sergei Skripal, Russia’s Interfax news agency reports .

According to a Russian Embassy spokesperson, ​​the statements by Gary Aitkenhead, the Chief Executive of the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory in Porton Down who spoke about the laboratory’s …

Viktor Bondarev, the Head of the Council of the Federation Committee on Defense and Security, told RIA Novosti that Russia will continue to develop advanced weapons, despite the reduction of the defense budget.

Dmitry Peskov, the Russian President's Press Secretary, said earlier in an interview with RT that Russia's defense budget would be reduced. In five years Russia is planned to spend less than 3% of GDP on defense purposes.

Bondarev said that "This won’t affect the financing of the …

During a meeting in Volyn Oblast, President Petro Poroshenko said that bank assets valued at $5 billion remain in the occupied territory.

"One number that has never been made public is that bank assets worth $5 billion have remained in the occupied territory," the President said.

Poroshenko added that these funds cannot be withdrawn because the treasuries had been seized.

On March 6, Ukraine extended sanctions against four banks with Russian state capital for four years. The banks affected …