On January 16, this year's first meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group on the peaceful settlement of the situation in the Donbas was held in Minsk. Iryna Herashchenko, Member of the Ukrainian humanitarian subgroup said that representatives of separate areas of Donetsk and Luhansk (ORDLO) are blocking the release of the hostages. The separatists have apparently stepped up attempts to exclude her from the negotiating process.

On her Facebook page Iryna Herashchenko wrote, "Despite the call of …

Montenegrin authorities suspect a Russian citizen, Eduard Shirokov, of planning the assassination of the former Montenegrin Prime Minister, Milo Đukanović.

As Vijesti Online reported, he was charged in absentia of criminal organization and terrorist activities.

Earlier Shirokov and another Russian citizen, Vladimir Popov, were on the international wanted list. According to the prosecution, they and other citizens of Serbia planned to arrange mass riots and a coup d’etat on Parliamentary …

The Spokesperson of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mariana Betsa, wrote on her Twitter account that the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs filed a lawsuit against Russia with the U.N. International Court of Justice in The Hague. “Ukraine just filed a lawsuit against the Russian Federation to the U.N. International Court of Justice. And this is a historic lawsuit as the law is on our side,” Betsa wrote.According to Kyiv, Moscow violates the International Convention for the …

Ukraine should implement a pension reform, reduce the number of state employees, abolish the simplified tax system and open a land market, Ukrayinska Pravda reported, referring to the recent version of the Memorandum of Cooperation between Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund.

“The draft Memorandum of Cooperation provides in total for 12 structural beacons, seven of which are new,” the edition wrote. As noted in the report, the Cabinet of Ministers should take two steps, firstly, make a …

On January 14, Ukrainian MP and former Azov Battalion Commander Andriy Biletsky said in his blog on the Ukrainska Pravda website that the management positions in the National Guard of Ukraine were taken by outright separatists. He declared that systematic corruption prevails there and that it is a threat to the defense capabilities of the country.

The Military Prosecutor's Office and the SBU promised to look into the situation "carefully, impartially and according to the law.”

In his …