• Russian Border Guard cadet asks for refugee status in Ukraine

    A cadet from the Russian Border Guard Institute asked Ukraine to grant him political asylum, as reported on Facebook by the assistant head of the State Border Service, Press Secretary Oleh Slobodyan.

    According to Slobodyan, several days ago, a citizen of the Russian Federation, born in 1997, arrived at the Hoprivka border crossing to enter Ukraine. He said that he was a serviceman of the FSB of the Russian Federation and asked to be recognized as a political refugee.

    "During the initial …

  • German schoolchildren invited by Russia visit Crimea

    17 German pupils came to annexed Simferopol on March 27 in the evening, RIA Novosti reports. The students arrived to participate in the project "Days of Russian and German children’s public diplomacy in Yalta" where they are scheduled to stay for two days.

    During the visit, a cooperation agreement will be signed between the ethnic cultural autonomy of Germans in Yalta, the Yalta School Number 01, the Lingua-mir school of foreign languages and one other organization from Germany.

    Pavlo Klimkin, …

  • Japan protests against Russian air drills in Kuril Islands

    Japan has filed a protest with Russia concerning Russian air drills over the island of Iturup, Japanese Foreign Minister Tarō Kōno said in response to questions from MPs of the Lower House.

    On Monday, two Russian Su-35 fighters executed a drill to relocate from Khabarovsk Krai to the Burevestnik reserve military airbase on Iturup Island, covering a distance of over 2,000 kilometers. The exercise was done in order to improve their flight training and their experience in defending Russia’s air …

  • Serbian president promises Putin not to expel Russian diplomats

    Serbia does not intend to join the other countries in its region in the expulsion of Russian diplomats, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call.

    “President Vučić told President Putin that Serbia will not take part in any measures whatsoever against the Russian Federation, and will not expel Russian diplomats, despite the fact that all the other countries in Serbia’s region have done so,” the Serbian president’s website states.Serbia is a …

  • 13 Russian diplomats expelled over Skripal case left Ukraine

    13 Russian diplomats, whom Ukraine decided to expel due to the poisoning of Sergei Skripal in Britain, recently left the country, reported TASS news agency, citing the Representative of the Russian Embassy in Kyiv.

    "All the employees of the Russian embassy, declared persona non-grata, left Ukraine," he said, noting that representatives of the embassy and consulates have fulfilled the ultimatum of the Ukrainian side.

    According to the Russian Embassy Representative: “Diplomats left Ukraine in …