Israel and another "neighboring state" allegedly unleashed “a climate war” against Iran, stated the head of the Iranian civil Defense Organization, Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, reports the Iranian news agency Tasnim.

Speaking at Civil Defense Conference, he said that according to Iranian scientists, the climate in the country has changed as a result of “an external intervention”.

The official said that melting of the mountain snow at an altitude of more than 2200 meters is caused by …

Czech Senators wrote a letter to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin calling for the release of the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov who was illegally imprisoned in Russia, as reported by the Embassy of Ukraine in the Czech Republic on Twitter.

"Each injustice caused by the State to any person that was later redressed reduces future tension and contributes to recovery of the society. That is why the release of Sentsov will be a sort of cure for your country,” the statement reads.

The …

Russian President Vladimir Putin amended the decree of January 1, 2016 regarding measures to ensure the economic security and national interests of the Russian Federation in the implementation of international transport of goods from the territory of Ukraine to the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan or the Kyrgyz Republic through the territory of the Russian Federation. Putin extended these measures for another six months, until January 1, 2019, as reported by the Russian government portal …

Russian warplanes carried out a massive attack in the southwest of the Syrian Idlib province, Al-Masdar news outlet reports .

According to Al-Masdar, Russian aircraft attacked rebel-held territories near the city of Jisr al-Shughur along the Turkish border. The Russian military also launched several ballistic missiles at Jisr al-Shughur and the northern part of the Al-Ghab Plain.

The strikes were carried out after the recent drone attack on Russian Khmeimim airbase on June 30.  According to …

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine (GPU) has drafted reports suspecting two members of Russia’s State Duma of financing terrorism, as announced on the GPU website.

“It has been established that two members of Russia’s State Duma, while located in Moscow, between March and June 2014, for the purpose of providing material support to the LPR and DPR terrorist organizations as part of the criminal group organized by [LDPR party leader Vladimir] Zhirinovsky, which has also been joined by …

The subject of the annexation of Crimea will not be on the agenda when U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet, said Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, at a press conference. “The Russian President has repeatedly said that the issue of Crimea will not be on the agenda,” Peskov said.

According to him, Putin is still willing to discuss compromises with Trump on any other matter.

The meeting between Trump and Putin will take place in Helsinki on July 16, in …

Poland’s Supreme Audit Office (NIK) has discovered violations in gas contracts made with Gazprom between 2009-2010, according to a document published on the NIK’s website.

The document states that former Polish Economy Minister Waldemar Pawlak made agreements with the Russian company “without the needed backing in the form of an approved negotiation instruction, and after the approval of such instructions, some of the agreements were incompatible with the obligatory principles”.

The NIK also …

Russian President Vladimir Putin named three Russian regiments Lviv, Zhytomyr, and Nizhyn. The 6th Tank Regiment of the Russian Army is now bearing the honorary title of the Lviv Regiment, the 68th Tank Regiment is the Zhytomyr Regiment, and the 163rd Panzer Regiment is the Nizhyn Regiment.

Putin’s decree is published on Russian government’s portal of legal information. The decree was signed on June 30, 2018, and has already gone into effect.

As noted by RBK, the names of Ukrainian cities are …