Belarus has called on the EU to ease the sanctions.  “We regret that in February, the European Union extended restrictive measures against Belarus, which have long lost any rational explanation, and we continue to urge the EU to remove the restrictive measures that still remain,” stated Belarus’ Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vladimir Makei, DS News reports.

Minister Makei added that cooperation over the past few years has brought far more positive results than the previous two decades of …

On May 20, Ukrainian soldiers captured three separatists during a raid in the vicinity of Holmivskyi in the Donetsk province. The captured fighters claimed that in the “armed forces” of the so-called “people’s republics” when they join the “ranks” their documents are taken away, and they are paid meager wages, the TSN reports.

The Ukrainian soldiers were able to approach the sepratists’ positions towards evening; it says a lot that the fighters were able to come close without a single shot …

Russia paid no less than twenty five thousand euro for a flight on a private plane for three politicians from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) right-wing, populist party, reported Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).

According to the newspaper, the politicians were Frauke Petry, Marcus Pretzell and Julian Flak, who visited Moscow in February 2017. Two participants of the visit have already confirmed its details. The visit marks the first proven case of large-scale financial injections into …

On May 19, when crossing the Russian border in Sochi, the former Minister of Culture of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic, Natalia Voronina was detained.

Quoting sources in the Sochi Adler Court, Kommersant reported that the "official" was transferred to the temporary detention center for illegal migrants in the city of Gulkevichi, Krasnodar Krai in Russia.

The court ruled on May 20 to deport Voronina with a five-year entry ban to Russia. However, the decision did not come into force …

Spanish intelligence has published an official report revealing its suspicion that Russia intervened in the Catalan crisis.

According to El Pais, Spain’s National Cryptologic Centre - which is responsible for protecting the country against cyberattacks on the state administrations network – published a report relating cyber threats discovered in 2017 and announcing Moscow's interference in the Catalonian elections. However, the agency did so without providing specific evidence of the latter.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine urged its international partners to increase pressure on Russia to free the Ukrainian director, Crimean Oleg Sentsov, who went on a hunger strike while staying in the penal colony in the Russian city of Labytnangi."The political prisoner Sentsov put his life on the line in order to free the hostages of the Kremlin. We call on partners to pressure Russia to free Sentsov," the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman, Mariana Betsa wrote on Twitter.On …

The Russian Federation Navy’s Baltic fleet comprising 24 warships and various support vessels has been deployed in the Baltic Sea as part of its military exercises in the Kaliningrad region, ERR.ee reported.

Naval aviation conducted training in the same area, conducting bomb strikes on ground targets. The maneuvers took place in the Dobrovolsky military firing range, located on the border with Lithuania.

Russia has been conducting military exercises in the Baltic Sea on a regular basis. …

Human Rights Watch, a prominent human rights organization, has called for a political boycott of the opening match of the World Cup, which will be held on June 14 in Russia. Kenneth Roth, the Executive Director of the organization, announced this in a special statement on Tuesday, May 22.

"World leaders should signal to President Putin that unless he changes track and acts to end atrocities by Russian and Syrian forces in Syria, they won’t be in their seats in the VIP box with him on opening …