22 cargo ships illegally entered the ports of the annexed Crimea in October, reports the press service of the Ministry for Temporary Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons of Ukraine.

"Between October 1 and November 1 of this year, 22 calls of cargo vessels were recorded trespassing at ports in the occupied Crimea. In general, these vessels carried out 64 calls to the ports of Kerch, Sevastopol and Feodosia," the ministry said.Of these vessels, 18 sailed under the Russian flag, …

In Ukraine, as of 2017, there are 35,000 people without citizenship, as stated in a report by the United Nations Refugee Agency.

According to the report, at least 10 million people across the world do not have citizenship and a third of them are children.

It was also reported that during the census in 2001 in Ukraine, 82,000 people said that they do not have citizenship. Most of these people lived in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and the Odessa, Donetsk, and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

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There are no anti-Polish sentiments in Ukraine and the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians see Poland as a friend, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine said on Friday, November 3rd, in response to a statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Witold Jan Waszczykowski, in which he threatened to deny entry to Ukrainians who are against Poland.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, though acknowledging certain differences between Ukraine and Poland concerning their perception of the …

Finland plans to conduct joint military exercises with the US and other allies, as indicated by the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Finland, Jussi Niinisto.

According to him, they plan to attract recruits, reservists, and soldiers to participate in the exercises. Niinisto said that Sweden, the United States, and "other countries" will also take part in the exercises. The Minister specified that the events would be similar to the Aurora 2017 exercises that were held in Sweden and …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is making the next tranche allocation to Ukraine contingent on adoption of a law on privatization, the creation of an anti-corruption court, and an increase in gas prices, Ukrainski Novyny reports citing the IMF representative in Ukraine, Goesta Ljungman.

"The conditions for the fourth revision of the program are the adoption of a law on privatization that will ensure the transparent sale of state assets, as well as a requirement on pension reform, which …

Grigori Shkundin, Vice-President of the Russian Association of World War I historians, and Dmitry Surzhik, a Research Associate at the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Executive Secretary of the Russian-Belarusian Association of Historians "Union Initiative of Remembrance and Concord", were detained at the airport in Chisinau on the evening of November 2, according to RBC news agency.

"Four scientists from Russia were to take part in a conference, ‘The Russian …

Russia has rejected a call by the United States to not block an international investigation by the UN into the use of chemical weapons in Syria in the UN, reports Radio Liberty.

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, department head Sergei Lavrov “noted the inadmissibility of politicizing" the so-called joint investigation mechanism of the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, whose current mandate expires on November 17, during a telephone conversation with US …

The National Intellectual Development Foundation, which operates under the trade name “Innopraktika” and belongs to Yekaterina Tikhonova, who is considered by the media to be Putin’s daughter, increased its profits 3.5 times – to 113.9 million rubles ($1.95 million), RBC reports.

As the foundation explained, this came about due to the realization of research projects.

The foundation’s net annual profit increased by a factor of 3.5 and thus amounted to 113.9 million rubles (compared to 31.5 …