US Defense Secretary James Mattis said that the participants in the Syrian national dialog congress were unable to achieve any result.

According to him, the negotiations need to continue in Geneva, where UN Special Envoy on Syria Staffan de Mistura is now heading.

“You see that it didn’t work out in Sochi, and I think this is the most polite way of describing the result. They – Staffan de Mistura and the UN – are on their way to Geneva,” the US Defense Secretary commented.

He emphasized that …

Ukraine will begin to test the media literacy course for schoolchildren, which will be subsequently introduced in every school, as reported by the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Liliya Hrynevych at the presentation of the initiative on information and media literacy "Learn and Distinguish (L2D)".

According to her, for Ukraine the issue of disinformation is especially relevant. "However the situation for us, Ukrainian citizens, becomes even more difficult, because we all live in …

Ukraine and the Netherlands agreed to strengthen cooperation in in countering Russian propaganda and other hybrid challenges. A corresponding agreement was reached during the meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin, with the Minister of the Interior of the Netherlands, Kajsa Ollongren.

According to the press service of the Ukrainian ministry, such increased cooperation is especially relevant against the backdrop of recent cyber-attacks on the banking infrastructure …

Russia's Federation Council announced the "forthcoming" entry of the newest hypersonic weapon into service of the Russian army, as indicated by the head of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, Viktor Bondarev to RIA Novosti. 

"We have a large foundation of modern non-nuclear weapons, in particular, precision weapons. Also let me remind you that soon the troops will receive the latest hypersonic weapons," Bondarev said.

In mid-December, the newspaper Kommersant, citing a …

The Ukrainian government intends to conclude a framework loan agreement with China worth $7 billion to help fund a number of infrastructure projects, as announced by Viktor Dovgan, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine, during the presentation of an exhibition project for the China International Import Expo, UNIAN reports.

"The government intends to submit an official proposal to the Chinese Ministry of Commerce regarding the conclusion of a framework loan agreement for a number of …

Ukraine plans to begin testing the new Vilha (Alder) missile system in March and launch the industrial production of this cruise missile in late 2018 - early 2019, as stated by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), Oleksandr Turchynov, channel 112 Ukraine reports.

“I hope that at the end of the year or early next year we will conduct tests and it [the cruise missile] will be received by the Army,” Turchynov said. According to him, there is already “a huge demand …

The Minsk City Court sentenced three contributors of the Russian news agency, Regnum, to five years in prison with the sentence being suspended for three years for fueling ethnic hostilities.

As Interfax reported, the journalists were freed in the courtroom after they signed an agreement not to leave the country.

In particular, the court found an associate professor of the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Yuriy Pavlovets, a security guard working in Brest, …

According to the Spanish police’s website, the Spanish authorities have extradited Russian hacker Peter Levashov, who had been accused of cyber-fraud, to the United States.

36-year-old St. Petersburg native Peter Levashov was arrested by the Spanish authorities in April 2017. The United States immediately demanded his extradition. Levasho was incriminated in the creation and use of a Botnet more commonly known as Kelihos. Hundreds of thousands of computers around the world were Infected with …