Poland has no legal basis for demanding reparations from Germany for damage caused during the Second World War, according to an expert opinion prepared by the analytical service of the Bundestag, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) newspaper reported on Friday, September 1.

As stated in the document, all claims became null and void at as of the signing of the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany or the "2 + 4" agreement in 1990, "since Poland did not claim reparations by …

In his Facebook post, the former leader of the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Roman Lyagin said that Russia had betrayed the separatists in the Donbas.  

"I am the organizer of the referendum and responsible for the failure of the Ukrainian elections in 2014. I did what I did according to my beliefs, sincerely and with full dedication! Because I believed in Russia, which will not leave us. But it [Russia] left us to the mercy of fate! …

The Russian government postponed the commissioning of the Simferopol and Sevastopol TPPs (Thermal Power Plants). The document, signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, was published on the Russian government’s web site for legal information.

According to the new timetable, the first section of the TPPs should be operational as of May 19, 2018, the second one will come a month later. On June 18, 2018, both stations must be operational. The plant’s total capacity is 940 MW.

Earlier it was …

Diplomats of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic accused the Moldovan authorities of deporting delegation members from Russia and South Ossetia who were traveling to Transnistria, as   reported on the official site of the Transnistrian Foreign Ministry.

“The actions of the representatives of the Republic of Moldova are evidence of yet another cycle of  Chișinău’s use of mechanisms to filter foreign guests heading for Transnistria,” the statement reads.

According to the …

The Presidents of Russia and Belarus, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, respectively plan to visit together the strategic Zapad (West) 2017 exercise, which will include large-scale maneuvers from both armies. Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Vladimir Putin explained to Izvestia newspaper  that the two presidents intend to visit one of the training grounds in Russia.

The joint Russian-Belarusian strategic exercise Zapad 2017 will be held from September 14 to September 20, 2017. According to …

 According to the report published by InformNapalm analytical-investigative group, Russia has transferred several hundred troops and about 50 units of equipment, among them Tochka-U missile complexes, to the Ukrainian border.

"The number of equipment and their identification indicate that the Russian command is transferring a fully staffed two-battery division of the tactical missile system Tochka-U with additional ammunition, communication and support equipment like field kitchens and …

A mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will arrive in Ukraine on September 12 to analyze the implementation of the Memorandum of Cooperation with the Fund, lb.ua news website reports citing a source in the Ukrainian government.

"The IMF mission will work in Ukraine September 12-13," the source said.

He also noted that while in Kyiv, the mission members would analyze the implementation of commitments undertaken by Ukraine to continue funding under the EFF (Extended Fund Facilitty) …

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the situation on the Korean Peninsula is teetering on the brink of a large-scale conflict. He wrote this in an article on the eve of the BRICS summit, which will be held in Xiamen on September 4-5. The article was published on the Kremlin’s website.

“I cannot ignore the situation on the Korean Peninsula, which has recently escalated and is teetering on the edge of a large-scale conflict,” said the Russian president.

Putin stressed that, in Russia's …