The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, has held business meetings with US President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, as chairman of the ExxonMobil oil corporation, as confirmed by the President’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov, Interfax reports.

“They had business meetings. Indeed, the President has hosted Mr. Tillerson, as well as his partners in Russia on several occasions.” Peskov stated in answering the question whether Putin knows the …

The Deputy of Verkhovna Rada, Nadiya Savchenko, said that she met with the leadership of the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republic (LPR and DPR), Igor Plotnitsky and Alexander Zakharchenko, and "the Russian side" was also present. On Monday, December 12, she said this in her speech at the Sofia Square in Kyiv, 112 Ukraine TV channel reports.

"Yes, there was a meeting in trilateral Minsk format where 'the Russian side', Zakharchenko and Plotnitsky were present. The meeting aimed …

According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, US President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, is a “pragmatic” choice, TASS reported.

“We are ready to work with any partners who are interested in developing relations with Russia on an equal basis. I think both President Trump and the next Secretary of State are pragmatic people. We expect that this pragmatism will be a good foundation for building mutually beneficial cooperation from the …

The Director of the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service, Major General Gunnar Karlson, stated that Russia is the largest source of cyber-attacks against Sweden, the Local reported.

“We have information about the sources of many activities; they can be traced more or less directly. It can be distribution of false information, distortion of truth, exaggeration of certain facts that makes it harder to understand the real picture of the situation,” Karlson said. He revealed that …

The Prime Minister of Ukraine, Volodymyr Groysman, discussed the implementation of decentralization in Ukraine as one of the most important reforms needed for the development of the country, on Sunday at a conference with members of the Association of Cities of Ukraine, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

"Decentralization is a step towards the development of the regions because the people have the resources and they will start to resolve the existing problems … only through decentralization and the …

The Head of the Department of Special Investigations of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Sergey Gorbatyuk, stated in an interview with Sonya Koshkina on Left Coast that the General Prosecutor’s Office received a considerable amount of work during the testimonies of the former President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.

According to him, these testimonies can be used not only in the case against Berkut officers, in which Yanukovych was a witness, but also in the proceeding in which the former …

The British Secretary of State for Defense, Michael Fallon, is ready to work with Moscow to achieve a settlement on the situation in Syria. However, he considers Russia a strategic competitor of the West.

"I'm ready to work with the new Secretary of Defense [of the US], James Mattis, to de-escalate tensions with Moscow; and as I said, to continue to work with Russia on how we reach a settlement in Syria," he said in an interview with the British BBC.

"At the same time, Russia cannot be …

In early 2015, a cyber attack took place on the database of the German Bundestag's administration and classified documents belonging to the committee responsible for investigating large-scale surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA) appeared on WikiLeaks, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported, citing a source in German intelligence. The documents first appeared on WikiLeaks on December 1st and are dated from late 2014 to early 2015. The documents had been stored on the …