Two frigates from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, the Admiral Grigorovich and Admiral Essen, have set out from Sevastopol to join the Russian squadron in the Mediterranean Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry’s website reported.

“Making the transition by sea, the ships performed a range of ship combat exercises at the fleet’s combat training sites in the Black Sea,” the report states.

As part of the drills, Ka-27PL helicopters took off and landed from the frigates’ decks. The frigates also searched …

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, commenting on the Bloomberg publication that if Syrian government troops would use chemical weapons, the United States is ready for a missile strike on Syria, warned Washington and their allies against "new reckless steps." The government official informed RIA Novosti.

Ryabkov remarked that in Moscow, "they hear Washington’s ultimatums, including public ones." However, the Deputy Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry assured that this "does not …

Russia has opened criminal proceedings against the members of the far-right Ukrainian nationalist political organization, Right Sector accusing them of “serious crimes”, reported the press service of the Russian Investigative Committee.

The Investigative Committee filed charges against Right Sector after the publication of a document named “the verdict of the Central National Court of the Right Sector”. According to the Investigative Committee, the members of the subdivision of Right Sector, …

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel excluded the possibility that Georgia could join NATO soon, reported the Voice of America. "I do not see any possibility of Georgia’s joining NATO. This is Germany’s position,” Merkel stated at a meeting with the students of Tbilisi State University. 

"Such things happen gradually,” she said while commenting on the possibility of Georgia’s membership in NATO.

At the Summit Bucharest in 2008, the leaders of NATO stated that at some point, Georgia will become …

An opening ceremony in front of the Russian Embassy of the square named after Russian oppositionist Boris Nemtsov took place in Vilnius on Friday, August 24.

“This square is named after Boris Nemtsov not just because he was Lithuania’s great friend, but [also for the] values for which he fought: peace, democracy, human rights, freedom. We all want to live in a world, where these universal values prevail,” said Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Simasius during the ceremony.

He hopes that one day “the …