The Russian Foreign Ministry plans to take countermeasures against the American media in Russia in the event of continued pressure on the Russian television channel RT in the United States, the official spokeswoman for the ministry, Maria Zakharova, said.

According to her, the same measures will be applied to American media and American journalists that are being applied to RT (Russia Today) in the U.S., and Russia will deal with both state and private publications in the same way.

Zakharova …

The adopted changes will mean that, as of October 1, the minimum pension amount will increase from 1312 ($49.52) to 1452 ($54.80) hryvnia.

The pension reform envisages an incremental lengthening of the necessary contribution period before retirement to 25 years in 2018 and to 35 years in 2028.

From 2019, there are plans to introduce a contributory scheme. Persons who, according to current legislation, will be subject to the statutory state pension contribution on January 1, 2019, will be …

According to Ukrainian Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies (CACDS), the volume of Ukrainian arms exports to the global market can grow from the current 770 million dollars to 2-3 billion dollars, writes Valentin Badrak, director of the CACDS in his article for ZN.UA.

According to the author, although state concern Ukroboronprom believes that Ukraine does not have the end products for such deliveries, the flexible private sector can produce them very quickly, expanding both …

Authorities of the so-called LPR (Luhansk People’s Republic) have introduced criminal liability for non-payment of unified social contribution to compulsory state insurance, also known as the Unified Social Tax or UST, reported the terrorist-controlled online-resource LIC.

The corresponding decision was made by "the deputies of the People's Council of the LPR", adopting the so-called law “On Introducing Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the LPR."

The so-called legislative act amends " …

Russia’s Federal State Unitary Enterprise “General Radio Frequency Center” (GRFC) has created a special department which investigates and analyses means of blocking websites and online services, and how to bypass the blocking, said Roskomnadzor (Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media) head Alexander Zharov, newspaper Izvestiya reports.

“They [the department] practice blocking all the resources which would have to be blocked if they …