A Russian Navy warship entered the Mediterranean Sea on its way to Syria
The Russian landing ship Nikolay Filchenkov entered the waters of the Mediterranean Sea on the way to Syria, Interfax reported.
The vessel is headed to the Syrian port of Tartus, where the logistics center of the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean Sea is located. This is the Filchenkov’s seventh campaign.
According to Turkish media, on July 16, a Kyzyl-60 auxiliary transport ship of the Russian Navy passed through the Black Sea straits bearing cargo bound for Syria. On July 10, the landing …
IMF ready to postpone requirement for land reform in Ukraine
Pension reform, privatization, and the fight against corruption are key requirements for the completion of the fourth review of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), says William Murray, an official representative of the Fund.
"Consideration by the Executive Board of the fourth review will be possible once the policies needed for this review are implemented. The focus of this review is on pension reform and on measures to speed up privatization …
Media: Kremlin facing challenges in developing campaign strategy for Putin for 2018 elections
The Kremlin has not yet come up with “a vision for Russia's future” that Vladimir Putin could use in the 2018 presidential election, reported the Russian publication Vedomosti.
According to people close to the Russian president's administration, work in this direction is "stormy" and "difficult." Notably, more than a dozen meetings have taken place on this issue.
The Kremlin has already replaced several resource professionals who were to invent an image of the future for Putin's campaign. …
Washington: Russia's FSB requested assistance of the FBI in ensuring security during the FIFA World Cup
The FSB of Russia appealed to the United States FBI with a request for assistance in providing security at the upcoming FIFA World Cup 2018, as reported in the U.S. State Department's most recent annual report on the analysis of terrorist threats in the world.
“The FSB requested assistance from the FBI with respect to security training in preparation for the FIFA World Cup in 2018,” the document notes. It does not provide any details about what kind of assistance Russian law enforcement …
Kyiv calls on UN to quicken its response to conflicts
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Sergiy Kyslytsya said at a meeting of the UN Security Council on July 19 that the main UN institutions should respond to conflicts in the world in a timely manner, aiming to localize them and prevent the growth of violence and human rights violations, Ukrinform reports.
Kyslytsya recalled that in 1994 the UN was unable to prevent the genocide in Rwanda. "In the issues of preventing conflicts and the increase of the number of human rights violations, …