The United States is demanding an explanation from Lithuania regarding how the M14 sniper semi-automatic rifles, donated to the Lithuanian Army and highly valued by collectors around the world, appeared in private hands, Delfi reported.

“The US Embassy believes that the aid, transferred by the US government, was illegally handed to third parties, disregarding the signed agreement on prohibition of re-sale of the arms donated by the Americans,” the news portal notes.

It was noted that the M14 …

The resumption of air strikes by Russia and by the regime of Bashar al-Assad, which Russia supports, including at the hospitals in the area of the Syrian city Aleppo, as well as the continuation of the siege of entire residential areas is nothing else but a violation of international law.

This statement was made on November 15 by the Director of the Press Office of the U.S. Department of State, Elizabeth Trudeau.

"We strongly condemn the resumption of air strikes in Syria that are carried out …

Russian government authorities were very surprised by the arrest of the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Alexey Ulyukaev. Ulyukaev became an expert-savior, who managed to keep the Russian economy afloat despite the pressure of sanctions and low oil prices. He has now been accused of corruption by the Investigative Committee, as reported by Gazeta Wyborcza.

“I respect him very much. Ulyukaev isn’t one of those, who I would suspect of something like that. Nothing is …

On the 15th of November, the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, stated that Russia’s annexation of the Crimea is still one of the main stumbling blocks in their relations with Moscow.

“We will never accept any violation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine,” he said.

When asked for his thoughts on a telephone conversation between newly elected US president, Donald Trump, and Russian President Vladimir Putin held on the 14th of November, Stoltenberg responded that …

Members of the US House of Representatives have approved a bill imposing sanctions against countries and companies who provide financial assistance to Syrian authorities.

The chairperson of the Committee of the House of Representatives on Foreign Affairs, Ed Royce, explained that the main objects of the bill are Russia and Iran. “We learned a painful lesson in people’s suffering. Even the UN described what is happening as a crime of historic proportions,” Royce said.

The proposed sanctions …