The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary summoned the Russian Ambassador due to the format of the Russian television coverage of the anniversary of the 1956 uprising, the Associated Press reports.

Hungary has expressed dissatisfaction with the way the Russian state media described the anti-Communist revolution of 1956. In particular, in one of the TV programs, the revolt was described as a "massacre" and the first "color revolution." In the program, it was reported that the events in Hungary …

During a meeting of the National Reforms Council, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Volodymyr Groysman, stated that the Ukrainian government will introduce a strategy for reforming the Ukrainian customs policy, to start from January 1, 2017, reported Telegraf.

“We will submit proposals to the National Reforms Council to approve the strategy for the reform of Ukrainian customs, and we would like this large-scale process to start on January 1, 2017,” Groysman said.

Earlier, it was reported that …

At least ten NATO member states have pledged to contribute soldiers to the alliance’s four multinational battalions in the Baltic States and Poland.

Speaking to reporters following a meeting of the alliance’s defense ministers in Brussels, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that Albania, Italy, Poland, and Slovenia agreed to contribute to the battalion stationed in Latvia, where a Canadian contingent is already located; Belgium, Croatia, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and …

Russia's Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications, also known as Roskomnadzor, will strive to block the LinkedIn social networking service. According to officials, the website, where approximately 400 million people are registered, violates the requirements of the law on the protection of the personal data of Russian citizens.

Rambler News Service reported that the agency had applied to the Tagansky District Court of Moscow in …

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has submitted a note of protest to its Russian counterpart concerning Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to the Crimea, Izvestia reported.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry’s press service said that it did not consent to Putin’s visit to the annexed peninsula.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine expresses its strong protest to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in connection with another… visit by Russian President Putin to the …