• President of European Council Tusk refuses to congratulate Putin on winning the election

    On Wednesday, March 21, the President of the European Council Donald Tusk said that because of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter, he will not congratulate the president of Russia on re-election, RIA Novosti reported.

    "After the attack in Salisbury, I have no mood to celebrate the re-election of President Putin," Tusk said, answering questions from journalists in Brussels on Wednesday.

    Tusk is not alone in his sentiments. The President of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaitė and Polish …

  • Russia restricts the entry of trucks at Ukrainian border

    Russia has restricted the entry of trucks through the checkpoints in the Belgorod and Voronezh regions at the border with Ukraine due to software failure, State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reports.

    As a result, "a backlog of freight vehicles" is recorded. There were 45 trucks at the checkpoint in the Kharkiv region, and in the Sumy region, there were 35 trucks.

    A similar incident occurred in mid-February. At that time, more than a hundred trucks accumulated at the border of Russia’s …

  • Russia says UK authorities 'staged' poisoning of Skripal

    The Russian Ministry of the Interior said that UK authorities themselves may have “staged” the attack on former intelligence agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, who were poisoned in Salisbury.

    This was stated by the director of the Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry Vladimir Ermakov, reported Nastoyashaya Vremya.

    “Here, elementary logic suggests only two possible options: the British authorities either are not able to provide protection …

  • Russia's Gazprom to file new case in arbitration court over Ukraine’s seizure of its assets

    Gazprom considers the arrest of its Ukrainian assets to be an attempt to illegally seize its property under the pretext of implementing the ruling made by the Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMKU) in 2016.

    “Gazprom does not recognize the legitimacy of the fine, and considers Ukraine’s actions to be an infringement of its rights,” the company’s report states.

    The Russian gas company intends to file a new case at an international arbitration court in connection with the Ukrainian …

  • Russian and US army chiefs of staff discuss situation in Syria

    Russian Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces General Valery Gerasimov and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Armed Forces General Joseph Dunford discussed Syria in a telephone conversation and agreed to continue contact, reported the Russian Defense Ministry.

    “On March 21, a telephone conversation took place between the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, the First Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Valery …