• Russian general and 26 officers killed in plane crash in Syria

    A major-general, 26 officers, ensigns, and contract soldiers were killed in the crash of a Russian An-26 transport plane in Syria, reported TASS, citing a source in the Russian Defense Ministry.

    “As a result of the tragedy, 27 officers were killed, including one major-general, as well as ensigns and contract servicemen. There were no civilians on the An-26,” the Defense Ministry reported.

    The commander of the aircraft was a first-class pilot with a little more than 3,000 flying hours. He had …

  • ​Poroshenko: Gazprom's threats to terminate gas delivery contract with Ukraine another argument against Nord Stream-2

    President Petro Poroshenko believes that Russia's threats not to fulfill the ruling of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce on the Naftogaz vs Gazprom case are another argument against the Russian Nord Stream-2 main gas pipeline project, as he stated at a meeting with the Minister of Defense of Sweden, Peter Hultqvist.

    "Russia’s behavior…, the threats to stop gas supplies to Ukraine, to not obey the gas transit ruling of the court, and to terminate the [gas] contract, …

  • Ukraine begins search for Gazprom’s assets in Europe

    Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has instructed the ambassadors in European countries to look for Gazprom’s assets in preparation for the collection of the Russian company’s debt to Naftogaz.

    “If Russia does not comply, we will go to the courts – we will go to New York, we will go to London, we will go to all countries. I have already given our ambassadors the instruction to look for Gazprom’s assets throughout Europe. They keep accurate record of everything there,” Klimkin told the …

  • Kyiv: Russia behind the attacks on the office of the Union of Hungarians in Uzhhorod

    Pavlo Klimkin, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, believes that Russia is behind the attacks on the Society of Hungarian culture in Uzhhorod.

    "Thanks to the police for active work in Transcarpathia. Russian traces everywhere. ‘Hello’ to all who speculated on mystical, anti-Hungarian sentiments. I doubt that this is the last destabilization attempt,” Klimkin wrote on Twitter.

    On March 4, the police arrested three people involved in the attack on the Society of Hungarian culture on …

  • Daughter of the rector of Russian university says her father prepared Putin's thesis

    The rector of the St. Petersburg Mining University, Vladimir Litvinenko, personally wrote a thesis for Russian President, Vladimir Putin, as indicated by his daughter, Olga Litvinenko, Radio Liberty reports.

    "One of Vladimir Putin’s secrets, which Olga Litvinenko knows very well, is how he [Putin] defended his Ph.D. thesis," the publication writes.

    He defended his thesis in 1997 at the St. Petersburg Mining University, now a university headed by Vladimir Litvinenko. At that time, Putin …