• Crimean activists to start legal campaign to protect Khan’s Palace in Bakhchysarai

    Crimean legal experts and attorneys intend to start a legal campaign to protect the Khan’s Palace in Bakhchysarai, attorney Emil Kurbedinov wrote on his Facebook page.

    “Our team of attorneys and legal experts intends to start a legal campaign to protect the Khan’s Palace in Bakhchysarai from baseless assaults on the historical population of Crimean Tatars, a cultural heritage site! In general, I can say that primarily we intend to acquire official responses from the Russian Federation on the …

  • US planes conduct reconnaissance flights off Crimean coast

    Two U.S. military aircraft conducted a reconnaissance flight along virtually the entire coast of the Crimea on the Black Sea, Interfax reported.

    Data of the websites monitoring the air traffic showed that the U.S. Air Force RQ-4A Global Hawk strategic unmanned aircraft, tail number 12-2050, flew for several hours on January 7, cruising along the entire coast of the annexed Crimea.

    At the same time, the U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine aircraft, tail number 168432 and call sign PS076, …

  • Head of Adidas urged EU to improve relations with Russia

    Adidas-Group CEO Kasper Rørsted said Europe should improve relations with Moscow. "The one who thinks that we are punishing Russia with sanctions is mistaken. In the West, jobs are also gone because of this, but politicians prefer to keep silent about such results," Rørsted said in an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, published on Saturday, January 6.

    Rørsted stressed that he is not advocating for the European Union to lift sanctions against Russia. However, Rørsted …

  • Kyiv: Russian MP Poklonskaya maintains her Ukrainian citizenship

    State Duma deputy and former prosecutor of the Crimea, Natalia Poklonskaya, retains Ukrainian citizenship and the migration service has no information indicating that her passport was revoked, as reported by the Verkhovna Rada Deputy Serhiy Leshchenko, on NewsOne TV.

    According to Leshchenko, he sent a request regarding the status of Poklonskaya’s citizenship to the State Migration Service of Ukraine. The State Migration Service responded that Poklonskaya was not deprived of citizenship, as …

  • NATO fighters escorted a total of 130 Russian warplanes over Baltics in 2017

    In 2017, fighter aircraft from the Baltic Air Patrol mission deployed in Lithuania and Estonia escorted more Russian military aircraft flying near the borders of the Baltic countries than in any other year except for 2015, reports Delfi news agency, referring to the data of the Ministry of Defense of Lithuania.

    Last year, NATO fighters escorted about 130 aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea. In the year before that, fighters were scrambled about 110 times. There were 160 such escorts in 2015 …