• Lithuania to build a fence along the border with Russia

    Lithuania decided to build a fence on the border with the Kaliningrad region in 2017. Until recently, only special signs and a 13-meter control zone indicated the border between Russia and Lithuania, Delfi reported, referring to Lietuvos žinios as a source.

    The fence with total value of 3.6 million Euros would be constructed on the 135-kilometer area from Vištytis to Neman. Modern surveillance will be installed near the fence. The funds for this system are planned to be found in 2017.

    The …

  • Leader of the Night Wolves biker club spoke at Russian Economic Forum

    Biker Alexander "The Surgeon" Zaldostanov was invited to speak at the Gaidar Economic Forum, which takes place in Moscow. He took part in the discussion "Innovations in the formation of tourist-recreational clusters in the Russian Federation."

    As reported by TASS, during his speech The Surgeon spoke of Patriot Park, which is being created in occupied Sevastopol by the Night Wolves motorcycle club.

    Zaldostanov believes it is a popular and promising project that "can become a kind of informal …

  • Ukrainian Information Policy Ministry is developing an information reintegration strategy for the Crimea

    On January 13th, the First Deputy Minister of Information Policy of Ukraine, Emine Dzheppar, stated at a press conference in Kyiv that the Ukrainian Information Policy Ministry is developing an information reintegration strategy for the Crimea which is scheduled to be presented in late March.

    According to the Information Policy Ministry’s idea, the document should become an action plan for the Ukrainian Government regarding the issue of the Crimea. If this happens, each Ukrainian Ministry will …

  • German intelligence: Russia seeks to spoil relations between the EU and the US

    Russia is using manipulation in an effort to sow discord between the U.S. and Europe and to spoil the close EU-US cooperation, as stated in a joint report by the Federal Intelligence Service of Germany (BND) and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution of the German government, Der Spiegel reports.

    According to the newspaper, German intelligence agencies were tasked by the Chancellor to investigate the activities of the Russian security services after a cyber-attack on the …

  • Survey: Most Russians think the world fears their country

    About 86% of Russian citizens believe that people in the world fear Russia and 75% of them believe that this is a good thing, Interfax reported, citing a survey conducted by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center.

    Moreover, about 67% of respondents are convinced that Russia’s influence in the world in the recent years has increased and about 19% of them that it has decreased.

    The respondents’ opinions regarding the world’s attitude towards Russia are divided. 48% of the respondents …