The Russian President’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, announced that the Kremlin will no longer send Vladimir Putin’s tentative schedule to media agencies, RBC reported.

“The mailing will no longer exist because the President’s schedule is not a dogma,” Peskov said.

According to him, this decision was made “in order to avoid needless discussions later on the cancellation of actions that had not been [finalized].”

“Some events may be worked through and charted out, but officially we do not …

Activists held a protest in Kiev in support of Erwin Ibrahimov and other Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars who have disappeared in the Crimea. As a correspondent of Krym.Realii reports, about 20 people came to the Russian Embassy in Ukraine with “Where is Erwin?” placards.

Human rights advocates, including representatives from the Crimea SOS public initiative and the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, as well as Crimean resident and former political prisoner in Russia Gennady Afanasiev, exhorted …

Record yields of wheat in Ukraine and Romania reduced grain export prices, forcing Russian grain to compete with them. Bloomberg cited data from the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies stating that wheat export prices declined by 1.8% ($162 per ton) as a result of bumper crops.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Russia and Romania are set for record crops and Ukraine is expected to reap its third-biggest since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. “Ukraine, Romania and …