• Russia bans transit of Ukrainian trucks

    The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation has stopped the movement of registered Ukrainian freight transport on Russian territory.  According to their statement, this measure was introduced in response to the unlawful blocking of Russian vehicles on Ukrainian territory.  This ban will remain in effect until the situation is resolved in Ukraine.

    The Ministry believes that this blocking of trucks violates an agreement between the Ukrainian and Russian governments with regard to …

  • 'Normandy Four' meeting in Munich yields no results

    Pavlo Klimkin, who is the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine as well as a participant in the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the ‘Normandy Four’, has admitted that after the meeting held on the 13th of February, “there was not a single concrete result.”  He said that this meeting was only a preparation for the next upcoming meeting.    Klimkin’s Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, silently left the talks without providing journalists with comments.             

    A Kiev political science …

  • Saudi Arabia: Russia’s support for Syrian government will have serious consequences

    The Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that Moscow’s support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would have serious consequences, as reported by Deutsche Welle. “We informed the Russians that by taking the side of the Syrian President and Iraq, they will become participants of religious war. It is very, very dangerous,” the Head of the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated in an interview with a correspondant from Süddeutsche Zeitung. …

  • Polish Foreign Minister: NATO's old obligations to Russia are no longer relevant

    Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski believes that NATO should build up military infrastructure in Eastern Europe, despite the old obligations of the Alliance to Russia.

    He said this in a speech at the Munich Security Conference, according to a correspondent of Evropeiskaya Pravda in Munich.

    Waszczykowski said that the Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between NATO and Russia from 1997, in his opinion, has lost relevance and the Alliance is no longer obligated  …

  • US intelligence suspects Russia of supporting the Taliban

    Anonymous sources within US intelligence services suggest that Russia provides weapons and military training to the Taliban in Afghanistan. The West also suspects that Moscow’s support of the Taliban is guided by the Russia’s desire to undermine the pro-American government in Kabul, as reported by Rosbalt.

    According to information obtained by the Associated Press from US intelligence sources, evidence was found that Moscow supplied weapons to the Taliban in 2015, during the Islamic group’s …