Press Secretary to the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the time when there were oligarchs in the country has passed.

“We consider the phrase ‘Russian oligarch’ to be inappropriate. It has been a long time since there were oligarchs in Russia. There are no oligarchs in Russia,” he said.

The representative of the Kremlin made this remark when a reporter asked him to comment on the fact that several oligarchs from Putin’s inner circle were invited to the U.S. for questioning.

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The issue of Ukraine was discussed at the meeting between the US President and the leaders of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia within the framework of the United States-Baltic Summit.  

"When we discussed security in the region as a whole, we raised the issue of the situation in Ukraine, we talked about Russia's actions, about Ukraine's security and support for Ukraine," the President of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaitė, said to the Voice of America.

Grybauskaitė stressed that Trump is aware of the …

A group of American Coast Guard specialists will visit Ukraine in May to finalize details and sign a contract for the transfer of two Island-class boats to Ukraine, as announced at a briefing by Ukrainian Head of State Petro Poroshenko in Kyiv."The Ministry of Defense is going through internal procedures for the completion and approval of a draft contract that we received from the American side," he said.

Poroshenko said that, under preliminary terms, the transfer of the boats will be provided …