• Polish Minister of Defense: Smolensk air disaster was not a coincidence

    Answering a question as to whether he believes that the April 10, 2010 crash of an aircraft near Smolensk (Russia) with Polish top government figures on board was a cold-blooded assassination, the Minister of National Defense of Poland, Antoni Macierewicz, said “the materials and investigation results bring us to a conclusion that this was not an accident,” and promised to release a final report in spring 2018.

    Macierewicz also said he expected a flood of disinformation and false data prior to …

  • Russian billionaire Suleyman Kerimov accused of €400 million tax fraud in France

    French media has published details of the case of Russian billionaire Suleyman Kerimov, who represents Dagestan in the Federation Council of Russia and whom the French authorities have accused of tax evasion and money laundering. The channel France 3 reports that the Russian senator has been accused of hiding about €400 million from taxation through the sale of real estate at a lower cost. The channel, citing the prosecutor of the city of Nice, added that the realtor involved in Mr. Kerimov’s …

  • US general says Ukraine could teach United States how to fight Russia

    In a speech at the Lviv Security Forum, Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, who commands U.S. land forces in Europe, says that the U.S. Army can learn something from Ukrainian soldiers, reports Evropeyskaya Pravda.

    “We have never done battle with Russian troops, and we have never had to deal with Russian electronic warfare. But Ukrainian soldiers have. That's why we can learn something from Ukrainian soldiers, and cooperation with Ukraine is beneficial for us,” said Hodges.

    He also said that some …

  • Montenegro suspects Kadyrov of involvement in an attempted coup

    Montenegrin prosecutors suspect that the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, campaigned for the leaders of the Montenegrin Muslim community to cooperate with the pro-Russian Democratic Front party, which, in their opinion, should lead to a change of power in the country, reported the Russian publication Izvestia.

    Podgorica believes that a criminal group including Russian nationalists planned a coup involving the assassination of Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic during the parliamentary elections …

  • US State department approves sale of weapons to Poland worth $500 million

    The United States Department of State has provided its consent to the possible sale of weapons worth USD 500 million to Poland. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense notified Congress of this decision.

    Half of the cost of the defense contract for Poland is for the HIMARS light multiple rocket launchers (USD 250 million).

    The other half of the order covers an arsenal of weapons ranging from artillery munitions to GPS-receivers. 

    In particular, Warsaw …