The Norwegian Police Security Service stated that the Russian special services attempted to influence the Nobel Committee in order to avoid awarding the Peace Prize to the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, as reported by the Norwegian public broadcasting company NRK.

To discredit Poroshenko, in the summer of 2015, the Russian TV channel Sputnik disclosed a letter signed by the then Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Volodymyr Groysman, addressed to the U.S. Ambassador to Norway.

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The head of Germany’s Christian Social Union in Bavaria party and Bavaria’s Prime Minister, Horst Seehofer, stated that sanctions on Russia should be lifted as early as this year, TASS reported.

Seehofer’s party is an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats.

Speaking during an interview with Bild am Sonntag, Seehofer said, "The sanctions against Russia should be lifted as early as this year. Russia should also return to the G8 circle.”

"We need to abandon the bloc mentality as …

Serbia is sending weapons and military to northern Kosovo with the aim of dividing the country, as stated by the President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, in an interview with Deutsche Welle.

"We know that Serbia has a plan for Kosovo’s division and that Belgrade is arming Serbs in the north," he said. He also noted that he has evidence that Serbia is sending weapons there as well as people, both civilian and military.

Thaçi added that Russians are actively helping Serbia by preparing paramilitary …