By 2020, when the main part of the State Defense procurement is complete, the financial stability of state enterprises should be maintained by producing civilian products, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated during his visit to the Ufa Engine Industrial Association (UEIA), as reported on the Kremlin’s website.

The main task of Russian industry, as noted by the Russian President, is mastering the production of modern and competitive civilian products. At the same time Putin stressed that …

Maros Sefcovic, the European Commissioner for the Energy Union encouraged Russia and Ukraine to discuss the future of the transit of Russian gas through the territory of Ukraine after the Stockholm Arbitration passes its decision.

“We have discussed the dynamics of exporting Russian gas over the past year and we’ve concluded that the export volumes were quite impressive, and that the transit of gas through Ukraine played a very important role supplying gas to Europe. From our viewpoint, this …

TASS reported that according to the Moldovan Border Police, the famed Russian novelist Dmitry Miropolsky was denied entry into Moldova. Raisa Novitchi, a spokesperson from the Border Police stated, “The incident has occurred. We’re ascertaining the reasons for what happened, which we will share later."

According to the writer himself, the border police claimed to refuse his entry because he had not confirmed the purpose of his visit to the country. Miropolsky was slated to deliver a lecture on …

The Head of the Ukrainian Delegation to the EU, Mykola Tochytskyi, said that he is concerned about a report by the television channel Euronews on children in the Crimea.

"I'm more than concerned, not to say shocked, by the Euronews report ... I really hope that the above-mentioned news broadcast by Euronews is a terrible editorial error, and has not been made with the goal of acting in favor of Russian propaganda. It would be a big mistake to allow Russia to use Euronews, a leading European …

Russia has adopted a new state armament program which will extend from 2018 to 2027, said Putin during a meeting of United Engine-Building Corporation and Ufa Engine-Building Production Association, Interfax reports.

According to him, the military-industrial sector will work consistently and steadily.

On January 24, the Russian President said that after 2020, when the peak of the state defense order will be over, the defense companies will have to maximize their production of civilian …

On January 24, army corps of the Black Sea Fleet’s artillery units began conducting exercises at the Angarskyi training site in the Crimea, as reported by the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry.

"Howitzer artillery crews, multiple launch rocket systems, and mortar units will conduct training actions on preparing units for combat and complete testing of engineering equipment and masking and retargeting maneuvers," the report said.

According to the department, the exercises are …

The Investigative Committee of Russia accused the Ukrainian military of opening fire on a bus near Olenivka in the Donbass on January 21.

The committee website stated, “The investigation has every reason to believe that this was a targeted shooting of the bus full of civilians, by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard of Ukraine using automatic firearms, carrying out orders of senior officials in violation of the protocol on the ceasefire in the southeast of Ukraine."

The Russian …

The Javelins in the Ukrainians’ hands could change how the Russian military perceives the conflict in eastern Ukraine, and force it to revise its behavior, stated the former commander of US ground forces in Europe, (retired) General Ben Hodges, during a briefing of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the Helsinki Commission).

“I don’t know how the Ukrainians will use them, but I am convinced that the Russians will monitor the location of the Javelins, because it is a very …