Washington is not afraid of a possible build-up of the Russian military presence at the borders of NATO countries after the Zapad 2017 exercises, as indicated by the Permanent Representative of the United States to NATO, Kay Bailey Hutchison, in response to questions from The Washington Post.

"I cannot say for sure, but our people have been closely watching and they have no fears," the diplomat said. She added that the exercises were a "big show." "We watched it as much as we could," …

Polish specialists have managed to repel the hacker attack from Russia, stated Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz during the Polish radio broadcast.

"This is the third time that we have encountered a cyber-attack from Russia; fortunately, Poland has managed to repel it. The attack was committed against enterprises in Ukraine that have offices in other countries. In other European countries, they had to be blocked, but not in Poland. We managed to make sure that the attack did not …

The Chervonozavodskiy District Court of Kharkiv granted the Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office access to documents and contracts from the state-owned Centrenergo company regarding the import of Donbas contraband coal from Russia under the guise of South African coal, as reported by the news website Liga.net, citing the court's decisions on October 2nd – 5th.

Criminal proceedings regarding the illegal coal operations began in April 2017 in accordance with the "Abuse of power or official …

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has forbidden banks, their branches, and offices to conduct operations with banknotes and coins issued by the Russian Central Bank, which depict objects located on the annexed territory, as reported on the NBU website.

The ban applies to the monetary units of the Russian Federation with maps, symbols, buildings, monuments, archeological monuments, architecture, history, landscapes and any other objects located on the territory of Ukraine occupied by Russia; …

Six employees of the Main Military Construction Department No. 6 (formerly Dalspetsstroy of Russia), which built the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Khabarovsk, have launched a hunger strike beginning October 13.

The builders are demanding payment for outstanding wages that they have not received since April, writes local newspaper Vostok-Media.

The employees notified law enforcement, as well as supervisory bodies and the management of the company, of the protest in advance.

"Pavel Buianovsky, …

The United States’ deployment of missile launch systems at the anti-missile defense base in Romania violates the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Georgiy Borisenko, Director of the North America Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told RIA Novosti in an interview.

He noted that the US “has been making such claims against us for four years already, but they have presented no real evidence that we are violating anything anywhere”. “Only some pictures from Google Earth, …

The former head of the Russia Ministry of Finance and head of the Center for Strategic Research, Alexei Kudrin, said that in the recent years, including the period after the introduction of sanctions, direct foreign investment in the Russian economy declined sevenfold. Kudrin discussed this issue during the Moscow Exchange Forum 2017 in New York, RBC news agency reports.

"Foreign direct investment in our country used to reach 70 billion dollars a year before the crisis of 2009 and immediately …

The Joint Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe met on Thursday, October 12 but failed in its objective to create a working group that would explore ways to reform the Council of Europe so that Russia may rejoin, wrote representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe, Dmytro Kuleba on Facebook.

"During the meeting, they were supposed to decide on the creation of a working group that, in fact, had to …