• US Senators and Congressmen criticize idea of ​​forming a group on cyber security with Russia

    Influential senators and members of the House of Representatives of the US Congress have criticized the idea of ​​creating a joint working group with Russia on cyber security, believing that Moscow should not be trusted in this sphere. They announced this on Sunday while speaking on a number of American TV channels.

    "I don’t think we can expect the Russians to be any kind of a credible partner in some cyber-security unit," said Adam Schiff (D-CA) on CNN. Schiff is the Ranking Member (senior …

  • Russian police arrest more than 100 Navalny supporters

    Police arrested 131 participants of “Agitator Saturdays” who were protesting in support of the policy of Russian opposition leader Aleksey Navalny. Such protests took place in several cities across Russia, OVD-Info website reports.

    Most of the arrests – at least 84 – took place in Moscow. OVD-Info reports that “in 18 cities, supporters of Navalny were subjected to arrest, searches or attacks during the day.”

    Among those arrested were 11 minors. According to OVD-Info, the father of one minor …

  • Parliamentary Assembly of OSCE adopts resolution on territorial integrity of Ukraine

    On Sunday, July 9th, in the Belarusian capital, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), at the final meeting of the 26th summer session, adopted a resolution proposed by the Ukrainian delegation on “Restoration of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.”

    This document, along with others, is the basis of the Minsk Declaration, which sets out recommendations for national governments, parliaments and the international community to respond to the pressing challenges and threats …

  • Russian detained by Ukrainian military during battle in Donbas confirms that he is on contract with Russian Army

    Viktor Ageyev, who has been captured in Donbass, confirmed that he was sent to the east of Ukraine after signing a contract for service in the Armed Forces of Russia, TSN reports.

    “I am a serviceman, part 65246 (located in the city of Novocherkassk, the communications regiment and the training center of the Russian Aerospace Forces - Ed.),” Ageyev said.

    He also confirmed that in March 2017 he came to the Rostov region and signed a contract for service in the Armed Forces of the Russian …

  • Russian colonel who took part in Donbas war arrested in Ukraine

    The State Border Guard Service (SBGS) of Ukraine arrested Russian Colonel Valery Gratov, whom Russian intelligence planned to make the “deputy minister of state security of Transnistria”.

    This was reported on July 9 by Oleh Slobodyan, assistant to the head of the SBGS. According to him, the arrest took place early in June.

    “The Ukrainian citizen Valery Georgievich Voytenko, born in 1954, arrived to exit Ukraine, and showed general civil control a Ukrainian citizen’s passport. He presented a …

  • Russian media reports mass execution of Chechen residents without trial

    In Chechnya on the night of 26 January 2017 there was supposedly a mass extrajudicial execution of 27 people, reports  Novaya Gazeta with reference to two sources, one in the office of the Russian Investigative Committee for Chechnya, and another in the republic’s administration.

    Novaya Gazeta does not know what the executed people were suspected of or the basis of their arrest.

    According to the publication’s information, all 27 of the victims were arrested in January during the mass arrests …

  • Ukrainian border guards: Russians create waiting lines at the administrative border with the Crimea

    On Saturday, the Russian border guard along the administrative border with the Russian-annexed peninsula created queues of cars, which were traveling to the Crimea from the mainland of Ukraine and back, as reported by Ukrinform, citing the Assistant Chief of the Berdyansk Border Guard and the head of its press service, Nelya Dotsenko.

    "On Saturday, a long line of vehicles that were traveling from mainland Ukraine to the annexed Crimea formed at the Ukrainian Chonhar checkpoint. At 6 a.m. there …

  • A Russian citizen accused of preparing a terrorist act in Belgium was detained in Italy

    According to Huffington Post, representatives of Italian prosecutors said that yesterday, July 7, a Chechen immigrant named Eli Bombataliev was arrested in Italy.

    Bombataliev has been accused of preparing a terrorist attack in Belgium. He and his wife Marina Kachmazova may have intended to commit a whole series of terrorist attacks.

    After studying the detainee’s phone, Italian law enforcement officers discovered that he had urged his wife to “blast herself.” The police found that Bombataliev …

  • Media: Former top managers of PrivatBank have left Ukraine to avoid investigation into the bank’s artificially created insolvency

    Former top managers of PrivatBank and members of its credit committee have long left Ukraine, while 11 persons involved in the PrivatBank case are on the international wanted list, reports in Zerkalo Nedeli ('Mirror Weekly').

    The publication writes that the case filed to bring PrivatBank to insolvency may reach a dead end.

    "How long has it been since the top management of the bank, like the members of the credit committee, appeared in public; and when was the last time they were seen in …

  • A resident of Crimea, owner of the Russian Medal for the Return of the Crimea, was deprived of a plot of land issued to him by Ukraine

    The Balaklava District Court of Sevastopol decided to confiscate 2,000 square meters of land from local resident, Lenur Usmanov, who actively supported the annexation of the Crimea and even received a medal "For the Return of the Crimea" from the Russian Defense Ministry.

    He told Novaya Gazeta newspaper that in 2010, both he and his wife had received two 1,000 square meter lots in the Druzhba-9 co-operative. But the current Kremlin-controlled administration of Sevastopol decided that the …