• Act of terror in Russia, initial information points to radical Islamists

    On April 3 there was an explosion in a Saint Petersburg metro. The device went off while the train was traveling the stretch between the Sennaya Ploshchad and Tekhnologichesky Institut metro stations. According to official information, 10 people were killed and 47 injured. However, the local media talks about 14 casualties. The authorities have not yet confirmed this information.

    The investigative committee announced that criminal proceedings were being initiated according to article 205 of …

  • Amazon will launch in Ukraine this year

    Ukrposhta, the Ukrainian Postal Service plans to bring the American electronic commerce company Amazon to Ukraine, said postal service General Director Igor Smelyansky on Channel 5. Amazon.com is the world's largest seller of products and services via the Internet.

    "Presently we really want to bring Amazon to our country. We are working on this with our partners now because this is international mail and some time is needed,” he said. “Logistically, we are ready but this launch assumes …

  • Russian Orthodox Church wants to bury Lenin's body

    Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church insist on the burial of the mummified body of Vladimir Lenin, reports RIA Novosti.

    According to Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, it is necessary to wait for "agreement in society" in the burial of Vladimir Lenin's body. Although, in his words, the Mausoleum and the "mummified body" are a "relic of the past".

    "If this was not done then, we now need to wait …

  • Prosecutor General of Ukraine talks about 1.2 million unsolved cases

    Yuriy Lutsenko, Prosecutor General of Ukraine, said that the General Prosecutor’s Office together with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) is investigating 1,2 million cases, the German news outlet Bild reports.

    “The problem is that my organization is much larger than the NABU. I have 10,000 employees, and 800 of them are investigators. The NABU has a total of 220 detectives. Together we are responsible for 150,000 state officials, and currently there are 1.2 million cases at …

  • Ukrainian army adds new armored vehicle to its arsenal

    On March 21, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Stepan Poltorak, signed order No. 158, authorizing the use of the Kozak-2 armored personnel carrier in the Ukrainian Armed Forces after it passed all state trials.

    According to the order, the vehicle was accepted “in accordance with the procedure for the development and release of new types of defense equipment, and taking into account the positive results of the government tests, with the goal of providing the Ukrainian Armed Forces with …

  • Prosecutor General of Ukraine: the killer of former Russian Duma MP visited separatist-held Donetsk before committing the crime

    The killer of former State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov, former National Guard of Ukraine employee Pavel Parshov, visited the territory of the Donbas on March 6 and made contact with pro-Russian separatists. This was stated by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Yuriy Lutsenko in an interview with Bild.

    "On March 6, the killer was in the separatist-held territory, namely in Donetsk ... It's forbidden for the National Guard of Ukraine to stay in this area. We searched the apartment where he was …

  • Anti-Corruption Bureau checking National Bank of Ukraine for involvement in loss of billions due to refinancing of insolvent banks

    The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) is checking the legal basis of directing funds towards the refinancing of certain Ukrainian banks as well as the involvement of the leadership of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) in this process. This was stated Artem Sytnyk, Chairman of the NABU.

    "For several months already we have been conducting criminal proceedings that involve the management of the NBU, related to the spending of money allocated to a number of commercial banks for …

  • Hundreds of anti-Ukraine sites will be shut down

    Deputy Minister of Information Policy Dmytro Zolotukhin said during his interview with ZIK channel that there are already hundreds of websites that must be shut down because of the threat they pose to Ukraine’s national interests. According to him, he received lists of sites recommended for closure and lists of sources that are already blocked from volunteers.

    “That means that the lists already exist... I will not disclose the number of such sites. There are hundreds of sites, which means they …

  • Combat helicopters of the Turkish Air Force will receive new high-precision missiles

    Combat helicopters of the Turkish Air Force will soon be armed with the latest anti-tank missiles with a range of eight kilometers, reports Anatolian news agency.

    The L-UMTAS missile with a laser guidance system was developed by Roketsan Company. The Turkish Air Force began receiving the L-UMTAS missiles several years ago. The missile was specially designed for the attack helicopters developed by Turkey as a part of ATAK project.

    The Minister of National Defense of Turkey, Fikri Işık said …

  • Russian military conducts artillery exercises in annexed Crimea

    On Sunday, April 2, artillery drills were conducted by the Russian Army and Russian Marine Corps in the annexed Crimea.

    This was related by Captain 1st Rank Vyacheslav Trukhachev, chief of the information department of the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet.

    “In Crimea, at the sea training site of Opuk, exercises of the Black Sea Fleet’s army and marine infantry artillery units were conducted as part of the final inspection of the winter training period to verify the combat readiness of these …