• Israeli Defense Minister: Syria’s Air Defense system will be destroyed if used against Israeli Air Force

    Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday that Syria’s air defense systems will be destroyed if they fire on Israeli planes.

    “The next time the Syrians use their air defense systems against our planes we will destroy them without the slightest hesitation,” Lieberman said while speaking to new military recruits at a military base in the central part of the country, as reported by the Israeli radio station Reshet Bet.

    According to a press release by the Israeli Defense Forces, …

  • Right-wing radicals in Poland protest against the 'Ukrainization of the job market'

    Right-wing radicals in Poland held a protest to show their disagreement with the government’s eastern migration policy, Polish radio reported.

    Representatives and supporters, especially the “National-Radical Camp” (ONR) and the “All-Polish Youth” protested outside the Prime Minister’s office against the government’s eastern immigration policy and against Ukrainians coming to Poland.

    The protesters believe that a “Ukrainization” of the Polish job market is taking place.

    “In our opinion, this …

  • Human rights activists: Two Crimean Tatars disappeared in the Crimea

    Two local residents have disappeared in the Crimea - Rizvan Abduramanov and Mudessir Isaev, Crimean activists report. In particular, according to Nariman Dzhelal, Rizvan Abduramanov, born on May 25, 1968, who is a resident of Batalne in the Leninsky district, made a trip to Feodosia seeking employment on November 10th. "His documents were found in Feodosia in early December. To this day the whereabouts of Rizvan are unknown," he said. In addition, as reported by Krym.Realii, citing …

  • Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Turkey does not recognize the annexation of the Crimea

    Turkey declared its support for the territorial integrity of Ukraine and the non-recognition of the annexation of the Crimea by Russia, as said in a statement by the Turkish Foreign Ministry on the occasion of the third anniversary of the annexation of the peninsula.

    "Three years have passed since the Ukrainian Autonomous Republic of Crimea was annexed by the Russian Federation on the basis of an illegal referendum on March 16, 2014," the statement says.

    Turkey emphasizes that it does not …

  • Russian official: Russia may review its nuclear security measures if U.S. deploys nuclear weapons in South Korea and Japan

    The Head of the Defense Committee of the Federation Council of Russia, Viktor Ozerov, said that, if necessary, the Russian Federation might analyze and review measures to strengthen its nuclear security.

    Ozerov made this statement in response to the words of U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson about the possible emergence of nuclear weapons in South Korea and Japan to contain the threat from North Korea.

    "I do not think that the deployment of nuclear weapons in South Korea and Japan poses a …

  • Head of LPR declared the beginning of coal supplies to the Crimea

    Enterprises in the LPR (Luhansk People’s Republic) have begun to supply coal to the Crimea, as stated by the leader of the Luhansk separatists, Igor Plotnitsky, RIA Novosti news agency reported.

    "We deliver [coal] by railroad through Rostov and via the ferry, for now. I think a two-year contract was signed. These are real things that are already taking place, and believe me this is only the beginning," Plotnitsky said.

    He indicated that the LPR intends to "deepen economic cooperation with the …

  • Ukrainian Foreign Ministry: Russia has not fulfilled a single point of the Minsk agreements

    The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine urged foreign partners to understand why the ban of shipping traffic across the contact line has been implemented. According to the statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia has not yet fulfilled a single point of the Minsk accords.

     “We have to state once again that Russia has not yet fulfilled any point of the Minsk Agreements. Obviously, there is absolutely no political will of Moscow to fulfill them,” the statement says.

    As the Spokesperson of …

  • Former head of Russia's Roskosmos found dead in Moscow

    Vladimir Yevdokimov, former executive director of the state corporation “Roskosmos”, arrested on charges of fraud, was found dead in the Investigatory Isolation Center in northern Moscow, Interfax reported with reference to a source in the law enforcement agencies.

    “Yevdokimov’s body was discovered this morning in one of the cells of SIZO-5 (Investigatory Isolation Center) on Vyborg street. The cause of death is being established,” the source said. He added that an investigative team had …

  • Kosovo forms army despite NATO’s protests

    In spite of the sharp objections of NATO, the EU and the US, the Kosovo authorities are not backing down from their intention to create their own army. As reported by the Zeri newspaper published in Pristina on Saturday March 18, 51 million euros are to be allocated to the creation of the army.

    According to the publication, this amount will grow annually by 5 million euros.

    According to the plan, the army will consist of 8 000 military personnel, 3 000 of whom will be reservists, the …

  • The Head of the Crimea proposes to make Putin President for Life

    Vladimir Putin should be President for life. The head of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov expressed such an opinion during a broadcast on the TV channel "Russia 24", while commenting on his recent statement regarding establishing a monarchy in Russia.

    According to the head of the Republic, he had in mind not a change of the constitutional order, but rather of the authority of the leader. "I have cited certain analogies about the fact that, for example, if our President Vladimir Vladimirovich had been in …