On March 12th Interfax.ru reported that the CEO of the State Corporation Rostec, Sergey Chemezov, said that Russia has weapons to use against the swarm of tiny drones recently demonstrated in the US.

"The JSC company, Radio-Electronic Technologies, has created a system of electronic warfare which renders the control systems of these drones useless." The installed radio electronic equipment burns down and the drone becomes just a piece of metal," he said in an interview with Vesti Nedeli, which …

According to the chairman of the Committee for Nationalities of the Russian State Duma (Russian Parliament) Ruslan Balbek, a bill has been introduced in the State Duma that would establish a new principle of obtaining citizenship on the basis of "jus soli" (birthright citizenship) as reported by RIA Novosti.

"The main criterion will be knowledge of the Russian language, as well as connection with the territories of the Soviet Union and the former Russian Empire," Balbek explained.

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The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office gave the Ukrainian prosecutor a bogus residential address for former president Viktor Yanukovych as stated by Ruslan Kravchenko, Prosecutor of the Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine (PGO), while on air with 112 Ukraine TV Channel.

“The Russian Prosecutor’s General Office gave us a bogus residential address for the suspected individual, Yanukovych,” he said.

“After that we sent requests to all the possible residential addresses and whereabouts …

One of the founders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Vladimir Makovich, has died in Donetsk, as was reported on his Facebook page by the former Deputy Foreign Minister of the DPR, Boris Borisov.

Interfax cited the head of the News Front agency, Konstantin Knyrik, in reporting that the cause of death was a heart attack.

In April 2014, Makovich read the declaration on the statehood of the independent republic. In July of the same year he served as a speaker of the Supreme …

The meeting of Russian and US presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump could take place at the G20 summit in Hamburg in July, said Dmitry Peskov, Press Secretary to the Russian president.

“If we don’t arrange an earlier summit, their meeting presumably could take place at the G20 summit in Hamburg in July, because this is the first place where their paths could cross,” Peskov said in a CNN interview.

Responding to a question on what the first meeting of the two leaders could be, the press …

Singer Yulia Samoylova will represent Russian in the singing contest Eurovision 2017, which will be held in the Ukrainian capital in May. This was reported on Sunday, March 12, on Channel One Russia. Samoylova will sing the song “Flame is Burning.” Because she is disabled, the singer is confined to a wheelchair.

Disabled performers have participated before in Eurovision. In 2015, Polish singer Monika Kuszynska, confined to a wheelchair like Samoylova, sang in Vienna. Before that, in 2008, …

The Russian military in the Crimea has deployed a “Murmansk-BN” radio-electronic warfare system which is capable of detecting, monitoring and disrupting communications between NATO ships as far as the Mediterranean Sea, Crimean media reports.

“The Murmansk-BN is a coastal radio-electronic warfare system which performs radio reconnaissance, intercepts enemy signals and jams them on the entire short-wave range for up to 5000 km. The system is mounted on seven trucks. The antenna system is …

Author: Dmytro Snegiryov, Head of Prava Sprava public initiative.

The main objective of the economic blockade is to deprive separatist leaders and the separatist administration of funding.  Their main source of revenue is the sale of coal to Ukraine. According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), 47% of revenue from coal sales was spent on financing armed groups in the separatist republics. In the last year the volume of coal mined in the separatist-held territories increased by 49%, …