The Russian Government "hardly" has the money for the construction of the Kerch Strait Bridge in the Crimea, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev acknowledged that Russia lacks the money for the implementation of large-scale Crimean projects, in particular for the construction the bridge over the Kerch Strait and the Tavrida highway, he said during a meeting of the Presidium of the State Council of the Russian Federation on the development of the …

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Crimea on Thursday and visited the construction site of the Kerch Strait Bridge, according to the Kremlin press service. Before that, he held a meeting in Kerch on the development of the transport infrastructure of Southern Russia and the Crimea where he noted the good pace of the bridge construction.

"But I want to remind you that the transport passage across the Kerch Strait is not only the bridge itself: it is necessary to qualitatively prepare …

The EU Council has adopted a decision on the approval of the proposal to extend individual sanctions against 146 Russian and Ukrainian individuals, and against 37 legal entities. These sanctions were extended for six months, until the 15th of March 2017.

The sanctions apply to people and organizations who the EU considers responsible for the violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine, and who have caused damage to its sovereignty. Sanctions include the freezing of their bank assets in …

The Saeima of the Republic of Latvia supported the amendments to the law on associations, according to which, law enforcement agencies have the right to halt the activities of public organizations that pose a threat to security or order in the country, Delfi.lv reported. It is expected that the activities of public organizations that pose a threat to the country could be halted for up to two months according to the prosecutor’s decision.

On the basis of the conclusions of the State Security …

The Minister of Justice of Ukraine, Pavlo Petrenko, introducing the draft law on amendments to certain legislative acts of Ukraine regarding the recovery of unwarranted assets, stated that between $20 and $30 billion were stolen over the incomplete four years of Viktor Yanukovych’s regime, Ukrinform reported.

“According to various estimates of experts and law enforcement agencies, between $20 and $30 billion were withdrawn and stolen from the country’s budget over the incomplete four years of …

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that he expects the UN General Assembly to adopt a declaration recognizing human rights violations in the Crimea, particularly in regards to Crimean Tatars, Evropeyskaya Pravda reported.

Poroshenko said as much during his speech at the annual meeting of Yalta European Strategy in Kyiv.

"For two and a half days, I'll have a lot of meetings at the UN. We hope that the UN General Assembly will adopt a declaration on the violation of core human rights in …

The US Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, stated on September 15 that the United States will never recognize the Russian State Duma elections in the territory of annexed Crimea.

“I will remind you of the US position once again: The Crimea is and will always be part of Ukraine despite all possible legal actions of Russia. We will never recognize the Crimea as a part of Russia. We also don’t recognize the elections to the Russian State Duma that are taking place in the territory of the …

TASS reports that the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, Valery Gerasimov, stated that the Black Sea Fleet of Russia “is capable of destroying enemy landing forces in ports of their landing.” Gerasimov did not specify which ports or what country he was referring to but he noted that enemy landing forces “should not reach the Black Sea coast of the Crimea wherever they are coming from.”

Gerasimov stressed that the Black Fleet of Russia uses the Bastion coastal defense …