The gas pipeline project, Nord Stream-2, is gradually being implemented, despite protests by Ukraine, the Baltic countries and Poland, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported.

“The pipes that were ordered have been delivered and the tender request for the pipe laying has been made. This has all been done with the approval of the German government and despite the sanctions against Russia,” Radio Poland quoted the German newspaper as saying.

According to the newspaper, intensive preparations for the …

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Sergey Shoygu, arrived in Crimea on Thursday, TASS reported. An official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry stated that Shoygu will hear reports on construction of military infrastructure and check the military sanatorium in the city of Saky.

The Head of the Russian Ministry of Defense will hear the reports of the Command of the Southern Military District and Black Sea Fleet on constructing military infrastructure. The Minister is …

Russian fighter jets bombed a hospital and pharmaceutical plant in Aleppo, Syria last night, reported Turkish channel TRT.

According to TRT, Russian military aircraft dropped phosphate bombs on a hospital in the area of Anadan in the north of the city, and also a thermobaric bomb on the Asia Pharmaceutical Plant in the area of Kafr Hamra. As a result, both buildings were destroyed.

TRT reports that Russian fighter planes have been bombing squares, markets, hospitals and civil defense centers …

On Friday, the EU Council extended sanctions against the Crimea, according to a report released by the Council.

The sanctions, which were due to expire next Thursday, are now set to expire on June 17th, 2017.

The sanctions include a ban on exporting EU goods to the Crimea as well as investing in the Peninsula and operating tourist services.

It is expected that sanctions against Russia will be extended for its annexation of the Crimea and its role in the war in eastern Ukraine.

The Russian Federation is forming a new motorized rifle division in Rostov on the border with the Donbas region of Ukraine, Interfax reported.

The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that construction is complete of “one of the most modern” military bases to house the 150th Motorized Rifle Division.

"Combat training of personnel will begin at the site in a few months. There it will be possible to perform a large range of practical exercises with military technology, and to engage in tactical …

An Estonian citizen who is suspected of fighting on the side of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, Vladimir Polyakov, will be extradited to Ukraine, Evropeyskaya Pravda reported.

This was announced on Friday after the Estonian Supreme Court did not approve Polyakov’s appeal.

"I am disappointed and now only hope that the government of Ukraine will fulfill the Minsk Agreements and grant amnesty to all combatants on the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. If this happens, …

Lyudmila Yanukovych, the wife of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, has opened an elite foodstuff shop called Mercury in Sevastopol, as reported to The Objective news outlet by a customer.

The portal notes that in this supermarket, anyone can buy products prohibited by sanctions. The store's website announces that customers are offered "delicacies from different countries" and "own-brand products of its own manufacture."

According to the portal, Lyudmila Yanukovych lives in …

The Commander-in-Chief of the Estonian Defense Forces, Lieutenant General Riho Terras, is of the opinion that NATO’s decision to deploy one battalion of ground forces to Poland and one to the Baltic countries is insufficient and that more thought should be given to strengthening deterrent forces at sea and in the air, Postimees reported.Terras made this statement at the meeting with the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe of NATO Allied Command Operations, General Curtis Scaparrotti, that took …