Hungary has made a decision to change the name of the position of the ministerial commissioner for Transcarpathia after Ukraine’s protest, said Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin.

 “The morning began with a conversation with my Hungarian counterpart Péter Szijjártó. Hungarians understood us and will change the name of their commissioner for Transcarpathia. We continue constructive work on all the other issues,” he wrote on his Twitter page.

In the summer of 2018, the …

Montenegro, Albania, Norway and Ukraine supported the EU’s proposal to extend sanctions against Russia until January 31, 2019, according to a statement by High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Federica Mogherini, posted on the EU Council website.

"The Candidate Countries Montenegro and Albania, and the EFTA country Norway, member of the European Economic Area, as well as Ukraine, align themselves with this declaration. They will ensure that their national …

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the death of the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko a "vile murder" and a "terror" attack.

According to the Kremlin website, Putin considers that the Zakharchenko "killers" chose "the path of terror, violence, intimidation" and allegedly "do not want to seek a peaceful, political solution to the conflict, do not want to conduct a real dialogue with the inhabitants of the southeast [of Ukraine]".

The Russian president believes …

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the assassination of the leader of DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko a “terrorist act,” and officially accused Kyiv of his killing.

“In Donetsk, the leader of the DPR, Zakharchenko has died as a result of a terrorist act. We have reasons to believe that the Kyiv regime is behind this murder,” said the official speaker of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

She also officially accused the Ukrainian authorities of abandoning the Minsk …

During the Normandy Format talks in Minsk in February 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to “crush” the Ukrainian troops. This is mentioned in a memoir by former French president François Hollande titled “Lessons of Power”.

“Poroshenko and Putin constantly raised their voices with each other. The Russian president was so worked up, that he started threatening to decisively crush his counterpart’s forces. This showed that there are Russian troops in eastern Ukraine. Putin …

The demand among Russians for property in European offshore havens with the consequent acquisition of citizenship is growing, finanz.ru reports.

Between January and August 2018, the number of applications by Russian citizens to purchase residential and commercial property in order to acquire Maltese or Cypriot citizenship rose by 40%, according to the consulting company Knight Frank.

Cyprus’s passport program requires applicants to invest at least €2 million in the economy, of which €500,000 …

Successor to Zakharchenko has been quickly chosen in Donetsk. Dmitry Trapeznikov, who until now has been deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the DPR became the head of the DPR, as announced at an emergency briefing in the press center of the Donetsk news agency.

The Chairman of the National Council of DPR, Denis Pushilin presented Trapeznikov to journalists. Trapeznikov read a statement after Pushilin’s presentation.

"The Territorial Defense command has made a decision. In …

In addition to the leader of the DPR Alexander Zakharchenko, there are 11 injured and killed people in the explosion in the restaurant Separ in Donetsk, , including the head of the youth movement "the stronghold of the Donbass" Natalia Volkova, Russian Interfax news agency reports. She received severe burns and was taken to Donetsk Trauma Center.

Earlier, the Investigative Committee of Russia, which began investigation into the murder of the DPR Leader, reported that in the the explosion that …