At a session of the executive council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on April 4, Russia will present “a clear proposal” which will facilitate the Skripal case investigation, Russia’s permanent representative to the OPCW Alexander Shulgin told Rossiyskaya Gazeta in an interview.

“It is a simple, clear proposal, aimed at facilitating the investigation of the incident in Salisbury. I would not like to disclose it now, but believe me, it will be a good proposal, …

On Sunday, April 1, South Korea and the United States began joint military exercises, which were postponed during the Olympics in Pyeongchang. More than 10,000 American troops and about 290,000 South Korean troops are participating in the Foal Eagle maneuvers, reports DW.

The Foal Eagle exercises include ground troops, military aircraft, naval forces and special forces. Previously, the same number of troops participated in the exercises. Maneuvers will last about a month.

The American-South …

Expenditures for clearing every mine in the Donbas can exceed 800 million dollars, said the Minister for Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons of Ukraine, Vadym Chernysh to Radio Svoboda.

"[These are the] preliminary estimates of mine clearance. The area of Croatia is about fifty thousand square kilometers. In 20 years Croatia has spent a little over 800 million dollars for mine clearance of its territory: mine clearance for development in order to plow, sow and build there,” …

Supporters of the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline are "associates of Russia in its hybrid war,” said President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in an interview with Funke media group, March 31, Deutsche Welle reports.

Poroshenko ardently insists that constructing the pipeline poses a serious threat to Ukraine. On the one hand, according to the Head of State, Kyiv will annually lose two billion dollars in customs duties that were charged for the transit of Russian gas to Europe. On the …

The Court of Moscow has denied gerontologist Valery Novoselov’s request to disclose medical records containing details of medical treatment administered to Vladimir Lenin shortly before his death, as stated by Ivan Pavlov, Novoselov’s lawyer.  

“We will get a better understanding of the underlying reasons of the court’s ruling when we see the analytical part of the judgment, but we already can state that we are going to contest the ruling,” Pavlov said. “We believe that the decision of the …

The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture intends to launch sanctions against the directors and employees of Crimean museums involved in the illegal transport of Ukrainian cultural goods across the border, as stated by the Ministry in response to an inquiry by Krym.Realii.

"The use of museum items of the Museum Fund of Ukraine, stored in the relevant institutions of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, for exhibiting outside Ukraine is illegal," the Ministry said.

The …

World-renowned chess champion Garry Kasparov calls for a boycott of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Kasparov addressed his concerns to foreign politicians in his column for the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

A Russian Grandmaster, the 13th world chess champion Kasparov said that by boycotting the tournament at such a late stage, the individual teams would only be punishing themselves. "In principle, I do not favor late boycotts of sporting events, since I believe it …

The former president of Georgia and former governor of the Odessa region, Mikhail Saakashvili is getting ready to come back to the country that deported him not too long ago. "I am preparing to return to Ukraine; Ukrainian students should prepare for my return to Ukraine," the politician said on NewsOne on Friday, March 30.

Saakashvili is presently travelling through Europe on a mission for tourism education. "Several meetings are planned in the next few days. In a couple of days I will meet …