Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has claimed that Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini told him that Finland is ready to participate in a UN peacekeeping mission, in the case of its introduction to the Donbas.

"Our Finnish friends are essentially ready to participate in the upcoming peacekeeping operation, but now they have to put pressure on Russia so that it would be a real peacekeeping operation, not an operation to allow Russia legitimizing its protectorate in the occupied …

At the meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Council, Ukraine called on the representatives of the parliaments of NATO’s member countries not to recognize the results of elections of Russia’s President in annexed Crimea, Iryna Friz, People's Deputy of Ukraine said.

"We called on the parliaments of the country-members of the Alliance not to recognize the results of the ‘elections’ of Vladimir Putin as the President of Russia in annexed Crimea because it is a violation of international law. When …

The rector of the St. Petersburg Mining University, Vladimir Litvinenko, personally wrote a thesis for Russian President, Vladimir Putin, as indicated by his daughter, Olga Litvinenko, Radio Liberty reports.

"One of Vladimir Putin’s secrets, which Olga Litvinenko knows very well, is how he [Putin] defended his Ph.D. thesis," the publication writes.

He defended his thesis in 1997 at the St. Petersburg Mining University, now a university headed by Vladimir Litvinenko. At that time, Putin …

A Russian State Duma Deputy, Alexey Zhuravlev (non-factional) came under fire on Monday in the Donbas, as he stated to RIA Novosti.

"I wanted to be assured of today's announced ceasefire. We arrived at the Pyatnashka battalion’s location and came under mortar fire. One of the cars was disabled, we had to turn around and leave," he said.

According to unofficial data, the shelling occurred in the town of Kruta Balka near Yasynuvata.

Zhuravlev is the chairman of the Russian Rodina (Fatherland) …

Russia is technically prepared to disconnect from the global Internet, but the process would not be painless. German Klimenko, Adviser to the Russian President on Internet Development, stated this in an interview with the program "Pozdnyakov" on the channel NTV.

"In and of itself, there are no hardware-software dangers that should prevent us from living good and well, even if a war similar to the isolation of Crimea is declared against us [Russia]," the Presidential Adviser said.

He noted …

On Monday March 5 a humanitarian aid convoy arrived in the besieged region of Eastern Ghouta, two weeks after the offensive operation was resumed by the Assad government forces, Radio Liberty reports.

The convoy included 46 trucks sent by the international Red Cross, the Syrian Red Crescent, and the UN.

The Syrian army allowed the humanitarian convoy to offload food for 27,000 needy Syrians out of Ghouta’s total population of roughly 400,000. However, according to the people in charge of the …

An An-26 transport plane crashed during landing at the Khmeimim airbase, killing 32 people onboard, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

According to the Ministry of Defense, there were 26 passengers onboard the plane and 6 crew members.

"The plane hit the ground about 500 meters short of the runway,"-the ministry said.

The Defense Ministry said that they would study all possible causes of the crash. But, according to preliminary data, the cause of the crash could be a technical …

The Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, believes that the United States wants to implement plan “B” for Syria, which will change the regime of power in the country. He stated this at a joint press conference with the Foreign Minister of Namibia, Interfax reported.

Sergey Lavrov said that he became aware, from various sources, of the existence of a group of Americans who are developing plans for the collapse of Syria.

In particular, Western partners led by the United States are trying …