• NATO Secretary General hopes for rapid solution of a dispute between Ukraine and Hungary

    During the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Warsaw, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated that he is in constant contact with Hungary and Ukraine regarding their dispute over the Ukrainian Education Law, the Voice of America reports. Hungary insists there must be a revision of NATO programs regarding Ukraine.     

    Stoltenberg noted that NATO is in constant contact with Ukrainian officials, stating: “I am in constant contact with President Poroshenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs Klimkin …

  • Canadian opposition demands weapons intended for the Kurds in Iraq be sent to Ukraine instead

    CTV reported on Monday that the Conservative Party of Canada, which currently serves as Canada’s Official Opposition party, has proposed that the country’s government transfer lethal weapons previously intended for delivery to the Kurds in Iraq to Ukraine instead.

    "They [the ruling Liberal Party of Canada] have been allowing these weapons to sit in storage and collect dust and, meanwhile, the violence in Ukraine has taken on a new spring offensive," conservative politician James Bezan claimed. …

  • Russia's Gazprom requests reversal of Stockholm Arbitration Court decision regarding Ukraine's Naftogaz dispute

    On Monday, May 28, Gazprom sent an appeal to the Svea Court of Appeal in Stockholm for a full reversal of the Stockholm Arbitration Court’s earlier decision regarding the transit contract dispute between Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukraine.

    Gazprom said that an unauthorized person intervened in the Stockholm Arbitration Court’s verdict process, which decided that the Russian company Gazprom must pay a US $4.7 billion fine to Naftogaz Ukraine.

    According to Interfax, Gazprom released a clarifying …

  • Russia continues to reinforce Donbas border

    Russian border guards are placing barbed-wire barriers and digging anti-tank ditches on the border with the so-called Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR), Alexander Belokobylsky wrote in an article for Radio Liberty.

    There is evidence for this in stories on YouTube and in satellite images from Google. Russia’s border construction process can also be monitored using information from the country’s state purchases website.

    The official explanation is the fight against smuggling. …

  • Russia arrests Ukrainian MP Herashchenko in absentia

    The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has arrested Anton Herashchenko, a board member of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Ukraine and former adviser to the interior minister, in absentia RBC news agency reports, citing Basmanny Court secretary Yunona Tsareva. The secretary also clarified that the ruling was made on May 22.

    A criminal case has been filed against Herashchenko according to Sec. 2 Art. 205.2 of Russia’s Criminal Code (public calls to carry out terrorist activity, public …