Fruit companies from the Netherlands and Belgium are supplying their products to Russia despite the sanctions imposed by the EU and Moscow’s counter sanctions, reported the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. The newspaper cites the information received during the negotiations between the suppliers of Belgian pears with Russian importers.

On August 7, 2014, Russia prohibited the importation of meat, fish, milk, vegetables and fruits from the EU. The President of Russia imposed a ban in the response …

The People’s Deputy of Ukraine, Iryna Friz, who heads Ukrainian delegation during the 64th session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Canada, announced on Facebook that the Committee on the Civilian Dimension of Security (CDS) of NATO unanimously condemned the construction of the Kerch Bridge.

According to Friz, the resolution, which was introduced by the Ukrainian delegation to be added to the Lord Joplin’s report “Counteraction to Russian Hybrid Threats”, included a new paragraph …

The press secretary for the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov stated that a deal between Russia and Japan about the return of the Kuril Islands is not possible, and anything said to the contrary is speculation, Interfax news agency reports.

“During the last few days, we have seen numerous arguments, political speculation that there is already some deal on the transfer of the islands and so on. It is not so,” he said.

According to him, the Russian leader and the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō …