Prior to the start of the Russian-Belarusian Zapad-2017 military exercises, the United States decided to strengthen the air police mission of the Baltic States by sending seven F-15C Eagle fighters. They landed at the Lithuanian Air Force base in Siauliai on Tuesday, reported the Lithuanian edition of Delfi, citing the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense.

For the last two years, the mission from Lithuania had four allied fighters. About 140 soldiers from the U.S. base in Great Britain will …

Kavkaz.Realii reports, citing employees of human rights organizations working in the Chechnya, that Chechen security forces have drawn up a list of cultural figures that may be homosexual.

"Two or three dozen names of cultural figures, mainly singers, are on this list. They became known from people who were kept in secret prisons for gays," said a worker at one of the local NGOs.

According to an employee of another non-governmental organization, at least three gay detainees were asked about …

The Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, in an interview with Dozhd (Rain TV), said that Russians were beginning to face difficulties in obtaining U.S. visas long before the decision was made to reduce the number of staff in the U.S. diplomatic mission in Russia.

According to her, as early as May 2017, citizens began to address the Russian Foreign Ministry with questions about why the U.S. Embassy began requesting visa applications 40-50 days ahead of travel instead of ten …