• Ukrainian MPs call on international community to strengthen sanctions against Russia because of Syria

    A group of deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine called the international community to tighten sanctions on Russia because of its actions in Syria.

    This group's stance was explained in the statement "regarding the criminal actions of the regime of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russia in Syria", published on the website of the Verkhovna Rada.

    The statement was initiated by the First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Iryna Herashchenko, Chairperson of the …

  • In addition to MiG-29s, Serbia will receive 30 tanks and 30 armored vehicles from Russia for free

    Serbia will receive six MiG jet fighters, 30 tanks and 40 armored vehicles from Russia free, as reported by the Prime Minister of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić after meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu, the Serbian Tanjug agency reports.

    According to Vučić, aircraft modernization will cost Serbia 180 to 230 million euro. "If we purchased such aircraft with the missiles we want, it would cost us around 600 million euro,” Vučić said.

    The Serbian Prime Minister said equipment from the …

  • Shoygu proposed to make Russian-Serbian BARS-2016 tactical drills an annual event

    The Russian Minister of Defense, Army General Sergey Shoygu, stated at an informal meeting with the Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, that the BARS flight and tactical drills (Brotherhood of Aviators of Russia and Serbia) which took place in October in Serbia should be made an annual event.

    “The BARS-2016 flight and tactical drills were successfully held in October in Serbia. It is very pleasing that BARS stands for the Brotherhood of Aviators of Russia and Serbia. That is a good …

  • Putin: Sanctions hinder the fight against terrorism

    Russian President Vladimir Putin stated at a meeting with representatives from both chambers of the Russian parliament that “the economic and political constraints divide the countries and do not allow them to join forces in the fight against terrorism”, RIA Novosti reported.

    "All restrictions in the economic sphere, in the political sphere - they divide the states and do not allow them to join forces in the fight against the common evil — terrorism. We are taking hits because of this — both …

  • American journalist refused to apologize for his article about the murder of Russian ambassador

    A journalist for the American newspaper New York Daily News, Gersh Kuntzman, refused to apologize for an article about the murder of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, whom he compared with the ambassador of the Third Reich.

    Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry official spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that the agency would send a letter demanding an apology from the New York Daily News for an article in which Karlov was compared to an ambassador of the Third Reich. According to …