• NATO Silver Arrow 2016 military drills began in Latvia

    The Silver Arrow-2016 international military drills began in Latvia on Monday. This was reported on the website of the Latvian Ministry of Defense.

    The drills will continue until the 31st of October at a training ground in Ādaži. Over 3,000 servicemen from the NATO member countries of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Albania, the US, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and Romania are participating in these drills.

    “The purpose of these drills is to improve cooperation between the National …

  • Russian warships approached Latvia’s borders again

    The Armed Forces of Latvia have again discovered Russian warships near the country’s borders.

    The National Armed Forces of Latvia reported this on Twitter.

    Ships were recorded twice during the day on Sunday.

    “In the Latvian exclusive economic zone, at a distance of 11 nautical miles from the border, on October 16, Parchim-class corvette Kazanets from the Armed Forces of Russia has been identified,” the statement says.

    In addition, at a distance of eight nautical miles from the territorial …

  • The UK has frozen all of Russia Today accounts

    The Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today, Margarita Simonyan, tweeted on her Twitter page that all accounts of the multilingual Russia Today TV Company have been blocked in the UK.

    “All of our accounts have been blocked in the UK. The decision should be subject to review. Long live freedom of speech,” she tweeted.

    As previously reported, an investigation into the case against the Kremlin’s English language Russia Today TV Channel, which published inaccurate information about a gas production …

  • Experts: Lifting sanctions on Russia would bring serious consequences for the EU

    The sanctions introduced against Russia have given a very clear signal to the Russian Federation and the rest of the world that its violation of the rights and territorial integrity of other countries would lead to an appropriate response. Their removal would have serious implications for the EU, says an expert report of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, published with the support of Rasmussen Global.

    "Removing the sanctions without serious political concessions …

  • Poland could increase gas supplies to Ukraine three fold

    Poland can increase gas supplies to Ukraine three fold. This can happenen if the planned expansion of the gas pipelines with Ukraine takes place by the end of 2019. This will allow to increase transportation volumes of natural gas from the current 1.5 billion cubic meters to 5-6 billion cubic meters. Ukrinform reports, citing Piotr Naimsky, the Government Commissioner on Strategic Energy Infrastructure Issues of Poland.

    “There is a project on Polish-Ukrainian communications development. …