The decree of Russia’s Federation Council (upper house of Russia’s parliament) on setting March 18, 2018 as the date for the Russian presidential elections was approved. Thus, the presidential campaign was officially launched in Russia.

As is known, on December 6th, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his participation in the presidential elections for the fourth time; he will go to the elections as independent candidate.

It was reported that the Prime Minister of the Russian …

The Ambassadors from Canada and Great Britain to Ukraine, Roman Waschuk and Judith Gough, condemned the attempts by activists of the New Forces Movement to enter the premises of the October Palace (International Center of Culture and Arts) in Kyiv to establish their headquarters there.

"Attempts to capture and destroy public buildings are an abuse of the right to peaceful protest," Roman Waschuk wrote on Twitter. Judith Gough made the same statement.The Chief of the National Police of Ukraine, …

The US military captured the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The leader of the terrorist group is at the US military base in Syria, reports the Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak citing its sources.

According to the source of the newspaper, al-Baghdadi was captured in Iraq, and then taken to the US base in the Syrian city of Ras al-Ayn. After that, the leader of the terrorist organization was transported to a military base near the city of Al-Hasakah.

"The leader was captured …

In an interview for Strana.ua, former Odessa governor Mikheil Saakashvili refuted the claims that he had written a letter to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko with a peace offer.

Saakashvili says that he does not intend to come to a compromise with Poroshenko. “I will attack them more than ever,” he said when asked about the rumors of him coming to an agreement with Poroshenko.

The Ukrainian news outlet Insider reported earlier that Saakashvili had sent Poroshenko a letter asking for …

The parents of Grigory Tsurkanu, who was allegedly taken prisoner by ISIS militants, told about the visit of members of the Wagner private army.

According to Valentina Tsurkanu, the mother, an unknown man came to her on December 4 and told her that her son died from injuries, and the second prisoner, Roman Zabolotny, was killed by militants. The woman said that this person called himself a representative of the “organization,” as reported by the Dozhd TV channel. That’s what the soldiers of …

The Central Intelligence Agency of the United States gave the Russian special services information that helped to prevent bombings in St. Petersburg, the Kremlin press service reported.

It was reported that on December 17, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the head of the White House, Donald Trump, to thank him for the information that was sent.

Vladimir Putin thanked Donald Trump for the information provided by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, which led to the arrest of terrorists …

The Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine’s Autonomous Republic of the Crimea reported that 75 former deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (the Supreme Council of Crimea) were put on wanted list as of December 2017,  Krym.Realii reports citing the press service of the Prosecutor's Office.

The Prosecutor's Office also provided the names of 56 ex-deputies of the Crimean Verkhovna Rada against whom criminal cases have been opened.

At the same time, the Prosecutor's Office …

Responding to the words of the US State Secretary Rex Tillerson, who called for increased pressure on North Korea, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov urged to end  “the threats race" against Pyongyang.  

"It is time to stop engaging in this race of threats, pressure, blackmail, putting forward preconditions and turn to a real search for a political solution," Ryabkov said.

Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia called the US position on North Korea "sad", because the US "introduced a …