Russia can withdraw from the World Trade Organization (WTO) in case the EU's claim to recover 1.39 billion euros per year from Russia due to the restriction on pork imports is satisfied. The very fact that the EU sanctions were introduced against Russia completely contradicts the principles of the WTO, the first deputy head of the economic committee of the Council of Federation Sergey Kalashnikov said to RIA Novosti on Sunday.

Earlier, Politico reported that the European Union intends to …

Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee for Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Leonid Kalashnikov, while commenting on Ukraine’s intention to recognize the USSR as an occupier, said that Ukraine must be ready to give up Kharkiv, Dnipro, Donbas and other territories handed over to it in Soviet times, reports RIA Novosti.

According to the Russian deputy, half what today comprises Ukraine would have to be returned to Russia.

“If you take this seriously, half of what comprises …

Crimean legal experts and attorneys intend to start a legal campaign to protect the Khan’s Palace in Bakhchysarai, attorney Emil Kurbedinov wrote on his Facebook page.

“Our team of attorneys and legal experts intends to start a legal campaign to protect the Khan’s Palace in Bakhchysarai from baseless assaults on the historical population of Crimean Tatars, a cultural heritage site! In general, I can say that primarily we intend to acquire official responses from the Russian Federation on the …

In a broadcast of Channel 5, Director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance Volodymyr Viatrovych called the period during which Ukraine was part of the USSR “the Bolshevik occupation”.  

“It was the Soviet occupation, the establishing of first a Bolshevik, then a communist occupation regime,” he said. Viatrovych also referred to a need for “legislative acts which would clearly document the current Ukraine’s succession of the Ukrainian People’s Republic”.

“One of these elements …

Two U.S. military aircraft conducted a reconnaissance flight along virtually the entire coast of the Crimea on the Black Sea, Interfax reported.

Data of the websites monitoring the air traffic showed that the U.S. Air Force RQ-4A Global Hawk strategic unmanned aircraft, tail number 12-2050, flew for several hours on January 7, cruising along the entire coast of the annexed Crimea.

At the same time, the U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine aircraft, tail number 168432 and call sign PS076, …

Adidas-Group CEO Kasper Rørsted said Europe should improve relations with Moscow. "The one who thinks that we are punishing Russia with sanctions is mistaken. In the West, jobs are also gone because of this, but politicians prefer to keep silent about such results," Rørsted said in an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, published on Saturday, January 6.

Rørsted stressed that he is not advocating for the European Union to lift sanctions against Russia. However, Rørsted …

While acknowledging Ukraine’s memberships in the European Union and the NATO remain the country’s strategic priorities, these are “prospects obviously not to be fulfilled in 2018,” the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, wrote in an article for the publications Novoye Vremya and The Economist Mir.

In the op-ed published under the title The Word and Development the President of Ukraine outlined his vision of the “only possible path of development for a successful country.”

“Membership in …

The National Commission for State Regulation for Energy and Public Utilities (NKREKP) will meet on January 9 to decide on the allocation of 2 billion UAH or $70.8 million among the power generating companies of thermal power plants (TPPs), the NKREKP website reports.

A quarter of the amount will be given to Centrenergo PJSC (294 million UAH or $10.42 million USD) and Donbasenergo PJSC (225.79 million UAH or $7.99 million USD).

The lion’s share of the money, 1.48 billion UAH ($52.39 million …