The Latvian National Armed Forces (NAF) received 65 out of 123 caterpillar combat reconnaissance armored cars from the UK. This was accomplished as part of a military equipment purchase agreement made between the two countries in 2014, as reported by Baltnews citing the press service of Latvian Ministry of Defense.

The project to mechanize the land forces of the Latvian Army is divided into several phases and stages. The acquisition of 123 armored vehicles is stipulated as part of this project. …

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi flew to Russia for President Vladimir Putin’s 65th birthday and presented the President with an embroidered handmade duvet cover, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reports.

The gift has a picture of Putin and Berlusconi, shaking hands. The photo of the duvet cover was also published by La Stampa and La Republica.

According to Italian media, Berlusconi congratulated Putin while they were in Sochi though the Kremlin made no official report of …

The Ukrainian military took full control of the runway and the outskirts of the Donetsk airport along the demarcation line in eastern Ukraine. They also installed the Ukrainian flag a few meters from the destroyed terminal, TSN news program reports.

"The Ukrainian language on this side is heard everywhere, in commands, orders and conversations. And this annoys the separatists, who are positioned some hundreds of meters away, a lot, “ the report says.

The Ukrainian military know when to open …

The Russian Foreign Ministry plans to take countermeasures against the American media in Russia in the event of continued pressure on the Russian television channel RT in the United States, the official spokeswoman for the ministry, Maria Zakharova, said.

According to her, the same measures will be applied to American media and American journalists that are being applied to RT (Russia Today) in the U.S., and Russia will deal with both state and private publications in the same way.

Zakharova …

The spring 2020 session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA) will be held in Kyiv.

This was reported by Verkhovna Rada member Irina Friz, who heads the Ukrainian delegation to the NATO PA.

“This is important and very good news! The Permanent Committee of the NATO PA approved the application of Ukraine for the spring session of the NATO PA in Kyiv. We have been granted this right in 2020,” she wrote on Facebook on Sunday evening.

In her opinion, this is “not only a manifestation of Ukraine’ …

The adopted changes will mean that, as of October 1, the minimum pension amount will increase from 1312 ($49.52) to 1452 ($54.80) hryvnia.

The pension reform envisages an incremental lengthening of the necessary contribution period before retirement to 25 years in 2018 and to 35 years in 2028.

From 2019, there are plans to introduce a contributory scheme. Persons who, according to current legislation, will be subject to the statutory state pension contribution on January 1, 2019, will be …

According to Ukrainian Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies (CACDS), the volume of Ukrainian arms exports to the global market can grow from the current 770 million dollars to 2-3 billion dollars, writes Valentin Badrak, director of the CACDS in his article for ZN.UA.

According to the author, although state concern Ukroboronprom believes that Ukraine does not have the end products for such deliveries, the flexible private sector can produce them very quickly, expanding both …

Authorities of the so-called LPR (Luhansk People’s Republic) have introduced criminal liability for non-payment of unified social contribution to compulsory state insurance, also known as the Unified Social Tax or UST, reported the terrorist-controlled online-resource LIC.

The corresponding decision was made by "the deputies of the People's Council of the LPR", adopting the so-called law “On Introducing Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the LPR."

The so-called legislative act amends " …