The Federation Council of Russia approved a bill banning the use of proxy servers, including a virtual corporate network. The document, approved on July 25, also prohibits sending text messages from a phone anonymously.

On July 21, this bill was approved by the lower chamber of the Russian parliament, the State Duma. The next step is to send it to Russian President Vladimir Putin to be signed.

If signed, the document will come into force on January 1, 2018, less than three months before the …

Ukrainian Minister of Justice Pavlo Petrenko has announced that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is hearing 3,000 lawsuits from Ukrainians regarding the violation of their rights as a result of Russian aggression in the Donbas and the annexation of the Crimea.

According to Petrenko, the ECHR has already delivered its first decision on the lawsuit by a resident of Ukraine regarding these events.

The European Court recognized that Ukraine is not responsible for the violation of human …

Moldovan Speaker of the Parliament Andrian Candu has criticized the intentions of President Igor Dodon to present official awards to Russian peacekeepers, urging him not to confuse official awards with protocol gifts.The Speaker wrote about this on his Facebook page.

"On one of the Russian TV channels, President Dodon, in order to show his support for Moscow, boasts that he violates and will violate the Constitution. Angry at the tough position of the Parliament, which is expressed in a …

During a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iraqi Vice President Nouri al-Maliki, the delivery of T-90 tanks to Iraq was discussed, as reported by RIA Novosti on Tuesday, July 25th, citing the Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, Dmitry Shugayev.

In addition, Shugayev said that during al-Maliki’s visit, the parties also discussed the current implementation of military and technical cooperative agreement, and outlined approaches to resolving …

The Federation Council of Russia appealed to President Vladimir Putin with a request to instruct the relevant Russian departments to develop sanctions “in response to Poland’s decision to demolish monuments to Soviet soldiers.”This was reported by Interfax, citing the appeal of the Russian senators.

“We ask you to instruct the relevant federal executive bodies to submit comprehensive proposals on the possible introduction of restrictive measures in the areas of bilateral cooperation with the …

Oleksandr Turchynov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine, visited the armed forces’ Honcharovskyi training ground, where new weaponry and military equipment designs were being tested.

As reported by the NSDC’s press service, Turchynov was shown machine guns, sniper rifles, hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers, mortars, anti-tank missile systems and their ammunition.

He drew special attention to the thermobaric ammunition (which disperse combustible …

The United States has not provided defensive weapons to Ukraine yet, however they have not ruled out the possibility. The head of the US State Department's press service, Heather Nauert said this on Tuesday in response to a request to comment on the statements made by US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker in an interview with the BBC, who confirmed that Washington is considering giving American weapons to Ukraine.

"We are not doing that yet," she answered on the …

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) suppressed attempts to organize the fake protest action of supposed ethnic Bulgarians in the Zaporizhia and Odessa provinces, the SBU’s website reported.

As it transpired, the organizer of the anti-Ukrainian events was Sergey Khizhnyak, one of the former leaders of the “Young Regions” public organization.

“He is one of the former leaders of the ‘Young Regions’ public organization and is hiding in Russian territory. The 30 citizens hired to participate in …