The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) initiated criminal proceedings according to article 110 of the Criminal Code (infringement of territorial integrity) against detained Russian border guards Askar Kulub and Vladimir Kuznetsov. The SBU is preparing to file charges against them, as reported on the SBU’s website.

The investigation believes that in the period between December 2016 and the 30th of June 2017, Kulub (deputy commander of the reserve unit no. 9930) and Kuznetsov (head of canine …

According to Commander of the separatist Legion battalion and “Member of Parliament” of DPR Sergey Zavdoveev, the self-proclaimed DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) and the LPR (Luhansk People’s Republic) will be incorporated into Russia in the near future, separatist media reports.

In his opinion, only Russia is preventing Kyiv from realizing the "Croatian scenario" in the Donbas.

"I think that no one is taking on Russia. The LPR and DPR – this is Russia. We are now legally being integrated …

Anti-corruption advocates from Transparency International - Russia have prepared a report on Russian corporate lobbying abroad.

"The report describes the principles of the work of public registries of lobbyists from 13 European countries and the European Union, available on the websites of government authorities or self-regulating organizations of lobbyists," the report states.

Employees of Transparency International reviewed the lobbying initiatives of Russia’s Gazprom in Austria, France, …

For the first time, Ukraine has begun preparing anti-aircraft missile units to repel a series of massive enemy air strikes, stated Dmitry Karpenko, head of air defense missile forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as reported by the press service of the Defense Ministry.

“The important thing in the current process of combat training is that we have begun to prepare anti-aircraft missile units to repel a series of massive air strikes, which has not been done since 1992,” Karpenko said.

He …

The Ukrainian government decided to extend the measures to toughen the border controls in the Transnistrian part of the Ukrainian border, reported by Serhiy Yarovyy, the First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs during a meeting with the delegation of the Kyiv Association of Military Attaches and the military attaches of more than 30 foreign states.

According to him, the Kharkiv part of the border is being completed within the framework of the European Rampart program. Work has begun in the …

Former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych refuses to participate in the trial for high treason, withdrawing his defenders from. He made that statement on the air during the Time program on the Russian First Channel on Wednesday.

“I do not want to take part in an allegedly adversarial process, whose outcome is predetermined. I decided to withdraw my defenders from the process. There are no doubts about their qualifications but lawyers are powerless in a country where justice has been …

As reported by diplomats on Wednesday, Russia, Turkey and Iran could not come to an agreement on zones of de-escalation of violence in Syria during the talks in Kazakhstan.

Russia and Iran, who support the Syrian President Bashar Assad, agreed to cooperate with Turkey, which provides assistance to the insurgents, in order to create four zones of "de-escalation" in the war-ravaged country.

The country-participants of the negotiations hoped to come to an agreement by the end of August, before …

A Russian citizen, Yury Martyshev, who was extradited by the Latvian authorities to the US, is now in an American prison in Alexandria, Virginia, as reported on Wednesday by the Russian Embassy in the US, according to TASS.

Preliminary information indicates that the Russian is suspected of cyber fraud, for the theft of personal information of credit card holders.

The diplomatic mission noted that "they consider this arrest as another case of the kidnapping of a Russian citizen by US …