According to Deputy Chairman of the Temporary Commission of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs, Andrei Klimov, monitoring missions from countries that do not permit Russian observers in their elections may be banned from attending the 2018 Russian presidential election, reports the Izvestia newspaper.

According to the publication's source, the Russian senators plan to develop appropriate amendments to the current legislation before the start of the election campaign.

The …

By decree, President Vladimir Putin has dismissed several heads of the structural divisions of the Russian Investigative Committee (IC), Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN). The relevant document was published on the official legal information web portal.

Among those dismissed were Alexei Mayakov, head of the IC department for the Leningrad region, Vladimir Romanyuk, deputy head of the MIA head office for the Sverdlovsk region, as well as Anatoly …

The growth of the Russian economy for the last three fiscal quarters at the federal level, which Rosstat (Russian Federal State Statistics Service) has been reporting about, is still not visible in most regions, Rosbalt.ru news website writes citing experts from Russia’s National Research University Higher School of Economics.

As reported in "Comments on the State and Business," nearly 60% of the territories of the Russian Federation are in a recession. This is the second month in a row that …

50.5% of the Ukrainian population use the Ukrainian language as the main language of everyday communication, according to a large poll conducted by the leading sociological centers of the country, KIIS, Rating, SOTSIS, and the Razumkov Center.

The results of the poll are explained in an article for DT.UA by People's Deputy, Ihor Hryniv, and Polish politician, Miroslav Cech.

According to the study results, the majority of Ukrainians speaking mainly in Ukrainian live in the west (97.2%) and in …

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said in an interview with Profil that Ukraine could benefit NATO.

"The Western alliance must prepare for new challenges, and with Ukraine it will be easier than without us ... We have shown that we fight for our country. We are no longer an easy target. This applies not only to supplies or our experience with the Russians' hybrid war. Our NATO partners can learn a lot from us: tactics, endurance, and combat readiness. Without these qualities, modern …

The Russian Foreign Ministry believes that Croatia's plans to share its experience of peaceful reintegration of occupied territories with Ukraine will not contribute to the settlement of the conflict in the Donbas. The Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department of Information and Press stated this in comments connected with statements on the revitalization of the Croatian working group on cooperation with Ukraine.

"We have paid attention to the statements made at the level of the heads of …

In both the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea there has been an increase in the activity of Russian military aircraft noted in recent days, as reported by Yle news agency, citing the Finnish Air Force.

“In recent days, in the region of both the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea, there has been an increase in the Russian military aircraft activity. The Hornet Finnish fighters went aloft to intercept Russian aircraft yesterday and today. At the same time, it was noted that there were no …

The Main Military Prosecutor's office of Ukraine opened a criminal case in connection with the export and sale abroad of coal mined in the separatist-held territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the press secretary of the Prosecutor General Office, Larisa Sargan wrote on her Facebook page on Saturday.

"A number of websites posted materials from which it becomes clear that under the general guidance of [businessman Sergei] Kurchenko, in 2017, government officials and other employees of …