China conducted testing of a new rocket in the Bohai Sea, as reported by the Xinhua Chinese News Agency, citing the Ministry of Defense of the PRC.

"The expected result was achieved," says the statement of the Ministry. However, the Ministry of Defense did not specify when exactly the test was conducted.

They also noted that the test was conducted as part of an annual planned exercise. It was conducted with the purpose of developing the skills of the armed forces in order to "cope with …

TASS reported that on May 9, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Kvirikashvili, who is in the US capital for an official visit, signed a General Security of Information Agreement (GSOIA) on Tuesday to exchange intelligence and combat terrorism together. This was said in a statement issued by the State Department.

"The agreement represents a major milestone in security cooperation between the United States and Georgia. The GSOIA establishes a legal …

The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, said that the European Union will ease the visa regime with Ukraine in the coming days.

"In a few days, we will announce an agreement on simplifying the visa regime with our Ukrainian friends," the head of EU diplomacy said at a meeting of the Security Council.

According to her, the EU “supports Eastern partners, strengthens their economies and state bodies, their resilience."

In addition, …

Ukroboronprom presented a portable rocket launcher produced domestically at the international exhibition in Turkey, IDEF-2017, as reported on the agency's website.

The new weapon is designed to defeat lightly armored and unarmored equipment. The range of the portable rocket launcher is from 70 m to almost 2 km, and the range of a direct shot can reach 600 m.

It is reported that the use of a new optoelectronic aiming system significantly simplifies the work of the shooter and also provides …

The Russian Ministry of Defense refuted the claim that ISIS terrorists had captured and executed a Russian soldier in Syria, Interfax reports.

“All military personnel of the Russian Armed Forces group in Syria are alive, healthy, and are carrying out tasks in the fight against international terrorism within their subdivisions,” the Russian Defense Ministry stated.

The Russian Defense ministry condemned “the actions of the independent media, which regularly circulates the information output of …

Officers from the Russian Special Forces were given awards for their participation in operations in Syria. The commander of the group was given “The hero of Russia” award, Russia-24 news channel reported.

The channel showed four people standing with their backs to the camera. One of them, the commander, told the reporters that the group of 16 Russian Special Forces commandos had entered a battle with “300 terrorist fighters”.

"Without any losses, we had the upper hand thanks to our position …

Six U.S. senators advised U.S. President Donald Trump to first meet with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, and only then with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, reports Voice of America.

The letter, signed by John McCain, James Inhofe, Rob Portman, Bob Menendez, Jean Shaheen and Bob Casey, was sent amid reports that Trump and Putin are planning to hold their first in-person meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Germany in July.

"Meeting with democratically elected representatives from …

A court in the Netherlands has ruled that Russia deliberately brought the oil company “Yukos” to bankruptcy by insisting that it pay large amounts of taxes.

In 2004-2005, The Moscow Arbitration Court collected a total of more than 300 billion rubles of tax arrears for 2000-2004 from Yukos; in the summer of 2006, the oil company was declared bankrupt.

As the Court of Appeals of Amsterdam decided, Dutch legislation does not allow for the recognition of the bankruptcy of the company Yukos in 2006 …