Author: Dmytro Snegiryov, Head of Prava Sprava public initiative.

At a recent meeting with Igor Plotnitsky, the leader of the self-proclaimed LPR, Alexandra Soroka reported about the direct involvement of a fifteen-year-old girl sniper in the fighting against the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

"A fifteen-year-old girl sniper was killed. When she was still alive, she decided to take her father's name. Her mother left for Ukraine," Soroka said during the meeting.

On September 10, 2016, the …

The charity funds, which are considered part of the "secret empire" of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, have published their financials for the first time. This was reported by the founder of the Anti-Corruption Fund and the leader of the Russian opposition, Alexey Navalny, who earlier published a high-profile investigation on the wealth of the head of the Russian government.

Reporting for the funds Gradislava, Sotsgosproekt, Dar and the Fund for the Support of Winter Olympic Sports …

Russia has announced the beginning of a propagandist initiative. By May 9 it is going to distribute 100,000 Saint George ribbons abroad but even its allies are apprehensive of this plan.

This was reported by Gazeta Wyborcza, adding that in Russia and some post-Soviet countries the ribbon is considered a symbol of the end of the Second World War. That's why it is massively distributed in the streets on the occasion of the celebration of the Victory Day on May 9.

Distribution activities began …

Izvestia reports that Russia has resumed its memorandum on preventing incidents in the sky over Syria, at the request of U.S. authorities. The newspaper referred to three sources in the Russian Foreign Ministry, saying that the memorandum went out on April 13.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Izvestia while he was in Moscow that they had "appealed to the Russian leadership to extend the agreement." Tillerson visited Moscow on April 11-12. Following meetings with the Russian President …

The Estonian Police and Border Guard Board together with the Department of Waterways will begin marking the state border with Russia at the Chudskoe, Teploe and Pskov lakes in May, as reported by ERR.ee.

Border signs in the water will be installed along a 126-kilometer border stretch. It was noted that the work will cost 74 million euros.

The state border will be marked with milestones along the water, which will be installed at an interval of more than one and a half kilometers.

On each of …

Washington's allegations that Russia is supplying arms to the Taliban are unprofessional, and there are no grounds for such assertions. So says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, as reported by RIA Novosti.

“As for the allegations of supplying arms to the Taliban, which come from the military in Washington and from the military that is leading the US group in the region, including Afghanistan under the command of General Nicholson, they are unprofessional statements and have no basis in …

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he is ready to resume military-technical cooperation with Ukraine, reports Lenta.ru.

"We are ready to resume this relationship at the first opportunity. Our cooperation in these areas depends on our partners, not us. It will be taken seriously when the relevant conditions are created for this,” he said at a meeting of the Military Industrial Commission.

It should be noted that during the meeting, Putin also said that Ukraine helped Russia to create a new …

The United States is developing weapons which can be used for instantaneous preemptive global strikes, said Lt. General Viktor Poznihir, the First Deputy Chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the Russian General Staff, as quoted by Russia’s Interfax news agency.

"In implementing the concept of the joint use of offensive and defensive weapons, the Pentagon began to create forward-looking complexes for instantaneous global strikes," said Poznihir at the conference in Moscow on Wednesday. …