The First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Iryna Herashchenko, claims that the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Pedro Agramunt, is avoiding meetings with Ukrainian politicians after his visits to Syria and Russia, as she posted on Facebook while participating in the European People's Party summit, which began on Wednesday in Malta.

PACE members from Ukraine are openly in conflict with the President of the Assembly, Pedro Agramunt, accusing him of lobbying …

A resolution was introduced in the U.S. Senate in connection with the third anniversary of the annexation of the Crimea, calling for the maintenance of sanctions against the Russian Federation and the provision of lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine.

According to the Ukrainian Embassy in the United States, the draft resolution "Condemning illegal Russian aggression in Ukraine on the three year anniversary of the annexation of Crimea" was introduced by Senators Robert Portman and Sherrod Brown, …

Nikki Haley, Permanent US Representative to the UN, while speaking on the protection of human rights at the UN Security Council on March 29, said that Russia and Iran are involved in the Assad regime’s annihilation of the population and civilian infrastructure in Aleppo. The US representative referred to this as “war crimes”.

“Together with Russia and Iran, the Assad regime has destroyed every hospital in eastern Aleppo. Every single one. A quarter of a million people have been left to suffer. …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the Defense Ministry and Federal Security Service (FSB) to protect Russia’s national interests in the Arctic, reports RIA Novosti.

“The Defense Ministry, Federal Security Service and its border security should implement their plans to ensure national interests in terms of defense capability, but also to protect our interests in the Arctic, ensuring the normal operation of the northern sea route,” he said during a trip to the archipelago Franz …

On the night of March 29, unknown persons fired at the building of the Consulate General of Poland in Lutsk-a city of regional significance on the western territory of Ukraine. There are no casualties or victims. The investigation alleges that the attackers fired using an RPG-26 grenade launcher. The national police of the Volyn Oblast have opened criminal proceedings due to the shelling, and have qualified the event as a terrorist act. At the site of the event, the Security Service of Ukraine ( …

On March 29, the London High Court of Justice decided to prioritize the consideration of Russia’s case against Ukraine regarding the Eurobonds for $3 billion, without conducting full-scale legal proceedings as requested by Russia.

The essence of the case is as follows. Ukraine received a loan of $3 billion from Russia in December 2013 during Yanukovych’s presidency. Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Yanukovych $15 billion, but due to Ukrainian revolution, he gave only $3 billion. In …

After the large-scale arrests of anti-corruption protesters in Moscow involving police violence, German politicians have renewed discussions about a possible boycott of the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia, Deutsche Welle reports.

Since December 2008, when the International Federation of Association Football decided to hold the world championship in Russia, the situation which civil society in Russia finds itself in has deteriorated sharply, said Gernot Erler, commissioner of the German …

Losses in exports from Ukraine due to the war in the Donbas and the annexation of the Crimea by Russia amounted to almost $13 billion over a two-year period, according to a press release by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine.

According to the department, the percentage of Ukraine’s total exports from the Crimea and certain regions of Donetsk and Luhansk fell from 26.6% in 2013 to 10.4% in 2015. During this two-year period, exports fell by 70% from the Donetsk region and …