One of the founders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Vladimir Makovich, has died in Donetsk, as was reported on his Facebook page by the former Deputy Foreign Minister of the DPR, Boris Borisov.

Interfax cited the head of the News Front agency, Konstantin Knyrik, in reporting that the cause of death was a heart attack.

In April 2014, Makovich read the declaration on the statehood of the independent republic. In July of the same year he served as a speaker of the Supreme …

The meeting of Russian and US presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump could take place at the G20 summit in Hamburg in July, said Dmitry Peskov, Press Secretary to the Russian president.

“If we don’t arrange an earlier summit, their meeting presumably could take place at the G20 summit in Hamburg in July, because this is the first place where their paths could cross,” Peskov said in a CNN interview.

Responding to a question on what the first meeting of the two leaders could be, the press …

Singer Yulia Samoylova will represent Russian in the singing contest Eurovision 2017, which will be held in the Ukrainian capital in May. This was reported on Sunday, March 12, on Channel One Russia. Samoylova will sing the song “Flame is Burning.” Because she is disabled, the singer is confined to a wheelchair.

Disabled performers have participated before in Eurovision. In 2015, Polish singer Monika Kuszynska, confined to a wheelchair like Samoylova, sang in Vienna. Before that, in 2008, …

The Russian military in the Crimea has deployed a “Murmansk-BN” radio-electronic warfare system which is capable of detecting, monitoring and disrupting communications between NATO ships as far as the Mediterranean Sea, Crimean media reports.

“The Murmansk-BN is a coastal radio-electronic warfare system which performs radio reconnaissance, intercepts enemy signals and jams them on the entire short-wave range for up to 5000 km. The system is mounted on seven trucks. The antenna system is …

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

The main objective of the economic blockade is to deprive separatist leaders and the separatist administration of funding.  Their main source of revenue is the sale of coal to Ukraine. According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), 47% of revenue from coal sales was spent on financing armed groups in the separatist republics. In the last year the volume of coal mined in the separatist-held territories increased by 49%, …

According to the Head of the European Union Delegation to Ukraine, Hugues Mingarelli, local elections in the separatist-held areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions are possible if they include the participation of Ukrainian parties and Ukrainian mass media, which should cover the elections.

In his interview with UNIAN news agency, while answering a question concerning the statements of German Ambassador to Ukraine Ernst Reichel that elections in the Donbas are possible even in the presence …

As reported by Ukrainian TSN news channel, ships from the Crimea are not allowed into Turkish ports. TSN reports that the logistics company confirmed that ferries that arrived from Sevastopol are not allowed to enter the port of Zonguldak. This is not the first time that Crimean vessels were not allowed to moor while boats from Russian regions do not face such problems. The information was later confirmed by the Crimean Maritime Agency.

The director of the Crimean Maritime Agency, Stanislav …

Ukraine can demand new restrictions against the Russian Federation from the International Court of Justice, if Moscow violates the orders of the Court. Olena Zerkal, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for the European Integration, expressed this opinion in an interview with Zerkalo Nedeli (The Mirror Weekly).

In her opinion, the Court will comply with the request of Ukraine to apply temporary measures against the Russian Federation as part of the hearing that took place this …