Detectives of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine received additional evidence of illegal payments from the "black cash" fund of the Party of Regions for an American political consultant, Paul Manafort, as reported by Dzerkalo Tyzhnia.

"According to the weekly, recently NABU received additional evidence of payments for Manafort from the accounts affiliated with the former President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych. The evidence was indicative of financial transactions in the European banks …

Latvian authorities are planning to start the construction of a fence at the border with Belarus, modeled after the barrier erected at the border with Russia. This was reported by Delfi with reference to the head of the State Border Guard of Latvia, Normunds Garbars.

Garbars noted that the expenses are already built into the budget for the following year. "The project will be realized on the same principles", the news agency writes. According to it, the construction of the fence will begin no …

The deputy of the Simferopol city council of the Crimea from the Communist Party, Stepan Kiskin, wrote a letter to the newly elected US president, Donald Trump. Kiskin stated this on his Facebook page.

Kiskin called on Trump to recognize the Crimea as part of Russia and offered to hold a second Yalta conference on the peninsula.

The letter to Trump, noted Kiskin, was sent to the US ambassador to Russia, John Tefft, with a request that the diplomat give the letter to the president-elect.

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Canadian Foreign Minister Stéphane Dion urged all countries that imposed sanctions against Russia because of its actions against Ukraine to be firm in this matter, and stated that Canada would not ease the sanctions as long as Moscow keeps its current position.

He stated this at a press conference in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, according to Reuters.

“Russia’s behavior in Ukraine and Syria is problematic, to say the least. That is why it is important to be very frank in our relations with …

Russia will never discuss the issue of the Crimea’s territorial jurisdiction and is ready to wait until Europe and the USA realize it, as stated by Russian President Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, during an interview with the Associated Press.

"No one in Russia will ever be ready to start any discussion on the Crimea", he said. As noted by the agency, during the interview, Peskov objected to Russia’s actions in the Crimea being called "annexation" and stated that this is a region of …

NATO fears that Donald Trump, as president of the United States, will reduce the presence of US troops in Europe, Spiegel reports.

According to the newspaper, this is one of the scenarios described in the report from the headquarters of the secretary general of the alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, who has “enormous” concerns about the election of the American billionaire.

“Nowhere is concern over the election of Trump as US President greater than in NATO. Now the alliance, as became known to …

According to the commander of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, captain Sergey Artamonov, the naval strike group of the Russian Navy is maneuvering in the eastern part of the Mediterranean.

“The ships of the strike group have moved into the designated area in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, near the western shores of Syria,” said Artamonov in his interview with “Saturday News” on the Russia 1 TV channel.

The captain of the other ship of the flotilla, the Pyotr Velikiy battle …

The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic has declared that members of Misanthropic Division group, whose representatives have claimed responsibility for the murder of Arsen “Motorola” Pavlov, have been detained, Korrespondent.net reported.

“On the 11th of November, six active members of the Ukrainian nationalist organization Misanthropic Division, whose leaders have claimed responsibility for the murder of legendary Commander of Sparta Battalion, Arsen Pavlov, commonly known as Motorola, …