Colonel of the Russian Army Vladimir Bekish was killed in Syria on June 19th. This was told to TV Rain (Dozhd) by the relatives of the deceased. Colonel Bekish was buried with military honors in his home town in Belarus. The Russian Defense Ministry has not yet officially reported the death of this officer.

Vladimir Bekish was a regular Russian serviceman. The death certificate received by the relatives stated that he had been killed in the Syrian Arab Republic.

Journalists of the tut.by …

The Vice-President of the United States, Joe Biden, guaranteed NATO’s assistance to the Presidents of the Baltic States. Biden urged them to not take the statements of the Republican Party nominee for President of the United States, Donald Trump, seriously.

The Vice-President of the United States promised the Baltic States solid support as NATO partners. On the 23rd of August, Joe Biden stated at a meeting with the Presidents of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, that Washington considers itself …

The Ukrainian Ambassador to the OSCE, Ihor Prokopchuk, stated in an interview with journalists in Kiev that the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) will not send observers to Russian parliamentary elections that will take place in the Crimea, as reported by a correspondent of Ukrayinska Pravda. According to ODIHR, those elections, which are held in the territory of the Russian Federation, don’t concern the Crimea.

“Countries can invite the OSCE Office for …

According to an article published by TASS, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Russia prevented the USA’s attack on Syria in 2013 by convincing the President of the Syrian Arab Republic Bashar al-Assad to abandon the use of chemical weapons.

“Of course, the consequences could have been more devastating if Russia had not prevented the USA’s attack on Syria three years ago by convincing al-Assad to rid Syria of its chemical weapons stockpiles,” he said.

On August 15th, the …

The new Ambassador of the United States to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, has arrived in Kyiv, as reported by the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

It is reported that Yovanovitch presented her credentials to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief of Staff of the Ministry, Vadym Prystaiko.

"During the meeting the high level of relations between the countries and the importance of their further development in all sectors in particular, security and economy, were noted. …

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has demanded that Russian-backed separatists stop trying to intimidate OSCE observers in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainskaya Pravda reported.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine strongly condemns the provocations that are regularly carried out by Russian-controlled fighters against the observers of the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) of the OSCE in Ukraine with the aim of preventing effective operations of the mission," a statement posted on the ministry’s …

The local authorities of the Russian-occupied Crimea intend to pay wage arrears to employees of the recently liquidated Radio Communication Design Bureau. Until 2014 the company was a part of the Ukraine state-owned enterprise, Ukroboronprom (Ukrainian Defense Industry).

The Governor of Sevastopol, Dmitry Ovsyannikov, said that the salaries could be repaid out of the income from the sale of the company’s property, Krym.Realii reports.

“Please note the number of workers who should get the …

According to a poll conducted by Levada-Center, more than half of respondents believe that there will be voting violations at the upcoming State Duma elections. Half of those respondents believe that those violations will affect the results of the elections.

Almost a quarter of Russians (23%) are ready to sell their votes at the State Duma elections. Of those, 11% said they would sell their votes for RUB 5,000 and another 5% for a greater sum of money. This is evidenced by the results of the …