The common historical declaration between Ukraine and Poland "is not even visible on the horizon,” Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Bartosz Cichocki said, the Polish edition of Wpolityce reported.

"In a dialogue with Ukraine, we got stuck on the issue of an administrative ban on conducting search and exhumation. This prohibition shows how different our views are on historical truth," he says.According to Cichocki, the question of a common historical declaration is not being …

Russia's state media regulator Roskomnadzor threatened to stop broadcasting France 24 TV chanel the day after the French Superior Council of Audiovisual (CSA) issued a warning to the Russian channel RT France for inaccurate reporting on Syria.

Roskomnadzor stated that the French channel violated Russian legislation, Russian media reported.

Roskomnadzor employees allegedly found that the editorial activity of France 24 is directed by a foreign legal entity. This violates Russian law on the …

Russia does not set artificial time limits on its military presence in Syria but it gradually reduces the length of presence there, depending on how the situation develops "on the ground,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with British Channel 4.

When asked if Russia troops could be expected to withdraw from Syria by the end of the year, Lavrov gave a negative reply.

"No. And I do not think that this is a topic on which we can conduct a sensible dialogue. We do not …

In June, the approval rating of the activities of the Russian President Vladimir Putin fell by15% compared to the data for April 2018. This is evidenced by the results of the poll conducted by the Russian Levada Center on June 22 to 26 this year.

According to sociologists, the peak of Putin’s popularity was in March 2018 when he had an 80% approval rating. Since then, there has been a decline in approval ratings in general, including those for leadership activities since March, general …

According to a study by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), which involved 24,000 respondents from Russia, including both specialists and recruiters , Russia remains unable to compete for talent in the world market, and the majority of professionals in the scientific and high-tech sectors feel they would be better off working abroad.

The desire to work abroad was expressed by 50% of Russian scientists, 52% of senior managers, and 54% of IT specialists. 49% of engineering specialists and 46% of …

The head of the DPR, Aleksandr Zakharchenko, is ready to enter into negotiations with Ukraine, but only after the elections. He made this statement during a “Direct Line” with residents of the territories of the Donetsk region that are not controlled by the Ukrainian authorities, reported dnr-online news outlet.

“Despite the rhetoric of our opponents and allies that negotiations with Kyiv are impossible, even if tomorrow Poroshenko, Turchinov and others are gone, even if Ukraine as a state …

Lafarge, a large French construction materials company, has been charged with cooperating with terrorists in Syria and complicity in crimes against humanity, reported France 24.

The investigation took two years. It revolved around the Syrian branch of the company, to which the head office, from 2011-2015, allocated 13 million euros to maintain the plant in northern Syria. Part of this money, according to the investigation, was given to extremist groups, including terrorists from the Islamic …

Russia is keeping close tabs on the development of a military space force by the United States to ensure that Washington "has not crossed a red line," said Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos (Russian state-run Corporation for Space Activities), during the corporation’s Moscow conference while commenting on US President Donald Trump’s order to the US Department of Defense to study the creation of a space force.

"The decision announced by the president [US Donald] Trump concerns the creation, in …