Separate subdivisions of the armed forces of the self-proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia were integrated into the army of the Russian Federation. The bill was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the press service of the Kremlin reported.

The bill provides for the procedure for “the entry of separate units of the armed forces of the Republic of South Ossetia into the armed forces of the Russian Federation.”

The bill concerning the Ossetian army joining the Russian Armed Forces was …

The German government expressed concern about reports of the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria, not far from the capital of Damascus and the northern province of Idlib. “If it turns out that the Syrian army once again resorted to the use of chemical weapons, this horrible act would be a flagrant violation of the moral and legal obligations not to use them,” said the German Foreign Ministry in a press release on February 5.

Earlier it became known that the Syrian military might have …

Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Board at Latvian bank Norvik Banka, according to the website of the international intelligence community InformNapalm.

Grigory Guselnikov, a Russian banker, is the owner of Norvik Banka; he also controls Vyatka Bank.

In July, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) denied Grigory Guselnikov and Sait-Salam Gutseriev from purchasing the Ukrainian branch of Sberbank.

"This bank [Vyatka Bank] recently tried …

The authorities of eleven villages in Moldova adopted a symbolic "declaration of union with Romania," Newsmaker reports. They became participants in the campaign for the unification of Moldova and Romania, organized by the Unionist platform Acţiunea 2012.

The activists expect that by the 100th anniversary of the reunification of Romania, which is likely to be in 2018, this declaration will be adopted in a hundred Moldovan settlements. For now, 11 Moldovan villages have documented their desire …

Poland needs the Ukrainian migrant workforce in order to ensure sustainable economic growth, the Chairperson of the Narodowy Bank Polski (the National Bank of Poland), Adam Glapinski, said in an interview with Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, a Polish newspaper.

Mr. Glapinski stressed that the ability to attract manpower from neighboring Ukraine and Belarus was one of the key vital tests for Poland’s economy.

Poland felt an acute shortage of qualified personnel particularly in the past years as the …

Boris Titov, Presidential Commissioner for Entrepreneurs’ Rights and leader of Party of Growth, said that some businessmen who are hiding in the UK from Russian justice want to return to their homeland. According to Titov, the list of their names was forwarded to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, TASS reported.

Titov had previously stated that he intended to petition for exclusion from Interpol’s lists those Russian entrepreneurs whose guilt seemed unproven.

It’s not …

The European Commission is going to accelerate the negotiation with Serbia and Montenegro to join the European Union, Die Welt reports with reference to the latest strategic document of the European Commission. "By 2025, they should be ready to become members of the EU," the document says.

Johannes Hahn, European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy will introduce a new EU strategy for the Balkan countries in Brussels on Tuesday, February 6. He said that Serbia and Montenegro …

Russian senator Igor Morozov has claimed that the surface-to-air missile system (SAM) that shot down a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft in Syria may have reached the rebels through contraband channels from the military arsenal in the Ukrainian city of Kalynivka, located in the Vinnytsia Oblast, RIA Novosti reported.

Morozov suggested that the Ukrainian SAM came to Syria after a large-scale fire at the ammunition depots in Kalynivka.

In the fall, the military warehouse in Kalynivka, Ukraine …