• Nord Stream 2 shareholders have invested about $3 billion in the project

    Paul Corcoran, CFO of the project company Nord Stream 2 AG, has stated that as of the end of 2017, shareholders in Nord Stream 2, including the Russian company Gazprom, have provided approximately $3 billion toward construction of the gas pipeline project along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. This was reported by Interfax.

    Gazprom's partner companies in the construction of Nord Stream 2 include Royal Dutch Shell, Engie, OMV, Uniper and Wintershall. They are committed to financing 50% of the …

  • Kaczynski says his party needs three terms in order to change Poland

    The ruling party of Poland, the Law and Justice Party, needs three terms in power in order to change the country,as stated by the party’s chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski in an interview with Gazeta Polska, reports news agency Niezalezna.

    There are places which, in our opinion, need so much modernization and even fundamental changes to make Poland modern, free from the burdens of the past, and friendly to citizens, that we need not two, but at least three terms. Therefore, we are ready for a long …

  • Leaders of five German states demand weakening of sanctions against Russia

    The government leaders of five German states believe that sanctions against Russia are ineffective and are causing damage to German companies, Deutsche Welle reports.

    A meeting was held in Berlin between the heads of government of the five states formed from the territory of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany).

    Reiner Haseloff, Minister President of the state of Saxony-Anhalt and a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian-Democratic Union Party, said after the meeting …

  • Relatives of MH17 airline crash victims won a lawsuit against former separatist commander Girkin

    A group of the MH17 victims’ relatives won their case in US courts, which entitles them to receive compensation in the hundreds of millions of US dollars. The Dutch TV program Zembla received the relevant documents from the court.

    The lawsuit was instituted by family members of 25 victims of the MH17 catastrophe, ten of whom are Dutch citizens. A case was opened against Igor Girkin (Strelkov), who was previously the “Minister of Defense of the Donetsk People's Republic."

    The US judge issued …

  • Russian Minister of Defense: Russia controls the situation in Syria with the help of drones

    The Russian Armed Forces are controlling the situation in Syria by using drones, as stated by Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu during a press conference at the National Defense Management Center of Russia. The transcript was published on the Ministry's website.

    "Thanks to unmanned aircraft, we have complete control over the whole Syrian territory," Shoygu said.

    According to him, since the beginning of 2018 militants began to "widely use" unmanned aerial vehicles against Russian facilities in …

  • Ukrainian media reveals how many Javelin anti-tank systems will be in the first delivery from the US

    A U.S. preliminary commission to assess Ukraine’s capacities regarding the storage and use of Javelin anti-tank missile systems has already visited the country, Liga.net reports.

    "The delivery date depends on the United States. The situation in Ukraine is currently being studied. A commission from the United States has already come to study the area," said one military source.

    The United States will provisionally supply Ukraine with 35 launchers and 210 anti-tank missiles for $47 million. …

  • Ukrainian Foreign Minister calls the meeting between US representative Volker and Putin's aide Surkov fruitless

    At a joint briefing with the Italian Foreign Minister, OSCE Chairman Angelino Alfano in Kyiv, Pavlo Klimkin, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, said that the last meeting of Kurt Volker, US State Department Special Representative, and Russian Presidential Assistant Vladislav Surkov was fruitless, Ukrinform reports.

    "I am in constant contact with our American friends and allies. Several times I spoke with Kurt Volker before meeting with Surkov and yesterday too. Unfortunately, during …

  • Ukraine conducts first successful cruise missile launch test

    On January 30, Ukraine conducted the first successful flight tests of the new Ukrainian ground-based cruise missile, which is capable of destroying ground and water targets with precision.

    This was reported by National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov in a statement published on NSDC website after the completion of the tests.

    According to Turchynov, the missile is entirely the work of Ukrainian engineers from the state enterprise KB Luch, in collaboration with …

  • Ukraine cuts off water to LPR due to debt

    Luhansk has no cold water supply, LIGA.net reported with reference to sources in the city.

    Yevheniy Nasedkin, press secretary of the Luhansk Energy Association (LEA), which is part of Konstantin Grigorishin’s Energy Standard holdings, confirmed that the water supply had been switched off in the former provincial center.

    “It was switched off today. The reason is the Popasna Waterworks’ debt,” he said. According to him, it has been in debt to the LEA since July 2015, and today the debt amounts …

  • Russia calls Kremlin List an effective breach in Russia-US relations

    First deputy chairman of the Federation Council’s International Affairs Committee Vladimir Dzhabarov believes that the inclusion of virtually all the Russian leaders in the US Finance Ministry’s “Kremlin Report” constitutes a breach in Russia-US relations, RIA Novosti reports.

    “Formally our countries have relations, but the inclusion in the sanction list of virtually all our country’s leadership means that these relations are effectively being severed,” Dzhabarov commented. He himself was …