The Ukrainian State Migration Service has started verification of all persons who received Ukrainian citizenship during Ukraine's independence, said First Deputy Head of the State Migration Service Maxim Sokolyuk, UNIAN reports.

According to Sokolyuk, there are cases when the courts have made decisions on Ukrainian citizenship based on fake certificates of residency in Ukraine that were issued by migration service officials prior to 1991.

"Work has begun on the full verification of the …

The Polish company, Doncoaltrade, which was engaged in exporting of coal from the separatist-controlled territories of the Donbas, was included in the US sanctions list, as stated in a message on the website of the US Department of the Treasury.

On Friday night, the US Treasury announced the expansion of sanctions against Russia due to the situation in Ukraine, adding to it 21 individuals and 12 organizations.

Polish publication Gazeta Prawna reported on November 5 that anthracite from …

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine intends to form a patrol police force in the Crimea and Sevastopol that will work “in other areas” until the peninsula is freed from "Russian occupation", stated the Minister of Interior, Arsen Avakov, at the annual college meeting of the Interior Ministry in Kyiv, the UNN news reports.

After the de-occupation of the Crimea, “the police divisions that will have been formed will be transferred to the Crimea,” the Minister explained.

At the same time, …

Assistant to the Russian President Vladislav Surkov stated in the follow-up of the meeting with US State Department’s Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker that the new US proposals on the settlement of the situation in the southeast of Ukraine seemed fully attainable to him, TASS reports.

The subject of the talks that took place in Dubai on January 26 was the deployment of the UN mission in the southeast of Ukraine.

"The Americans brought much more constructive proposals this time. …

New US sanctions imposed earlier against Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia Andrey Cherezov and Head of department of this Ministry Evgeniy Grabchak are illegal, said Russian Minister of Energy Alexander Novak, adding that the Ministry would wait for clarifications from the US, TASS reports.

According to Novak, no arguments about the introduction of sanctions were provided. “People are working, performing their functions, government functions, they continue working and such prohibitions only …

The Press Secretary of the President of Turkey, Ibrahim Kalin, held a telephone conversation with US National Security Adviser, Herbert McMaster, during which the latter confirmed that Washington stopped supplying arms to the Kurds in Syria, as reported by Anadolu news agency.

The agency was told by the administration of the Turkish president, that on the evening of January 27th, McMaster confirmed that the United States stopped supplying weapons to the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and …

Despite the new sanctions against Russian energy companies, which the US Treasury announced on Friday, the first batch of Russian-made liquefied natural has been delivered to the United States this weekend.

As confirmed by Luke Pinneo, the representative of the US Coast Guard, the Gazelys tanker belonging to the French company Engie entered the territorial waters of the United States on Wednesday and is currently anchored in the Gulf of Massachusetts, the Voice of America reports.

"They plan …

The illegal outflow of capital from Russia continues to accelerate, said Central Bank Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Skobelkin at a session of the State Duma Financial Market Committee.

One of the most popular ways to do this is to give a loan which will never be repaid to an offshore company. The Russian legal entity which has transferred the money then declares itself bankrupt, and the offshore recipient can transfer the funds to a third company, allowing it to disappear virtually without a trace. …