On Sunday, December 31, passengers and staff of five airports in Russia were evacuated over false bomb threats in the buildings.

Policemen had to evacuate passengers and employees at Kemerovo airport in the morning in order to check on a bomb threat report. No explosive device was found, and the airport resumed normal operations. However, one flight from Kemerovo to Moscow was delayed, reports Interfax.

On Sunday evening in local time, Magadan airport was also evacuated over reports of a bomb …

There are three options for the deployment of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Donbass, said Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski in an interview with Polish media, Ukrinform reports. In contrast, the Russian Federation insists that there should not be any NATO countries participating in the mission and that the leadership of the separatist-held territories must become a subject of dialogue, to which many countries cannot agree, Poland included.

"The first option provides for the …

The government of Japan began drafting scenarios for a military response of Japanese Self-Defense Forces to an armed conflict in the Korean peninsula, the Japan Times newspaper reported, citing the information earlier published by the Kyodo news agency.

According to the agency’s sources, the Japanese National Security Council studied four scenarios that include an accidental clash between the Japanese and North Korean armed forces, a preventive strike of the United States on North Korea, a …

The Government of Canada supports Ukraine in the fight against Russian aggression and refuses to lift sanctions against Moscow, the President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) Paul Grod said, Ukrinform reports.

"There is almost unanimous support of Ukraine among the members of Parliament, understanding that Russia is an aggressor and that one of the key mechanisms to deter the Russian Federation is sanctions," he stated.

"Canada has no risk of lifting sanctions. Moreover, there is no …

Russia uses a development model from a century ago, which is not effective now and which will inevitably lead it to lose the battle for Ukraine, former President of Poland Lech Walesa told 112 Ukraine TV channel

“Today, the world, Europe is being shaped to remove barriers and to level up opportunities and increase the level of development. But Russia, conversely, moves backward. Therefore, it will lose and it is already losing its battle for Ukraine. And it would lose more quickly if Ukraine …

The Belarussian publication of Interfax reports that Belarus has developed the first national cryptocurrency, called the thaler.

The creators of the Belarusian crypto currency plan to launch it on the international exchanges in January.

“We will enter the first international exchanges in January," said one of the creators of the thaler, Sergey Lavrinenko.

In addition, according to Lavrinenko, the thaler is planned to launch on the Belarusian stock exchange, which will soon appear with the …

Russia will take Japan’s deployment of ground-based anti-missile defense systems (ABM) into account in its military planning, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov in a statement published on the Foreign Ministry's website.

"The systems deployed on Japanese territory are technically and functionally identical to the American ones; precisely, those capable of launching both interceptor missiles and assault cruise missiles," Ryabkov said.

The Deputy Minister noted that Moscow is …

The US Air Force signed a contract with the Raytheon Missile Company for the production of AMRAAM missiles. The weapons will be delivered to ten countries around the world, including Poland and Japan, according to the Pentagon website.

The advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles will be produced in Arizona. In addition to missiles, Raytheon will also manufacture spare parts and telemetric equipment. The contract for $634.2 million must be completed by January 31, 2020.

According to the US …