• Moldova refuses to send MPs to inter-parliamentary group meeting in Moscow

    Newsmaker.md news agency, citing the press service of the Moldovan Parliament, reports that the permanent bureau of the Moldovan parliament has decided neither to send MPs nor to allocate budgetary funds for a meeting of the Moldovan-Russian Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group in Moscow.

    According to Newsmaker, those MPs wishing to go are invited to go at their own expense and without an official mandate from the Parliament.

    The possible participation of some deputies will be carried out at …

  • EU to allocate 1 million euro annually to counter fake news coming from Russia

    The European Union will increase the funding of the working group that works on countering Russian disinformation and monitors the news on Russian media. Starting in 2018, 1.1 million euros will be allocated for these purposes annually for three years from the budget of the EU, Voice of America reports.

    The operational working group on strategic communications East StratCom Task Force was established in March 2015 by the decision of the heads of states and government of the countries of the …

  • EU condemns Russian 'Foreign Agent' media law

    The EU asserted that the “foreign agent” media law, signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on November 25th, runs counter to Russia’s obligations to uphold human rights and threatens “free and independent media.”

    This is another attempt to hinder the development of a civil society in the country, said the European Union External Action on Sunday, November 26.

    In Brussels, they are sure that as a result of “fines, checks, and the stigma” associated with the implementation of the law, “the …

  • Russia expels Polish scholar

    The Institute of National Remembrance of Poland or IPN said that Polish scientist Henryk Glebocki, who researched relations between Moscow and Warsaw in the 19th to 20th centuries, was expelled from Russia.

    The institute's statement says that on November 24, 2017, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation detained Dr. Glebocki, who is a research fellow at the Jagiellonian University, in Moscow. The detainee was told that, according to the FSB decision from November 21, he must …

  • New leader of LPR promised not to disrupt prisoner exchange with Ukraine

    The successor of the former head of LPR (Luhansk People’s Republic), Igor Plotnitsky’s, Leonid Pasechnik said that he will not prevent the exchange of prisoners.

    "Of course, the resignation of Igor Venediktovich will not impact the exchange of prisoners, the process continues. The leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the People's Militia verified our people who are detained, who are on our territory, and are subject for an exchange. I will be given a list on Monday and will …

  • Lithuania to provide Ukraine with €2 million of weapons

    The Lithuanian government has decided to give Ukraine €1.93 million of weapons, including 7,000 Kalashnikov automatic rifles and 2 million bullets, and 80 machine guns, mortars and antitank weapons. This was reported on Sunday November 26 by RIA Novosti with reference to the Lithuanian government’s draft resolution, drawn up by the Defense Ministry of the Baltic republic and published on its official page.

    “The Lithuanian government has decided to transfer material property worth €1.93 million …

  • Ukrainian military command: Ukrainian soldier captured during a fight near Krymske

    A soldier from the 16th Motorized Infantry Battalion (MIB) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was taken prisoner during the fighting on November 23 near Krymske in the Luhansk province,  as reported  by the 16th MIB on Facebook.

    “In connection with the spread of distorted information on the soldiers killed in the fighting of November 23 near Krymske in the Luhansk province, we present an explanation. It was officially reported that four Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the mentioned territory. It …

  • US Navy Missile Destroyer enters Black Sea

    The American missile destroyer USS James E. Williams (DDG95) entered the Black Sea on Sunday, as reported by Turkish media outlets, which published photographs of its passage through the Bosporus Strait.

    The US Navy’s Arleigh Burke class destroyer, equipped with 56 Tomahawk cruise missiles, is heading north along the western coast of the Black Sea.

    In August of this year, the destroyer James E. Williams was in the Baltic Sea. The American ship was in Riga.

    The James E. Williams sailed to the …

  • Russian airstrikes kill 34 civilians including 15 children in Syria

    On the morning of Sunday, November 26, Russian Air Forces and forces of the Syrian government conducted an air raid and struck the village of al-Shafah in the province of Deir ez-Zor in Syria, reports the news agency Deutsche Welle.

    “The planes hit base stations and militants gathered in the Euphrates Valley,” said a statement released by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

    However, civilians were also killed during these air raids. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), 34 …

  • Military expert: change of power in separatist LPR is a result of internal struggle between Russian special services and Russian military

    The removal of so-called head of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), Igor Plotnisky, from his position is the result of internecine power struggles between Russian proxies in the separatist-controlled Donbas. Recent events in the LPR indicate that Russian military won in a confrontation with Russian security services, military expert Oleg Zhdanov told Apostrof news agency.   

    The events in Luhansk are actually inner fight among the Russian special services. Most likely, Russia wants to create …