The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko said in his Day of Dignity and Freedom speech that Russia is attempting to destabilize the country in order to ensure early parliamentary elections, strengthen pro-Russian positions in the new Parliament and, in the end, cancel the European course of Ukraine.

“The enemy not only attacks from the outside but also undermines our country from the inside. The Kremlin’s purpose includes constant internal destabilization, anarchy, early parliamentary …

At the closing session of the All-Russia civil forum, the head of the Civil Initiatives Committee and the former minister of finance, Alexei Kudrin, compared the situation in modern Russia with the later period of development of the Soviet Union. According to him, Russia now faces the same risks of decentralization and regionalization of the country, Radio Svoboda reports.

“The USSR collapsed not because of the weak army or the weak committee for state security. It collapsed because of an …

Gazprom’s price for the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine may grow by 4 billion dollars a year should Ukraine succeed in the Stockholm arbitration, and be granted the amendment to the contract with Gazprom to adhere to European norms, as was posted on Facebook by the Commercial Director of Naftogaz of Ukraine, Yuriy Vitrenko, on November 19th.

Reiterating Ukraine’s position prior to the hearings in Stockholm which were scheduled for November 21st, Vitrenko also indicated that Gazprom will …

The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Rus, Vladimir Gundyaev, has expressed confidence that the reconciliation and restoration of fraternal relations between Kyiv and Moscow are inevitable, as reported by Interfax-Religion.

According to him, the minority was involved in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and the conflict itself hasn’t affected deeper layers.

Gundyaev expressed a special hope that the Russian Orthodox Church and its Sister …

Several localities in the Donbas including Avdiivka and a part of Donetsk are without water due to ongoing fighting. As reported by Ukrayinska Pravda, the Donetsk filter station came under shelling.

According to information from Ukrainian servicemen, separatists fired in the direction of the station. Supporters of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic report that localities are without water due to fire from government troops.

In the last day, three Ukrainian servicemen have been …

Russia will deploy Iskander missile systems as well as S-400 Triumf anti-aircraft systems in Kaliningrad district, according to the chairman of the Federation Council Defence and Security Committee, Victor Ozerov, as reported by Russia’s RIA news agency.

According to Ozerov, Russia is strengthening its air defense capability on its western border in response to deployment of the American anti-aircraft system in Europe.

“We have to strengthen our system of air defense in this direction, bring …

US President Barack Obama, during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, urged the Russian President to try and make progress in the implementation of the Minsk Agreements before the end of his term in January 2017.

Obama discussed the content of his conversation with the Russian leader at the final press conference following the APEC summit.

"I talked with Putin about Ukraine, about the need to implement the Minsk Agreements. I called on him to instruct his negotiating team to work …

Popular Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda has openly accused the head of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR), Igor Plotnitsky, and his clique of systematic corruption in the article ‘Operation Pilyulkiny’.

“It isn’t a secret that corruption scandals regarding the inner circle of Igor Plotnitsky are upsetting the rest of the LPR. Almost each sector representing an economic interest is managed by someone known to Plotnitsky. As a result, there is now a shadow economy, higher …