Nancy Jackson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration and Rob Jenkins, Deputy Assistant Administrator for the USAID Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, stated during a meeting in Kiev that the U.S.A. will provide an additional $28 million in humanitarian assistance to support those affected by the conflict in the Donbas and the annexed Crimea.

According to them, this assistance will help to address the needs …

For an unknown reason, several towns and regions in Crimea are left without power.

According to Cryminform, Simferopol, Alushta, Yalta, and the northern and western regions of Crimea and Sevastopol were cut off from power at 13:15 yesterday. The Emergency Situations Ministry, the Ministry of Fuel and Power for the republic and Krymenergo have yet to give an explanation as to what caused this incident. According a source in the Kerch City Council, a voltage drop occurred at a central …

The Tallinn District Court granted an appeal filed by the Government of Estonia against the decision of the lower court and now, Estonian citizen Vladimir Polyakov, suspected of terrorist activity in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, can be extradited to Kiev, BaltNews reported. On May 19th, the Tallinn District Court granted the appeal filed by the Government of Estonia and overturned the decision of Tallinn Administrative Court of 3rd of February 2016.

The Court issued a new decision, according …

The Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marina Kaljurand, stated that the normalization of relations between Russia and NATO shouldn’t be expected, Postimees reported.

“The normalization of relations between Russia and NATO isn’t expected, that is why the current policy on Russia will be discussed in Warsaw,” Kaljurand believes.

“The relations are frozen because Russia violated international law by annexing the Crimea,” the Foreign Minister added.

According to Kaljurand, the NATO-Russia …

Dmitry Peskov, Russian diplomat and Press Secretary for Russian President Vladimir Putin, stated that the Kremlin is following the issue on sanctions against Russia with great interest, but Moscow itself will not discuss this issue.

“We watch with great interest how the issue on sanctions is being discussed by all the countries, which are all taking on serious losses because of these sanctions,” TASS quoted Peskov as saying. “We continue to treat the allegations or, more correctly, attempts to …

Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work stated that the cases of Russian aircraft maneuvering near U.S. ships and aircraft can cause an “accidental confrontation.”

“One minor incident, of which both parties will accuse each other, may lead to an accidental confrontation, and none of us is interested in that,” he said at the American-Norwegian Defense Conference in Washington.

Work noted that the U.S.A. has already seen “unsafe and unprofessional maneuvers made by Russian aircraft and ships.”

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has uncovered a probable link between American banks and the Russian doping scandal. The investigation is looking into such crimes as money laundering, bribery and conspiracy.

The FBI is investigating the probable involvement of U.S. banks in the Russian athlete doping scandal, according to CBS News, citing a source close to the investigation. "According to a person familiar with the investigation, the FBI is trying to find out if there is any U.S. …

Ukrainian Parliamentarians decided to rename the major Ukrainian regional center Dnipropetrovsk to “Dnipro” and Dniprodzerzhynsk to “Kamianske” within the adopted law on de-communization. The MPs of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted in favor of renaming both cities and a number of others under the said law. According to the 112.ua website, the draft of this resolution was approved by 247 Parliamentarians after much lively debate.

The People’s Deputy from the Opposition Bloc, Oleksandr Vilkul …