The US government is “deeply concerned” over Russia’s recent ban of the LinkedIn website, as stated by a spokesperson of the US Embassy in Moscow, Maria Olson, TASS reported.

Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications, also known as Roskomnadzor, announced on Thursday that it had banned LinkedIn and instructed Russian telecommunications operators to block the website.

According to Olson, "This decision is the first of …

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that strategic missile carriers from the Russian Aerospace Forces, or Vozdushno-Kosmicheskiye Sily (VKS), attacked infrastructure of the ISIL and Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organizations on the territory of Syria with cruise missiles.

The Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation specified that launches of the air-based cruise missiles were made from the area above the Mediterranean Sea. The planes took off from one of the airports in the territory of …

Moscow has begun establishing contacts with the representatives of the team of the US president-elect, Donald Trump, over Syria, stated the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Bogdanov, while speaking to journalists on Thursday, reported Russia's Interfax news agency.

“We are at a crucial point; the new team of the president-elect, Donald Trump, is taking over. We are beginning to establish contacts with people who will most likely be helping the new president, …

Russia has made the list of the most corrupt countries in Europe and Central Asia, according to the study "Global Corruption Barometer” published by Transparency International.

In the study, respondents answered questions about the most serious problems facing their countries, about how they evaluate the corruption of government institutions and about the efforts of the country's leadership to combat corruption.

"These studies suggest that corruption is perceived by the Russians as the third …

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Germany is concerned that Russia may interfere in the 2017 Bundestag election campaigns.

“Last year, we saw that Russia influenced the formation of public opinion in Germany. We are concerned that the same might happen next year,” this was said by the president of the agency, Hans-Georg Maaßen, during an interview with Reuters.

As an example of this, Maaßen mentioned the alleged kidnapping of a Russian girl named Lisa in Berlin. At …

Former Ukrainian military forces who now live in the Crimea could become "potential victims of the Russian special services." This opinion was expressed by the speaker of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine on ATO issues, Andrey Lysenko in an interview with Krym.Realii on November 16.

"The territory annexed by the Russian Federation is home to thousands of former Ukrainian servicemen who had retired to the reserve. At any time, the Russian security forces can detain and pass off such people as ' …

Even before winning the United States Presidential Elections, President-elect Donald Trump promised to raise the issue of the return of the wreckage of the Tu-154 during negotiations with Russia.

"I heard about the case and that the Russians do not want to return the fragments. I will try to help Poland in this regard," the politician said after the Congress of Polish Americans in September.

TVP Polonia reports that Trump also spoke about the "great respect to the Polish people" and that he …

The cancellation of economic sanctions against Poland and the return of the wreckage of the Polish president Lech Kaczynski’s Tu-154 plane are the conditions required to improve relations with Russia. This was stated by the Polish minister of foreign affairs, Witold Waszczykowski, while commenting on the statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin about restoring dialogue between the two countries.

Last week, the Russian leader, receiving credentials from a number of new ambassadors, …