A Senior Lecturer from the National Defense College, Thomas Ries, told Aftonbladet newspaper that the deployment of two submarines to the naval base in Kaliningrad is part of Russia's strategy to establish control over the Baltic Sea.

Two small missile ships, the Zeleny Dol and the Serpukhov, were added to the Russian Baltic Fleet this week. They were transferred from the Black Sea Fleet.

Ries explained that in the event of a conflict, corvettes equipped with Kalibr missiles will be able to …

Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, said that Russia will be re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council next year. This was said on 28 October, when commenting on the results of the vote of the General Assembly, when Russia did not receive the required majority of votes, losing to Hungary and Croatia.

"We were in it for several years, I'm sure the next time we will be included again," Churkin said, adding that Russia "needs a break."

More than 80 human rights groups …

Georgian Prime Minister Georgy Kvirikashvili said that Tbilisi is seeking to ease tensions with Moscow, TASS reported.

"Georgia will continue to pursue its policy of easing tensions with the Russian Federation," Kvirikashvili said.

"We will continue to seek ways to get the relationship with Russia back to normal, but everybody should understand that nothing will be done to harm Georgia’s territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders,” the Prime Minister explained.

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The Supreme Specialized Court of Ukraine has opened proceedings on the issue of establishing the fact of Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine. The proceeding was opened on the application of the Director of the Open Court project, Stanislav Batryn, Zn.ua reported.

According to the edition, the Court has evoked the case from the Shevchenkivskiy District Court of Kyiv, where the case was initially reviewed. Batryn first filed his claim two years ago. The Ukrainian activist stated that he …

The ideologists that conceptualized the self-proclaimed republics of the Donbas do not live within the so-called DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) and LPR (Luhansk People's Republic). This was reported by journalist Denis Kazansky on his website while commenting on the presentation of a book by Donetsk political analyst Vladimir Kornilov called "Donetsk Republic: the shot down dream.”

Kazansky noted that Kornilov is "one of the ideologists of Donetsk separatism and creator of the DPR." According …

The leader of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, ordered that his subjects dismantle one of the largest enterprises in the Donetsk region—Horlivka chemical concern Stirol—in the near future.

Ukrinform reported that according to an unnamed source, plans have been made to organize and carry out the export of 90% of the enterprise’s equipment and service utilities for scrap metal to Russia.

In order to avoid protests among the local population, the process of …

A representative from the Russian Defense Ministry accused US forces of causing a dangerously close encounter between aircraft over Syria earlier this month.

On Friday, US officials said that a Russian plane flew dangerously close to a combat aircraft from the US-led coalition.

According to the officials, the incident, which occurred on October 17, was not a threat. The Russian pilot just lost “control over the situation.”

On October 29, Russian Major-General Igor Konashenkov rejected this …

The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities refuses to supply Soyuz carrier rockets to the French company Arianespace because of non-payment of 300 million euros. These assets have been blocked by a French court in connection with the Yukos case, the French edition of Les Echos wrote on Friday, October 28th.

"We do not get money from Arianespace for our work. No money, no product. We cannot work for free," Les Echos stated, quoting the press service of Roscosmos. The said amount was …