On the 28th of September, TASS reported that a large-scale check of military police and military traffic police began in the Western Military District. It involves more than a thousand people, according to the chief of the press-service of the region, Igor Muginov.

"More than one thousand soldiers and more than 300 units of military and special equipment of the military police and military traffic police of the Western Military District are undergoing control inspection for 2016. Each unit of …

Malaysia Airline’s Flight MH17 may have crashed due to an operator error of the Buk anti-aircraft. This was reported by the adviser to the chief designer of Russia's state-owned Almaz-Antey, Mikhail Malyshevsky.

According to him, the probability of a Buk missile system operator’s error cannot be ruled out.

“There may be a lot of different reasons for this. It could have happened due to poor crew training, or some wrong baseline data, possibly even some tragic mistakes. For example, a …

Late last week, the Commander of the U.S Army in Europe, Lieutenant General Frederick Benjamin Hodges, visited Latvia and met with the Commander of the National Armed Forces of Latvia, Raimonds Graube, in order to discuss bilateral cooperation and the implementation of the decisions of the Warsaw Summit, as reported by BaltNews.lv.

"I have regularly visited Latvia over the past four years and I see the contributions of the Ministry of Defense and the National Armed Forces of Latvia in the …

Ukraine is confident of its legal position in the court dispute with the Russian Federation in England regarding a $3 billion debt on Eurobonds; however, is still open to the possibility of a peaceful settlement of the dispute, if acceptable grounds are met. This was the report from the Ministry of Finance as told to Interfax-Ukraine when asked to comment on the statement regarding the postponement of the Russian-Ukrainian meeting on this issue that was expected to take place in Washington.

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According to a statement issued by the press service of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, ten people are reported missing on political or ethnic grounds in the Crimea.

“The lack of responsibility and reparations for victims nourishes impunity,” the statement stresses. As noted in the report, the right to peaceful assembly is restricted in the Crimea, and law enforcement authorities continue to examine and persecute people for expressing their opinions, which are wrongfully …

According to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey is “more than ready” to work with Russia on coordinating a ceasefire in Syria and delivering humanitarian aid if the Kremlin is also willing to do so, Reuters reported.

"We discussed the issues of a ceasefire and humanitarian aid with our Iranian counterpart Mr. Zarif yesterday [Iranian Foreign Foreign Minister Javad Zarif]. After the normalization of our relations we are discussing the same issues with our ally Russia," Cavusoglu …

According to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, a recent statement made by US State Department spokesman John Kirby is tantamount to inviting terrorists to use weapons against Russia, TASS reported.

On Wednesday, Kirby stated that one of the consequences of the war in Syria could be possible extremist "attacks against Russian interests, perhaps even Russian cities."

"And Russia will continue to send troops home in body bags," he added.

Ryabkov, in turn, stated "We cannot …

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has requested that the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) halt legal proceedings regarding the defense of the rights of Russian athletes in order to restore the membership of the RPC. The chairman of the Executive Committee of the Russian Paralympic Committee, Pavel Rozhkov, stated this at the meeting of the Federation Council on social policy, Interfax reported.

“We have sent a second request to the International Paralympic Committee on criteria …