Canada will send more than 450 soldiers to Latvia in May 2017 within the framework of NATO's efforts to expand its presence in the Baltic region, the AFP agency reported on Friday, September 16.

The day before, Canadian General Jonathan Vance had confirmed the deployment of 455 servicemen to Latvia. "I think the soldiers will start arriving next spring, around May", Vance told the reporters. According to him, this process should be completed in early fall.

In July, NATO approved the …

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he hopes the US will stick to its commitments in Syria, Reuters reported. Putin noted that he believes the US and Russia share a common interest in securing a truce in the war torn country.

While Moscow insists that Russian airstrikes in Syria are carried out primarily against extremist groups, including but not limited to the so-called Islamic State, Washington has accused Russia of targeting US-backed rebel groups.

Putin told reporters in Bishkek on …

The Russian and Chinese navies, as part of the joint Cooperation-2016 exercises in the South China Sea, have so far focused on ship defense, according to the head of the department of information support of the press service of the Russian Eastern Military District for the Pacific Fleet, Captain Vladimir Matveev.

"The crew members have practiced the elements of anti-submarine-sabotage defense, air defense and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) on unprotected raid. In addition, in the course of joint …

Ukraine and Kazakhstan are planning to establish joint ventures to extract uranium in the territory of both countries, as reported by Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine Ihor Nasalik at a "round table" on Thursday, September 15th.

"We have prepared the documents. On Monday, (September 19th) representatives of Kazakhstan will arrive to sign a memorandum on the establishment of the joint venture for uranium mining in both Ukraine and Kazakhstan,” Nasalik said.

Earlier, the National Atomic …

Attempts made by the German and French foreign ministers to revive the Minsk Agreements in Moscow and the Donbas have caused a sharp reaction from Ukrainian politicians and experts. The foreign ministers discussed this issue during their visit to Kiev. Ukraine does not believe that Europe has the ability to ensure a ceasefire in the Donbas. They also do not agree with the ministers’ proposal on the procedure for the fulfillment of the Minsk Agreements, Deutsche Welle reported.

Set against a …

The commission investigating the plane crash near Smolensk has evidence of Russia’s tampering with some data relating to the tragedy, according to the commission’s chairperson, Wacław Berczyński. Ukrinform reported the chairperson’s comments during a press-conference in Warsaw.

"Collecting the data, we are also trying to determine its credibility because we received a lot of data, for example, from Russian, i.e. foreign sources. We have already found evidence that some data was manipulated,” …

The Russian Government "hardly" has the money for the construction of the Kerch Strait Bridge in the Crimea, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev acknowledged that Russia lacks the money for the implementation of large-scale Crimean projects, in particular for the construction the bridge over the Kerch Strait and the Tavrida highway, he said during a meeting of the Presidium of the State Council of the Russian Federation on the development of the …

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Crimea on Thursday and visited the construction site of the Kerch Strait Bridge, according to the Kremlin press service. Before that, he held a meeting in Kerch on the development of the transport infrastructure of Southern Russia and the Crimea where he noted the good pace of the bridge construction.

"But I want to remind you that the transport passage across the Kerch Strait is not only the bridge itself: it is necessary to qualitatively prepare …