Ex-deputy of the Party of Regions said that everything was recorded on video and the evidence has already been passed to the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU).

A former MP from the Party of Regions, Volodymyr Landik, stated on the air of Radio Liberty’s Donbas.Realii program that the capture of the Luhansk Regional State Administration building and the regional branch of the SSU in March 2014 was organized by the former leader of the Party of Regions of the Verkhovna Rada, Alexandr Yefremov. …

The construction of the railway approaches to the Kerch Strait Bridge from Crimean side is six months behind schedule because officials forgot to identify the project’s customer in official reports.

According to Forbes, the construction did not start because the state customer for this type of work wasn't identified in the federal targeted program on the development of Crimea and Sevastopol. The approaches must connect the railway part of the bridge with the railway network of Crimea. It will …

Russia is experiencing a recession this year, so it is too early to speak about the recovery of the economic activity of the country, according to the experts at Russia's National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), RBC reports.

The report states that the compression process of the economy was a "broad front" and has affected all sectors (except for wholesale trade) and, as a result, "the economy has not only reached the previous low, but has gone below it."

Experts note …

Russian Deputy Minister of Defense Yuriy Borisov claimed that the Russian army has already adopted a number of different types of laser weapons, equipping themselves with weapons based on new principles of physics.

According to the Russian media, Borisov spoke at the event marking the 70th anniversary of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics. The Deputy Minister said these are not exotic devices or prototypes, but models that have already passed the testing …

In response to Voice of America’s request for comment regarding US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s statement about Crimea and the Donbas, the US Senator from Tennessee, Bob Corker, stated that the United States should continue to respond to Russia’s aggression related to the invasion into eastern Ukraine and illegal annexation of Crimea.

“I have supported providing lethal weapons to Ukraine and believe we should help our allies resist efforts to change borders by force,” Bob …

During a joint press conference with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, US President Barack Obama explained the difficulties in attempting to cooperate with Russia to end the violence in Syria while simultaneously attempting to force Russia to implement the Minsk Agreements and end its role in the war in eastern Ukraine.

“I think we’ve already got a lot of differences with Russia on a whole bunch of issues,” Obama stated, according to a press release on the White House’s website. “But I …

Tehran will study a proposal submitted by Kiev about the possibility of transporting Iranian oil to Slovakia and the Czech Republic via Ukraine, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

Following a meeting between Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh the Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine, Igor Nasalik, the former stated that Tehran is ready to begin cooperation with Kiev on supplying oil directly to Ukraine, despite the fact that Ukrainian oil refining capabilities are minor.

Iranian …

Russia is ready to begin talks with Ukraine with regard to the resumption of flights between the two countries, as stated by the Russian Transport Minister, Maxim Sokolov, RIA Novosti reported.

“Because of the crucial decisions that were recently made regarding the personnel policy of cooperating with Ukraine, there is some hope. I personally have hope. Negotiations are still under way, even though our position is open. In the current situation, it is mutually beneficial to unlock the existing …