Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the officials named in the WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) report will be temporarily suspended from their positions until an investigation into the incident is over, the Kremlin's press service reported.

“To let us make a final decision on the responsibility of the government officials we would like to request that the WADA commission provide us with more complete, objective information information, information which is based on facts and which can …

Mark Feygin, a Russian lawyer, says that he has compiled a list of Crimean Tatars who are political prisoners and who are being persecuted on political grounds. According to him, this list is getting longer every week, Krym.Realii reported.

He also says that the list should be included “in future resolutions and statements by official and non-governmental international organizations”.

“It is at 18 people today, but this list grows with each passing week. We as the defenders of the Crimean …

The Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine, Roman Waschuk, wrote on Twitter that Canada has suspended the provision of satellite data to Ukrainian servicemen. “Indeed, the provision of satellite data that wasn’t used for operational tasks has been suspended since May,” Waschuk wrote.

According to him, the funding would be transferred to a new bilateral police mission already deployed in Ukraine that would include up to 20 Canadian police officers.

Waschuk also added that the defense sector …

On the 13th of April, 2014 in Sloviansk, Serhiy Jurikov, nomme de guerre 'Romashka' (Chamomile) was in command of the separatist unit that engaged in one of the first fights with the Ukrainian forces in the Donbas. The captain of the ‘Alpha’ special forces unit of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), Gennady Bilichenko, was killed in that fight, according to an article written by Yuriy Butusov, a journalist of Ukrainian censor.net news portal.

Butusov states that Jurikov was a member of the …

Ukraine is making every effort to ensure that those responsible for the tragedy of the plane crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 have been punished.

“Ukraine remembers each victim of the MH17 crash. Terrorism in any form is unacceptable, and those responsible for this tragedy should be punished,” read the statement made by the Ukrainian head of state on the second anniversary of the tragedy in the skies over a Russian-occupied part of the Donbas, the presidential press service reports. …

The countries that investigated the crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in the Donetsk region confirmed their readiness to bring to justice those responsible for this incident. They released a joint statement to that effect from the permanent representatives of Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ukraine and Malaysia at the United Nations on the behalf of their governments on the occasion of the second anniversary of the crash.

“These states reaffirmed their commitment to take all …

The First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the National Joint-Stock Company, Naftogaz of Ukraine, and the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Odessa Port Plant (OPP), Serhiy Pereloma, were arrested and jailed for 60 days by the court of Kiev on charges of theft of government property, the TV channel 112 Ukraine reports.  

It is reported that the court set bail at 80 million hryvnia ($3.2 million at current exchange rates).  However, after the meeting Pereloma said that he had no such money …

The Press Secretary of the President of Russia, Dmitry Peskov, said that the Kremlin confirms the possibility of a meeting between the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in August, RIA Novosti reports.

"A meeting was discussed and it may take place in August," Peskov said.

It is noted that a source in the office of the Turkish President told television channel NTV that the meeting between Putin and Erdogan may occur at the beginning of …