The meeting of the NATO-Russia Council will be held on July 13th in Brussels at the NATO headquarters, reads a statement issued on Wednesday on behalf of the NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg. "The meeting will take place on 13 July at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, shortly after the NATO Summit in Warsaw," as mentioned in the document.

"Our discussions will focus on the crisis in and around Ukraine and the need to fully implement the Minsk Agreements. We will also look at military …

Almost 40 Western countries that supported sanctions against Russia in the last year and a half lost slightly more than $60 billion in profit, French experts calculated. This conclusion was made by experts from the French Research Center on International Economics (CEPII). The report, which was presented on Wednesday, July 6, covers the period from December 2013 to June 2015.

As noted in the study, the main losses (82.2%) did not happen because of the products that came under the ban as a …

Russia has sent a spy ship to the shores of Hawaii to monitor the US-led Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2016 naval exercises, according to Pacific Fleet Spokesman Lieutenant Clint Ramsden.

The spokesman explained that the Russian Balzam-class auxiliary general intelligence ship “recently” arrived in international waters off the coast of Hawaii.

“Obviously, we are aware that it is there, and we’ve taken all precautions necessary to protect our critical information. Its presence has not affected …

Two leading Russian liberal media outlets, TV channels Dozhd (Rain) and Ekho Moskvy, are under pressure from Russian authorities. The Prosecutor General's Office will again investigate the TV channel Dozhd at the request of the Russian Anti-maidan

Two leading Russian liberal media outlets, TV channels Dozhd (Rain) and Ekho Moskvy, are under pressure from Russian authorities. The Prosecutor General's Office will again investigate the TV channel Dozhd at the request of the Russian Anti-maidan …

While delivering a report on the investigation of corrupt schemes, the new Ukrainian Prosecutor General, Yuriy Lutsenko, allegedly wore a watch worth 30,000 US dollars, as reported by the Ukrainian Ukrainski Novyny (Ukrainian News) news portal.

“The Prosecutor General came to Verkhovna Rada to deliver a report requesting removal of parliamentary immunity from Oleksandr Onyshchenko, who is under investigation over corrupt schemes in the Ukrainian gas market. The Prosecutor General had a Ulysse …

In September, the European Parliament will present a report about threats from Russian propaganda aimed against countries of the European Union. The former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland and member of the European Parliament, Anna Fotyga, made the announcement during her interview with Ukrinform.

“This report was prepared by my office; the discussion is ongoing within the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, of which I am a member. The vote on this document will take …

Ukraine and US will carry out a joint launch of the Antares rocket in August 2016. This was reported by the Head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, Liubomyr Sabadosh.

“The trials of the rocket were completed in July. There were no issues with the functioning of the systems and modules of the first stage of the rocket. The first launch of Antares is planned for August, 2016,” Sabadosh said.

Antares made its inaugural flight on April 21, 2013. Ukraine is working on the main structure of the …

The U.S. Government officially allowed the world’s largest online learning platform, Coursera, to resume its work in the annexed territories of Crimea and Sevastopol, despite the sanctions, as reported by Kommersant on Tuesday, citing the Russian partners of the Higher School of Economics (a University which cooperates with Coursera).

It became possible after obtaining a special license from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control.

According to the newspaper, …