Authorities of the occupied peninsula are waiting for tourists from China for the 2016 holiday season.

The occupational authorities of the Crimea hope that they will be able to surprise tourists from China during the holiday season and compensate for the shortage of vacationers, according to the head of the Crimean Parliament Committee for Health Resorts and Tourism, Alexey Chernyak.

"The first group of more than 20 people visited Sevastopol on May 9th. We are already receiving pre-orders for …

Russia may refuse to participate in the next Eurovision contest which will he be held in Ukraine next year.

Franz Klintsevitch, First Deputy Head of the United Russia faction of the Russian Parliament, made these remarks while speaking to Russian journalists.

"It wasn't Ukrainian singer Jamala with her 1944 song who won the Eurovision-2016 contest but rather politics took the upper hand over art. And this is the first time it happened so obviously. Next year Eurovision will be held in Kiev …

German sports functionaries have called for Russia be barred from participating in the summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in connection with the expanding scandal around the use of doping in Russian sports, DW reports.

"This is a very serious accusation. If stimulants are used in Russia so systematically, then the Russian team shouldn't go to the summer games in Rio,” said Clemens Prokop, the president of the German Athletics Association.

The CEO of the German Olympic Sports Confederation, …

American Senators proposed to allocate $500 million for assistance to Ukraine, including allocation of funds on lethal weapons.

According to the information released on the website of the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, John McCain, the U.S. Senate proposes to provide $500 million for assistance to Ukraine, including allocation of funds for lethal weapons in the draft budget for 2017. On the 13th of May, Senators announced the completion of work on the draft budget of the U.S. …

At the 71st session of the UN General Assembly, the Ukrainian delegation to the UN made a statement calling for the International Criminal Court to investigate crimes in the East of Ukraine and bring to justice those responsible for mass killings.

Ukrinform quoted the statement of Ukrainian diplomats as saying “In light of the current difficult situation within and around Ukraine we fully recognize that there is an urgent need to ensure global jurisdiction, legitimacy and the International …

Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund may sign an updated memorandum of cooperation in the coming weeks, according to Finance Minister Olexander Danylyuk, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

“Now that a new government is appointed… the agreement on a new memorandum will come in a matter of weeks,” Danylyuk said in an interview which was published on the Ministry’s website.

According to the newly-appointed Finance Minister, the break in cooperation with the IMF was due to the political …

A strategic reconnaissance plane RC-135V of the US Air force approached the coastal line of the Russian Kaliningrad region on Sunday, as reported by the Western aviation portals monitoring the routes of military aircraft.

The reconnaissance jet with tail number 64-14844 and call sign ELGIN33 departed from the RAF Mildenhall airbase in the UK and is now on a NATO mission flight in the southern Baltic.

According to Swedish aviation sites, a Russian Su-27 was scrambled from the Kaliningrad …

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stated that a special fund for the restoration of the Donbas will be established in Ukraine and financed through budgetary funds and international assistance, his press service reported.

"Work is continuing on a special fund which will be directed for the restoration of the Donbas,” the President stated.

According to Poroshenko, the fund will be formed using the state budget of Ukraine and donor assistance of partner countries and international financial …