It became known to RBC that Moscow and Kiev have agreed on a mechanism for the release of pilot Nadiya Savchenko and two Russians that are considered “GRU soldiers” in Ukraine. They will be transferred to Russia to serve their sentence at home in synchronization before the end of May.According to RBC, and a federal official source close to the leadership of the Federation Council confirmed, Moscow will transfer Nadiya Savchenko to Ukraine to serve her sentence and Kiev will return two convicted …

Despite the attitude of European businesses toward the anti-Russian sanctions, EU leaders will not dare to remove them because they fear punitive measures by the United States, Wirtschaftswoche reported.

It is becoming increasingly difficult for the German government to persuade other EU countries to extend the anti-Russian sanctions. For example, Hungary and Greece were initially skeptical about this, but now Austria and Italy are demanding the sanctions to be eased, the German newspaper …

The Zhuravlevka and Goptovka border crossing points along the Ukrainian-Russian border have been modernized as part of ‘The Wall’ project; the new enhancements were presented recently in the Kharkov region.

The First Deputy Chief of the State Border Service, Vasily Servatyuk, showed journalists the new engineering structures, samples of military equipment and the capabilities of the ‘smart border’ which will be used to protect military equipment, as reported by Correspondent.

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Russia criticized Turkish authorities for their “absolutely unacceptable” comments during the violence in Nagorno-Karabakh between the separatists supported by Armenia and the Azerbaijani forces.“These were calls not for peace but for war,” the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov stated on April 2nd after negotiations with his Armenian colleague, Edward Nalbandian, in Yerevan.The four-day outbreak of violence resulted in ceasefire agreements but sporadic firing is still on-going. …

The report on the Russian crimes committed in the Donbas region in 2014 was handed over to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

This was reported by Małgorzata Gosiewska, a Deputy of the Polish Sejm and the Deputy Chairman of the Commission of the Lower House of the Polish Parliament on Foreign Affairs on her Facebook page

"Evidence of Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine was presented. Details will follow," Gosiewska wrote.

Earlier Gosiewska stated that this report has an open …

Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the US State Department’s call for Russia to revoke the decision to suspend the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, said that the matter is an internal affair of the Russian Federation.

“This is an issue that concerns exclusively Russian jurisdiction, that is why we don’t consider it possible and necessary to listen to the opinion of other countries,” Peskov stated.

Earlier, the Spokesperson for the United States Department of State, John …

The Ukrainian Border Service has observed two unmanned Russian drones flying over the Donbas region, Interfax-Ukraine reported. The Border Service also stated that a Russian Mi-8 helicopter was seen flying along the administrative border between Crimea and mainland Ukraine.

"In the area of ​​the ATO [the Donbas region] two unmanned aerial vehicles were seen, and also on administrative border the Berdyansk squad observed a Russian Mi-8 helicopter, which carried out flights over the temporarily …

Over the past several weeks, Russian fighter jets intercepted Israeli military aircraft over Syrian airspace on at least two occasions, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported.

According to the newspaper, the issue of airspace violations was discussed during Israeli President Reuven Rivlin’s visit to Moscow in March.

Meanwhile, at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that he intended to discuss the strengthening of …