Nadiya Savchenko, who was recently sentenced to 22 years imprisonment in Russia, will be returned to Ukraine in the coming weeks, as reported by Grani, citing a closed-door meeting held by the Ambassador of Russia to Ukraine, Mikhail Zurabov. Zurabov didn’t specify whether the release would be an exchange of Savchenko for arrested Russians.According to a spokesperson for Grani, who attended the meeting, Zurabov noted that Russia was ready to return Savchenko to her homeland by the 8th of March. …

During the meeting of the humanitarian subgroup of Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk on Wednesday, March 23rd, representatives of the self-proclaimed republics of the Donbas were "debating absolutely destructively," said a spokeswoman for Ukraine, MP Iryna Herashchenko, as reported by Deutsche Welle. "They, yet again, artificially understate the number of hostages on their territories. We are painstakingly collecting information about the locations of prisoners, whom neither the mission of the …

US Vice President Joe Biden reminded the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, about the critical importance of creating a stable government and parliamentary coalition in his country during a telephone conversation with the Ukrainian leader on March 22nd, 2016.

According to a White House report on the conversation, the stabilization of the Ukrainian political system is the main condition for the successful implementation of the necessary reforms in Ukraine.

In addition, Biden and …

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, took part in the launch of the Neutron Source Facility on March 23. The research lab is located at the National Science Center, Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology.

"The Neutron Source Facility will allow Ukraine to conduct research in various fields of science and technology, produce almost the entire spectrum of radioisotopes for needs of medicine and industry, as well as solve problems of the …

More than a thousand cases on Russian involvement in terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq are being investigated in Russia, as reported by Prosecutor Yury Chaika. “Access to thousands of resources on the Internet has been limited at the request of the Prosecutor General’s office; unlawful information has been removed from nearly seven thousand websites. More than a thousand cases are being investigated for involvement of our citizens in terrorist groups on the territory of Iraq and Syria,” he …

During a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry in Moscow, the two diplomats discussed the fate of Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, reports Interfax. The exact results of the talks remain unknown.

 "Yes, the issue was raised," answered the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, when asked if Kerry and Lavrov discussed the issue.

According to Zakharova, the talks between the Foreign Minister and Secretary of State …

The World Bank notes that the government of Ukraine has made decisive steps towards removing the middleman between Gazprom and Ukraine in an attempt to root out a major source of corruption. This was stated by the World Bank Country Director for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, Europe and Central Asia, Qimiao Fan.

"The Ukrainian government has already taken some important steps towards transforming the gas market… [by removing things] that resist change in the area that drives reforms. An …

The Chechen Prosecutor's Office reported that it found no extremism in statements made by the head of the Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, concerning the non-systemic Russian opposition, according to the Prosecutor of the Chechen Republic, Sharpuddi Abdul-Kadyrov, as reported by RIA Novosti reported.

"Those who turned about the extremist manifestations in these expressions, we gave them the answer — we did not see any extremism in his speeches", the Prosecutor said.  

In January, Kadyrov stated that …