On Monday, the Russian Ministry of Justice added the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People to the list of organizations that are suspended on the territory of the Russian Federation due to “extremist activity”, Interfax reported.

The Ministry noted that the organization was included on the list on the basis of Russian-Crimean Prosecutor General Natalia Poklonskaya’s decision to suspend the activities of the public association on the annexed peninsula.

As explained by the Prosecutor General, the …

Military commanders in Moscow insist on compliance of the Russian fighter jet with international rules in the case of the incident with a US spy plane over the Baltic Sea.

Russian fighter jet Su-27 did not commit a dangerous rapprochement with the US Air Force aircraft in the skies over the Baltic Sea. The official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konashenkov, made such a statement on Sunday, April 17. According to him, "the entire flight …

PACE President Pedro Agramunt urged Russia to release Ukrainian pilot and member of the Assembly, Nadiya Savchenko, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

"At the beginning of the April session of PACE, I have to reiterate our serious concerns about the situation of our member Nadezhda Savchenko, who remains in custody in the Russian Federation,” Agramunt stated

According to him, the release Savchenko is especially important in light of the reports of her ongoing hunger strike and the deterioration of …

A court in Kiev found Evgeny Yerofeyev and Alexander Alexandrov guilty of waging war, sentencing the two Russian soldiers to 14 years in prison, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

Both were found guilty and are “to be punished for multiple crimes by having the least penalty absorbed by a harsher one, with the court determining the final penalty… in the form of 14 years of imprisonment with a confiscation of all the property owned by the convicts," the verdict read.

According to Ukrainian law, the …

The Russian Minister of Finance, Anton Siluanov, stated that Russia will continue negotiations with the International Monetary Fund concerning the non-payment of $3 billion, which the former President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovich, took on credit, TASS reported.

“We have been discussing the cooperation of the International Monetary Fund in an effort to secure its obligations on behalf of Ukraine and the consequences of the default that Ukraine allowed to happen with this debt,” Siluanov said. …

The progress on the implementation of the Minsk Agreements is disappointing, but not disastrous and pressure on Russia needs to be maintained, said the Deputy Secretary General of NATO, Oleksandr Vershbow, on the TV program TSN Tyzhden, on Sunday, April 17, 2016.

"I don't agree that the Minsk process is already a failure. Clearly, the international pressure, including the sanctions, need to continue. Russia needs to understand that complying with only half of the measures will not satisfy the …

Russian experts believe that the negotiations in Doha will result in a fuel price slump and the depreciation of the ruble as participants have yet to agree on an oil production freeze, as reported by RBC.

"In the short-term for sure, we will see a decrease in oil prices, it was 43 dollars per barrel over the weekend. Of course, it will go down, how much exactly, I can't say, but it is obvious," says the former Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, Oleg Vyugin.

According to an …

Russian journalist, Marina Ahmedova, wrote a blog which contains information on Russia’s support of the self-proclaimed LPR and DPR (Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics). Ahmedova stated that the separatists who captured the Donbas were made out to be heroes.  

“Russian journalists were the ones who decided to make heroes of some militia members. They were with them all the time, went to the front lines with them and broadcasted their military and daily life. They actively glorified heroic …