Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro will make an official visit to Russia soon, reports the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela on Twitter.

"Soon the President Nicolás Maduro will sign new agreements in Russia for the benefit of the people," the report said.

At the same time, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry did not specify the dates of Maduro's visit to Russia, and also did not specify what agreements are mentioned.

Commenting on this information, the Press …

Between 10 and 11 June, a Ukrainian delegation headed by Mikhail Fedorov, advisor to President Volodymyr Zelensky, visited Estonia, the Presidential Administration announced on its website.

The primary purpose of the work visit was to obtain a professional appraisal of the “E-Government” concept and to solicit Estonia’s expertise.

“Estonia was the first in the world to introduce the electronic interaction of registers and ID cards, hold electronic elections, reach an online services figure of …

The ambassadors of the European Union agreed to extend the sanctions against Russia, that were imposed for the annexation of Crimea for another year. The decision was made in Brussels on Wednesday, at a meeting of Committee of the Permanent Representatives of the Governments of the Member States to the European Union (COREPER), reports Interfax-Ukraine.

This decision should also be approved by the EU Council next week. The sanctions were introduced in June 2014 and are extended annually by one …

The head of the mission of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Albert Jonsson said that the Russian Federation did not nominate its long-term observers for the parliamentary elections in Ukraine, reports Ukrinform News Agency.

Jonsson also explained that the ODIHR invites all OSCE participating countries to nominate their candidates for teams of long-term and short-term observers.

"So far, Russia has not submitted its candidates to the team of long-term …

The demand from wealthy Russians for real estate in Cyprus surged by 40.4% in the first quarter of 2019, according to a study by the Prian.ru service, the results of which were published by Kommersant.

The spike in interest was triggered by an announcement in winter that the Cypriot program of granting citizenship in exchange for investment in property would be made stricter. The amendments to Cyprus’s citizenship program came into force on 15 May, observes Prian.ru expert Filipp Brezin.

A …

Russian officials have suggested that the Chinese cellphone company Huawei replace Google’s Android OS with the Aurora OS developed in Russia, reports the Bell citing two informed sources.

The idea was brought up shortly before the start of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in a meeting between Huawei Chief Executive Director Guo Ping and Russian Minister of Digital Development and Communications Konstantin Noskov, and was later discussed at meetings between Vladimir Putin and Xi …

The Russian government has allowed to classify the information about legal entities working in the occupied Crimea. The corresponding resolution No. 729 was published and signed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on June 10.

The resolution states that access to information in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities of the Russian Federation may be restricted if a company works on the territory of the annexed Crimea and Sevastopol. Companies that work on the Russian state defense …

Russian officials are continuing their attempts to block all the ways to connect to the internet that cannot be monitored by the state.

The Ministry of Digital Development and Communications has drafted a bill to impose fines for connecting to satellite internet in circumvention of the federal censorship agency’s blocking mechanisms.

According to the bill, which was published on the official legal information portal, the use of “satellite communication networks under the jurisdiction of …