According to Svetlana Ageyeva, the mother of the Russian soldier detained in the Donbass, "it will be a great life lesson for [her son]" if Poroshenko pardons him. Ageyev's mother also said in her video message to Poroshenko that she did not know how her son was in the Donbas. According to Ageyeva, only contract service was discussed with the family.

"I myself am still in the dark; I still cannot understand how it happened….who influenced my child so much, that he found himself in those places …

The online publication Hromadske published the text of the bill “on the characteristics of state policy on the restoration of state sovereignty over the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces of Ukraine”.

Russia is called the aggressor for the first time in the document which will bring an end to the anti-terrorist operation.

“The Russian Federation is carrying out armed aggression against Ukraine and the temporary occupation of parts of its territory by means …

A bill for Russia to leave the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been introduced in the State Duma.

The initiative was put forward by a group of MPs from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) who said that Russia’s membership in the WTO does not bring the country any major benefit. In particular, they pointed out that the WTO obliges each country to align the tariffs on natural monopolies in comparison to other member states, despite the fact that Russia uses its own energy …

Israel, Russia and the U.S. will discuss the Syrian issue in Vienna. Representatives of these countries will meet and clarify details concerning the de-escalation zone in southwest Syria, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in an interview with the newspaper Kommersant.

“We will support any attempts to de-escalate the situation both in the whole territory of Syria and in the southwest of the country. Of course, it is too early to give a more detailed assessment, because at this …

In the first half of 2017, net capital outflow from Russia increased 1.7-fold to $14.7 billion, compared to $8.6 billion during the same period in 2016, as indicated in the data published on the official website of the Bank of Russia.

Analysts of the Central Bank explained that this trend is caused by activity in the banking sector connected to increases in residential customer accounts in early 2017, as well as the banks’ repayment of external debt obligations.

"Other sectors that saw some …