The meeting of Russian and US presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump could take place at the G20 summit in Hamburg in July, said Dmitry Peskov, Press Secretary to the Russian president.

“If we don’t arrange an earlier summit, their meeting presumably could take place at the G20 summit in Hamburg in July, because this is the first place where their paths could cross,” Peskov said in a CNN interview.

Responding to a question on what the first meeting of the two leaders could be, the press …

Singer Yulia Samoylova will represent Russian in the singing contest Eurovision 2017, which will be held in the Ukrainian capital in May. This was reported on Sunday, March 12, on Channel One Russia. Samoylova will sing the song “Flame is Burning.” Because she is disabled, the singer is confined to a wheelchair.

Disabled performers have participated before in Eurovision. In 2015, Polish singer Monika Kuszynska, confined to a wheelchair like Samoylova, sang in Vienna. Before that, in 2008, …

The Russian military in the Crimea has deployed a “Murmansk-BN” radio-electronic warfare system which is capable of detecting, monitoring and disrupting communications between NATO ships as far as the Mediterranean Sea, Crimean media reports.

“The Murmansk-BN is a coastal radio-electronic warfare system which performs radio reconnaissance, intercepts enemy signals and jams them on the entire short-wave range for up to 5000 km. The system is mounted on seven trucks. The antenna system is …

Author: Dmytro Snegiryov, Head of Prava Sprava public initiative.

The main objective of the economic blockade is to deprive separatist leaders and the separatist administration of funding.  Their main source of revenue is the sale of coal to Ukraine. According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), 47% of revenue from coal sales was spent on financing armed groups in the separatist republics. In the last year the volume of coal mined in the separatist-held territories increased by 49%, …

According to the Head of the European Union Delegation to Ukraine, Hugues Mingarelli, local elections in the separatist-held areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions are possible if they include the participation of Ukrainian parties and Ukrainian mass media, which should cover the elections.

In his interview with UNIAN news agency, while answering a question concerning the statements of German Ambassador to Ukraine Ernst Reichel that elections in the Donbas are possible even in the presence …