• Russia accuses Ukrainian Security Service of kidnapping of two Russian soldiers in the Crimea

    Interfax has reported that the Russian Defense Ministry has accused the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of illegally detaining two Russian servicemen, and then transporting them out of the Crimea.

    “At approximately 1pm on the 20th of November, employees of the SBU illegally detained two Russian soldiers, warrant officer Maxim Odintsov and junior sergeant of contract service Alexander Baranov, and transported them out of the Crimea to the Mykolaiv region,” the Russian agency said.

    The …

  • Lithuanian President: one has to be 'ready for anything' with Russia

    Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy is unpredictable and, therefore, everyone needs to be "ready for anything.” She made the statement on CNN in response to a question regarding her idea of Putin's current plans in foreign policy concerning the Baltic countries.

    "We can only guess what the plans of Putin are. I also have guesses, but it will probably be incorrect to share them publicly. As for Lithuania, I can only say that we …

  • Poroshenko: Kremlin’s purpose is the revision of the European course of Ukraine

    The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko said in his Day of Dignity and Freedom speech that Russia is attempting to destabilize the country in order to ensure early parliamentary elections, strengthen pro-Russian positions in the new Parliament and, in the end, cancel the European course of Ukraine.

    “The enemy not only attacks from the outside but also undermines our country from the inside. The Kremlin’s purpose includes constant internal destabilization, anarchy, early parliamentary …

  • Kudrin: Russia faces the same problems from the perestroika period of the USSR

    At the closing session of the All-Russia civil forum, the head of the Civil Initiatives Committee and the former minister of finance, Alexei Kudrin, compared the situation in modern Russia with the later period of development of the Soviet Union. According to him, Russia now faces the same risks of decentralization and regionalization of the country, Radio Svoboda reports.

    “The USSR collapsed not because of the weak army or the weak committee for state security. It collapsed because of an …

  • Naftogaz warns about a possible rise in price of gas transit by $4 billion per year

    Gazprom’s price for the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine may grow by 4 billion dollars a year should Ukraine succeed in the Stockholm arbitration, and be granted the amendment to the contract with Gazprom to adhere to European norms, as was posted on Facebook by the Commercial Director of Naftogaz of Ukraine, Yuriy Vitrenko, on November 19th.

    Reiterating Ukraine’s position prior to the hearings in Stockholm which were scheduled for November 21st, Vitrenko also indicated that Gazprom will …