Russia wants to offer US to join their efforts in the operation to retake Raqqa which is considered a Syrian capital of the so-called Islamic State, as reported by the Russian newspaper Izvestia.

The United States has already stated its plans to block Raqqa even before Mosul is fully freed from ISIS. On October 25, the United States Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, said that the US together with the Alliance partners are preparing the operation to block Raqqa. 

After the American …

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said that Russia’s military activity in the Baltic Sea is a threat to not only the Baltic States, but to Western European countries as well, as reported by Delfi.

While commenting on the presence of the Russian Navy in the Baltic Sea and the recent deployment of nuclear-capable Iskander missile systems to Kaliningrad, Grybauskaitė said "There is no doubt that it is not directed just against the Baltic States, but against European capitals. This …

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary summoned the Russian Ambassador due to the format of the Russian television coverage of the anniversary of the 1956 uprising, the Associated Press reports.

Hungary has expressed dissatisfaction with the way the Russian state media described the anti-Communist revolution of 1956. In particular, in one of the TV programs, the revolt was described as a "massacre" and the first "color revolution." In the program, it was reported that the events in Hungary …