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Stoltenberg: Russia is an unpredictable danger
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Russia is an “unpredictable” danger because “it is ready to use force to change its borders.”
Stoltenberg made these remarks during an interview with Bild, RBC-Ukraine reported.
“We face unpredictable risks and complex issues, including Russia, which is ready to use force to change its borders,” the Secretary General said.
He also stressed that NATO does need seek a confrontation with Russia.
The Alliance’s summit will be held in Warsaw next …
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Russian citizen convicted for reposting article about Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939
A resident of Perm has been ordered to pay a fine of 200,000 rubles for the "rehabilitation of Nazism."
In Russia, the court found a resident of Perm guilty of publically denying the decisions of the Nuremberg trials and the dissemination of false information about the activities of the USSR during the Second World War, Kommersant reports.
The court ordered a resident of Perm, Vladimir Luzgin, to pay a fine of 200,000 rubles on charges of rehabilitation of Nazism.
The grounds for the …
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Macierewicz hopes Russia will deoccupy all Ukrainian territory after NATO Summit
The Polish Minister of Defense, Anthony Macierewicz, expressed hope that the decisions made at the NATO summit will force Russia to withdraw from Ukrainian territories.
"During the NATO summit in Warsaw, a landmark decision will be made. Russia has for a long time thought that it has the right to challenge this decision. We have no reason to discuss something before it is adopted. Once the decision is made, we can start talking about how to keep peace in the world," Anthony Macierewicz said a …
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Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The EU's extension of sanctions is 'short-sightedness'
The extension of economic sanctions against Russia by the European Union is a short-sighted policy, as stated by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"The extension of the anti-Russian economic sanctions by the European Union until January 31, 2017, which are illegitimate from the standpoint of international law, is seen as a continuation of a short-sighted policy by Brussels," the Ministry’s statement reads.
The Ministry also stated that binding the sanctions to the implementation of the …
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Poroshenko says he has spoken with Putin twice over the last month
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that his communication with Russian President Vladimir Putin was focused on the release of hostages.
In the last month, the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, spoke twice on the telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Poroshenko said this in an interview with the Bulgarian TV channel bTV.
“Over the last month we had two phone conversations, and they were entirely devoted to freeing of the hostages. You know that dozens of Ukrainians …