• The UK has frozen all of Russia Today accounts

    The Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today, Margarita Simonyan, tweeted on her Twitter page that all accounts of the multilingual Russia Today TV Company have been blocked in the UK.

    “All of our accounts have been blocked in the UK. The decision should be subject to review. Long live freedom of speech,” she tweeted.

    As previously reported, an investigation into the case against the Kremlin’s English language Russia Today TV Channel, which published inaccurate information about a gas production …

  • Experts: Lifting sanctions on Russia would bring serious consequences for the EU

    The sanctions introduced against Russia have given a very clear signal to the Russian Federation and the rest of the world that its violation of the rights and territorial integrity of other countries would lead to an appropriate response. Their removal would have serious implications for the EU, says an expert report of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, published with the support of Rasmussen Global.

    "Removing the sanctions without serious political concessions …

  • Poland could increase gas supplies to Ukraine three fold

    Poland can increase gas supplies to Ukraine three fold. This can happenen if the planned expansion of the gas pipelines with Ukraine takes place by the end of 2019. This will allow to increase transportation volumes of natural gas from the current 1.5 billion cubic meters to 5-6 billion cubic meters. Ukrinform reports, citing Piotr Naimsky, the Government Commissioner on Strategic Energy Infrastructure Issues of Poland.

    “There is a project on Polish-Ukrainian communications development. …

  • German politician warns of the danger of a conflict between Russia and the United States

    The Coordinator for Intersocietal Cooperation with Russia, Central Asia and the Eastern Partnership Countries, Gernot Erler, warned the United States and Russia against a possible military confrontation in Syria. "We are seeing a profound alienation between Russia and the West, and it is becoming more dangerous," the German politician said on Sunday, October 16, 2016 on the Berlin Direkt program on the socio-legal TV channel ZDF.

    As Erler said, there are serious discussions being carried out …

  • NATO has promised emergency assistance to Latvia in case of a military threat

    Should Latvia be threatened with military force, NATO's response force will be able to deploy to the country within two days, as stated by the head of the Operational Management of the NATO Force Integration Unit, Lieutenant Colonel Simon Badman.

    On Sunday, October 16, 2016 about 500 British soldiers, along with colleagues from other countries, arrived in Latvia to participate in the Silver Arrow exercises. These exercises will last until October 31, 2016. According to Badmen, the purpose of …