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Terror In St Petersburg, At Least 10 Dead, Fifty Injured.
Ruling Party In Armenia Leads Parliamentary Vote.
Moldova’s Prime Minister left no doubt recently that a closure integration with Europe is the only path he sees for the former Soviet Republic. Pavel Filip made the comments while on in Brussels this week for talks on reforms Moldova agreed to implement as part of a trade and political…
The recent protests against Russian Prime Minister Medvedev’s alleged corruption, exposed by Putin critic, Alexei Navalny, caused Moscow to further tighten controls on freedom of information and dissemination methods by social media of anti-government activities. The measures seem to have worked as a follow-on protest in Triumfalnaya Square in Moscow…
The port city of Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov in Ukraine, has been at the forefront of the conflict in the Donbass region between government troops and pro-Russian separatists since the conflict began in 2014. The historic area was controlled by the rebels for some time and then retaken…
Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov pointed to the similarity of the approaches of Russian and US leaders Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump to international relations, RIA Novosti reported. “They both insist on the priority of national interests and they are well aware that it is in their national…
The recent anti-corruption protests against the Russian government, and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in particular, have obviously gotten the Kremlin’s attention. Today Russia opened a criminal case against those calling for additional protests in Moscow in the coming days. Investigators said the person calling for the protests online was unidentified…
The Defense Ministry of Ukraine and Canada plan to sign a cooperation agreement next week. The agreement aims to give the Ukrainian side access to the Canadian arms market, Ukrinform news agency reported citing representatives of the defense departments of the two countries. Earlier, Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada…
Anti-Russian Sanctions Have Made Putin Stronger – Former NATO Secretary General.