The new Prosecutor General of Ukraine must ensure the General Prosecutor’s Office’s (GPO) independence from political influence and pressure, according to a statement made by the head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine, Ambassador Jan Tombinski."I noted that today, the Verkhovna Rada has accepted the resignation of the Prosecutor General. This decision provides an opportunity for a new start in the General Prosecutor’s office," he said.Tombinski expressed his hope that Shokin’s successor will be …

NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, General Philip Breedlove, stated that the preliminary deployment of NATO troops in Estonia should be international and not consist of only soldiers from the United States Forces.

“The work to ensure that NATO will be able to respond to threats from the east and south is in progress. The plan on strengthening NATO’s presence in the Baltic States will be adopted at the NATO Summit in July,” Breedlove stated in his interview to the journalists on Tuesday in …

The Verkhovna Rada adopted a law that forbids showing any Russian films released after 1 January 2014 without exception.

Amendments to "The Motion Picture Law" were adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on Wednesday, March 29th. The text of the amendments was published on the Ukrainian Parliament website. 237 Parliamentarians voted in favor of these amendments. The law prohibits the showing of films produced after 1 August 1991, in which positive images of an aggressor nation, its officials or its …

The Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science held a meeting on the development and protection of the Crimean Tatar language, during which Mustafa Dzhemilev, the Commissioner of the President of Ukraine on Affairs of the Crimean Tatar People, proposed adopting the Latin alphabet for the Crimean Tatar language, Krym.Realii reported. The Cyrillic alphabet is currently used.

The meeting was aimed at “the safeguarding and development of the Crimean Tatar people as indigenous people of Ukraine,” …

The delegation of the Antonov State Company of Ukraine is participating in DefExpo-2016, the Land, Naval and Internal Homeland Security Systems Exhibition, in Goa, India, the company said in a statement. As noted in the statement, the promising projects of the Antonov State Company can become the basis of further development of fruitful cooperation between Ukraine and India in the aviation industry.

"The Antonov State Company proposes the latest multi-purpose An-132 transport aircraft with …

The publication wrote that Timchenko had lost about four billion dollars and Rotenberg, about three billion.

During the two years that sanctions have been imposed by the EU and the U.S. against Russia due to the war against Ukraine, friends of President Vladimir Putin have lost billions of dollars.

Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita reported this issue, adding that Gennady Timchenko, who is “number one” in all the “blacklists” of the West is the most affected by the economic pressure. Before the …

The Republic of Moldova reaffirms its position on the withdrawal of Russian troops and weapons from Transnistria. This was announced during the Moldovan-Russian consultations that took place in Chișinău, the news agency UKRINFORM reported.

The head of the Moldovan delegation, Darii Lillian, who is the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, said that Moldova insists on the replacement of the Russian peacekeepers in the security zone on the Dniester by the mission of the …

The export contracts of Russian weapons accounts to more than $54 billion  the Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation, Anatoly Punchuk, said in an interview with the news agency RIA Novosti. "As for the orders portfolio, today it is over $54 billion," Punchuk said.

As reported, after the operation in Syria, Russia received many requests to sell military equipment. 

Algeria intends to buy 12 Su-34 frontline bombers and 10 Su-35C. …