• Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas: The annexation of Crimea violated the peaceful life of the Crimean Tatars

    After the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula, "peaceful life of the Crimean Tatars in their homeland has been violated," the Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas, Loreta Graužinienė, said during the meeting of the Coordination Council of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars, which started on April 11 in Vilnius (Lithuania), Krym.Realii reported, with reference to the press service of the Commissioner of the President of Ukraine on the Crimean Tatar Affairs, Mustafa Dzhemilev.

    According to …

  • Transdniestria begins investigation into economic crisis

    The Parliament of Transdniestria announced the establishment of a Commission for Deputy Investigation of the reasons of the currency crisis in the unrecognized republic. The Parliamentary press-service informed TASS that in the last few days, a crisis started in the domestic exchange market of Transdniestria.

    According to the data of the central bank, March 1st currency reserves in amounted to the equivalent of $12.35 million. In February it was at $18.75 million and in December it equaled $32. …

  • G7: Russia should be more involved in the peace process in the Donbas

    The foreign ministers of G7 countries recently discussed the situation in Ukraine and called upon Moscow to become more involved in the peace process by influencing pro-Russian separatists in the Donbas.

    On April 10th to 11th, the G7 countries’ ministers of foreign affairs met in Hiroshima, Japan. Representatives of Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Canada, USA, France and Japan discussed global terrorism problems, the migration crisis, the issue of the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and …

  • Russia delivers first S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran

    The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that the first S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems were delivered to Iran, as reported by Kommersant citing a statement made by the Press Secretary of the Iranian MFA, Hossein Jaberi Ansari. Iranian television showed footage of the transportation of the missile systems on eight heavy tractors with platforms. Rosoboronexport (state intermediary agency for Russia's exports/imports of defense-related and dual use products, technologies and services) …

  • Azerbaijan says Armenian-backed forces violated the ceasefire 125 times in one day

    During the last 24 hours, the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh was violated 125 times. The use of heavy machine guns was reported. The Trend publication disclosed this, quoting the statement of the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan.

    Baku clarified that the Armed Forces of the Republic answered the enemy with 125 response fire strikes.

    At the same time, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) reported that the ceasefire …