The secretary of the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) of Ukraine, Oleksandr Turchynov, has said the Russian Armed Forces and pro-Russian militants in Donbas are preparing…
The return of the issue of Crimea's annexation to the EU agenda and the rather tough resolution of the European Parliament on the situation on the peninsula, apart from all the obvious…
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has suggested that Turkey should be involved in talks with Russia on the deoccupation of Crimea.
"The question is can Turkish representatives…
Gorshenin Institute vice-president Viktor Sokolov believes that by announcing the sale of state stocks, Russia seeks to create an additional motivation for the Western countries to…
President Petro Poroshenko said before meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel that it is not possible to secure implementation of the Minsk agreements only through unilateral moves…
US ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt has suggested that the number one priority for Ukraine and Ukrainian society in 2016 needs to be prevailing in the war against corruption and economic…
The Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, IT and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) has restricted Russian users' access to the website of the RBC-Ukraine news agency.…
The West is interested in lifting sanctions from Russia but does not have enough leverage to ensure the implementation of the Minsk agreements on a Donbas settlement, Gorshenin Institute's…
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on 27 January summoned the consul of the Russian embassy in Ukraine to hand him a note of protest over the systemic violations by the Russian judiciary…
Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn has said that Ukraine needs not more than 11-13bn cu.m. of imported gas in 2016, according to Interfax-Ukraine.
He added that this volume can…
Russia interprets the Budapest Memorandum, providing security assurances by its signatories relating to Ukraine's accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons…
Russia's permanent representative to the OSCE, Aleksandr Lukashevich, said on the air of Russian TV on 26 January that Ukrainian servicemen had allegedly been ordered to leave the…
Any out-of-court deal to restructure Ukraine's 3bn-dollar debt to Russia must deliver the same economic effect for Kiev, though its format would likely differ from last year's private…
Ukraine should not amend the constitution to give a "special status" to the occupied areas of Donbas because these changes were dictated by Russian President Vladimir Putin and are…
Ukraine has expanded the trade embargo on Russian goods by 70 commodity items, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said at a government meeting on 20 January.
"Today the Cabinet of Ministers…