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Moscow calls on Montenegro to hold referendum on joining NATO
Moscow notes that the Montenegrin society is deeply divided on the issue of joining NATO and calls for a referendum on joining the North Atlantic Alliance, Russian Foreign Ministry's official spokesperson Maria Zakharova told at a briefing on Wednesday, Russian news agency TASS has reported. "The situation in...
Donbas militants continue shelling, Krasnohorivka under 82mm mortar fire
Russian-backed illegal armed groups continued provocative shelling of the Ukrainian positions in the Donbas conflict zone overnight, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook early Monday. In particular, "at night, mercenaries from pro-Russian hybrid gangs used 82mm mortars, which are banned...
New Zealand picks possible new flag design
New Zealanders have chosen a new flag design that could replace their current flag featuring the British Union Jack, according to NHK World News. The country's election commission on Tuesday announced the result of the first part of a two-phase national referendum, the report says. The winning design was chosen from five...
Week’s Milestones. Ambiguous Biden, annoying Barna, and BPP teambuilding
U.S. Vice President encouraged the Ukrainian authorities to build a successful country. MP Oleh Barna decided not limit himself with collecting signatures for the dismissal of PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk, deciding to drag him out of the parliament’s podium during speech. The winners of the local elections held party conferences....
Ukraine’s PM says unity with President, Rada preserved
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that despite the enemy's hopes and all the difficuties, the PM, the President and the Rada preserved unity, and the reforms would be prolonged, according to the Cabinet's press service. "Our enemies hoped that the new Ukrainian government would not be able to overcome...
Poroshenko declares 2016 year of remembrance of liquidators, victims of Chernobyl disaster
President Petro Poroshenko declared 2016 the year of remembrance of liquidators and victims of Chernobyl disaster, as a respective Decree was signed on December 14, according to the president's press service. The Government was instructed to conduct commemorative events in Kyiv on April 26, 2016, according to the report....
Poll: Most Russians want to see Ukraine independent
More than half of Russians, or 59%, believe that it would be more beneficial for Russia if Ukraine was an independent state, having good-neighborly and mutually beneficial relations with Russia, according to the findings of a survey by the Levada Center, an independent Russian polling and sociological research organization. It...
Merkel wants to reduce refugee arrivals in Germany
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday she wanted to "drastically decrease" the number of refugees coming to Germany, signaling a compromise to critics of her open-door policy from within her conservatives on the eve of a party congress, according to Reuters. Merkel has resisted pressure from allies within her...
Photos Reveal Mexico’s Colorful Virgin Mary Festival
For two millennia, the Virgin Mary has been one of the world’s most venerated women. She is particularly revered in Mexico; the country's patron saint is Our Lady of Guadalupe, a form of the Virgin that is said to have appeared to an indigenous man in what is now Mexico City in 1531. That storied event is commemorated...
At least 20 dead in Pakistan clothes market blast
At least 20 people were killed and dozens others wounded on Sunday in a blast at a used clothes market in Kurram Agency's Parachinar area, Pakistan, according to Pakistan's English-language newspaper Dawn. Hospital sources told DawnNews that 55 people were injured as a result of the blast out of which more than 15...
Militants planning to conduct conscription in Donbas – Ukraine intel
The combined-Russian separatist forces are planning to conduct conscription in the occupied territories of Donbas in spring of 2016, according to the Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. "Because of bad conditions of service in Russian occupation troops, it is worsened the manning issue. Considering...
The BIGGEST and cozy prison in the world is near St. Petersburg
Near St. Petersburg is close to completion of preparations for a large-scale move in the detention facility, which will replace the well-known St. Petersburg "Crosses". It is the largest in Russia and, according to the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the world. After moving to the old "cross" will...
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