The ghost of "Gazprom" as a virtual operator on the Slovak-Ukrainian GTS will no longer interfere with the reasonable transit of gas to one and the other side.

US are not interested in the change of names, but in the change of the system as such.

Employees of the Russian TV channel LifeNews were deported from Azerbaijan.

National Armed Forces (NAF) of Latvia spotted a Russian submarine near the border of the country, reports TASS with reference to the NAF.

NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow categorically denied the opportunity to connive with Russia on the issue of Ukraine for the joint fight against terrorism. He stated this on Thursday, 24 March, during his visit to Lithuania, reports Deutsche Welle.

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The test on the site was attended by NSDC Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov, who is directly coordinating the implementation of national missile programs.

Samantha Power, the US Permanent Representative to the UN, urged the countries that are represented in the organization, to put pressure on Russia to force it to comply with obligations under the Minsk agreements in full.

The Russian government has set a minimum living level per capita for the 4th quarter of 2015 in the amount of 9452 roubles. The corresponding document was published on the official web portal of legal information.

EU sanctions against Russian and Ukrainian citizens, who in Brussels are held responsible for undermining the territorial integrity of Ukraine, may be formally extended on Thursday without debate.

Despite the aggressive policy of the neighbouring Russia against Turkey, Belarus has own plans regarding this State - exclusively peaceful and friendly. In so much, that our country has decided to allocate 300 hectares of our land for Turkish businessmen to develop the construction of industrial facilities, reports the Turkish news agency Anadolu.

Militants receive full logistical support from the RF, the ministry stressed.

Russia, as a signatory of the Minsk agreements, has not fulfilled any of its obligations undertaken accordingly, stated the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

The former US Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer called the statement of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov regarding the Budapest Memorandum, "falsehood".

Military inspectors of Latvia and Lithuania together with their colleagues from Italy, from Monday to Friday this week, are checking the Nizhny Novgorod and Ivanovo regions of the Russian Federation, informs the BNS agency.

Travelling around Europe without passport control will be suspended for two years, until Brussels figure out how to stop the influx of immigrants into the EU, reported Zn.ua with reference to TheTimes.

Canada abolished visas for Ukrainians. Such decision was supported by a unanimous vote in the government together with the opposition. Currently, the authorities are working on the technical details, and in the near future visa-free regime between the two countries will be introduced.

For effective complex defence of Latvia, the establishment of a permanent division of the National Armed Forces has started in Latgale, reported the official website of the Ministry of Defence.

On 13 January a concert "Together to the victory" was held in Lithuania, where the audience decided to support Ukraine's defence and donated 110 thousand Euros.

Alexander Lukashenko on 9 January signed a decree № 8 "On the establishment of visa-free entry and exit of foreign nationals." The document establishes visa-free entry to Belarus for a period not exceeding 5 days at the entrance through the checkpoint "National Airport Minsk" for citizens of 80 countries, - reported the press service of the President of Belarus.