Russia & CIS

A Russian shipyard is currently building the first hydrofoil vessels since the Soviet era, a source in the shipbuilding industry told RIA Novosti Tuesday.

The Verkhovna Rada’s decision to suspend foreign debt payments is illegitimate, adviser of the Russian President Sergey Glazyev said.

The Western policy towards Russia is not always reasonable. Western countries have always talked about the intensification and extension of sanctions, and rarely discussed their possible easing, once some progress in Ukraine is achieved, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said.

On May 16, Kiev detained two Russian nationals during clashes in the Donbass region. The two men were wounded and then captured by Ukrainian law enforcement officers.

Russia and Belarus will jointly develop a new short-range anti-aircraft missile complex, it was announced on Tuesday.

Russia is now a ruling world power, despite a relatively modest population, but she has the right allies; not Estonia or Portugal, but Brazil, South Africa and China again, which is using all her millenary wisdom and her current fantastic soft power to get rid us from the American dollar, a piece of crap since the end of the gold standard in 1971

All attempts by Western countries to put political and economic pressure on Russia have failed. If anything, they have helped Vladimir Putin to become an even more popular leader, Boulevard Voltaire said.

Russia is an important economic partner of Ukraine and no one is interested in the reduction of investment and trade flows between the countries, Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko said.

Over the last five years, there have been seven Proton carrier rocket failures. The latest took place on May 16, when a Proton-M was to deliver cargo to the ISS, but after reaching space lost its telemetry contact with Earth and began spinning out of control, burning up in the atmosphere a few days later after falling from an uncontrollable orbit.

Russia is working on its unitary space system of early warning missile strikes according to the schedule.

Eight cases were launched after exposing embezzlement and abuse of office in one of Russia's leading space industry companies.

Earlier, Chechen administration head Magomed Daudov suggested making polygamy legal in Russia as it was once practiced in the past in some of the Caucasus regions.

The Russian Defense Ministry on Monday demanded that Ukraine stop the torture and release two of its nationals who were allegedly captured Sunday in southeastern Ukraine.

The service will provide companies and financial institutions with all necessary information on Russian enterprises impacted by sanctions.

At the same time, there is still "a large group" of states, which call for the lifting of sanctions, chairman of the European Council Donald Tusk said.

Russia may permit the delivery of meat and cheese from Iran, paving the way for a barter deal to exchange grain for dairy, fish and meat products.

Russian real estate tycoon Sergei Polonsky, who was deported from Cambodia to Russia Sunday, was officially charged with fraud and questioned Monday, a spokeswoman for the Russian Interior Ministry said.

A proposal, made by Russia, may undermine the unity of the EU position on climate issues. The Russian proposal is less strict and meets expectations of the eastern Europeans.

On Saturday, a planned correction of the ISS orbit could not be carried out after the Progress M-26M's engines failed to start on time. In an unrelated incident just hours later, an emergency situation occurred with the Proton-M rocket carrying a Mexican satellite shortly after its launch. The satellite did not detach and was declared lost.