Several police have been killed in clashes with militants in the Chechen city of Grozny. The officers were reported to have died when a late-night gun battle began at a checkpoint, reports GHN based on DW. Russian officials said on Thursday that gunmen traveling in several cars killed three police officers...
A building in Chechnya has been set alight hours after rebels killed three police officers. The North Caucasus republic still faces a Muslim insurgency more than two decades after a war between Moscow and separatists, reports GHN based on DW. More than six hours after fighting broke out in the Chechen...
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met with the new President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, at the headquarters of the Council in Brussels on Wednesday (3 December 2014). The meeting took place only a few days into Mr. Tusk's new mandate, reports GHN based on official site of NATO. Mr....
An anti-terrorist operation in Grozny, the capital of Russia's Republic of Chechnya, has entered the last phase. The head of the republic says up to seven law enforcement officers have been killed and seven militants have been eliminated, reports GHN based on RT. "The operation to destroy the...
With the explanation of special representative of NATO in Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai it is good that after the change of the Minister the course of the Ministry of Defense has not changed. As Appathurai explained after the meeting with the Minister of Defense that in the near future NATO...
Head of the Center of Political and Military Studies Dmytro Tymchuk wrote on Facebook. "Subdivisions of Russian-terrorist troops, who took part in the assault the Donetsk airport, are withdrawn deep into military dispositions to restore combat capability," he said. Tymchuk added that during...
The Verkhovna Rada has approved candidates for the posts of members of the Cabinet of Ministers. A total of 288 MPs on Tuesday evening supported the decision to vote for government resolution No. 1008 as a basis and as a whole. Thus, the Verkhovna Rada approved: Valeriy Voshchevsky as deputy prime...
The Ukrainian military says pro-Russian rebels have attacked its forces again at Donetsk airport despite a ceasefire deal earlier in the day, reports GHN based on BBC. The statement on Facebook said rebel shelling shattered the calm soon after both sides had ended their meeting. Earlier the rebels...
The Georgian Foreign Minister, Ms Tamar Beruchashvili held a series of bilateral meetings in the frames of the NATO Ministerial meeting. On the 2nd of December 2014, Ms Beruchashvili met her Bulgarian, Belgian, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Icelandic and Slovakian counterparts, reports GHN based on the Ministry...
The State Minister of Georgia on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, David Bakradze attended the reception dedicated to the Romania's National Day, reports GHN based on the Ministry of European and Euro Atlantic Integration. The State Minister addressed the audience and congratulated the hosts...
France's Socialist-led parliament has passed a symbolic vote to recognize Palestinian statehood, despite staunch objections from Israel. MPs in Britain and Spain have already passed similar motions, reports GHN based on RT. The proposal was passed with 339 votes in favor and 151 against, meaning...
Inhabited areas in Luhansk region, controlled by the Ukrainian power, again got under concentrated fire from heavy artillery of pro-Russian terrorists, reports GHN based on Ukrinform. Spokesman of the NSDC Information-Analytical Center Andriy Lysenko told a briefing. "The following settlements...
Working groups of the Joint Center for settlement of the situation along the boundary line within the frames of consultations are leading negotiations for delivery of Ukrainian humanitarian aid to the territory, seized by terrorists, reports GHN based on Ukrinform. Spokesman of the NSDC Information-Analytical...
Two Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and four more have been wounded in the area of the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, reports GHN based on Ukrinform. Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) information and analytical center spokesman Andriy Lysenko...
The Russian government has warned the economy will fall into recession next year as Western sanctions, in response to its role in eastern Ukraine, and falling oil prices begin to bite, reports GHN based on BBC. Russia's economic development ministry estimates the economy will contract by 0.8% next...
