Ukraine is preparing for a war in Donbas and deployed all combat-ready military units near the line of contact, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergei Naryshkin said

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Teresa Ribeiro said on Wednesday that she is concerned over Ukraine's practice of using sanctions that have a negative impact on media freedom and the work of journalists

There is a high degree of independence from foreign suppliers in the Russian energy sector, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Monday

Russia's financial monitoring service, Rosfinmonitoring, has put controversial journalist Arkady Babchenko on its list of extremist persons, according to its website as of Thursday

The niece of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, who was poisoned in the United Kingdom on March 4, 2018, told Sputnik that her uncle had called her twice in the past two months and that she had shared audio recordings of both calls with the Russian Investigative Committee