The authorities of the United States support the reform efforts of Mikheil Saakashvili and his team in Odessa region.

On July 1 the DPR announced unilateral demilitarisation of Shirokino. As of Saturday, all the DPR self-defence forces left the village, which was confirmed at the OSCE

If you have yet to listen to last Sunday’s Behind the Headlines interview with James and JoAnne Moriarty on Libya, I urge you to do so. While Sott.net carried numerous reports on the U.S.-sponsored destruction of Libya, the Moriartys’ first-hand account not only reveals new details you’ve probably not heard anywhere else; it paints a picture that brings the stark reality home in a way that just reading reports and analyses cannot. The reality of what happened (and is still happening) in Libya is worse than we can possibly imagine.

Two thousand members of a new patrol in Kiev’s police force took their oaths of office in a ceremony attended top Ukrainian politicians and US ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt. They also sported uniforms and cars that quickly caught with social media users.

The absence of the court ruling calls into question the legal basis for the deportation of a Russian journalist from Ukraine, says a formal letter of Russia’s Human Rights Ombudsperson Ella Pamfilova addressed to her Ukrainian counterpart Valeriya Lutkovskaya.

The inclusion of new members to the Normandy format of talks on resolving the Ukrainian crisis is not reasonable, a senior European diplomatic source told Sputnik.

This time the session will work without the Russian delegation

According to a senior European diplomatic source, EU would look into the results of a new referendum on Crimea's breaking away from Ukraine and joining Russia, if it met all international standards and involved representatives of the OSCE.

Kiev mayor Vitaliy Klichko put on formal cap in time of oath of the national police of Ukraine.

The president of Ukraine Petr Poroshenko and the Prime Arseniy Yatsenyuk started laughing behind his back.

The BBC has called its use of the term "civil war" appropriate in relation to the events in eastern Ukraine's Donbass region; this came in response to a related complaint by Ukrainian journalist Olexander Severyn.

Russia understands, of course, that that decision (to deny entry visas to six members of the Russian delegation) was made after all-round analysis, Timo Soini said