Russia's military budget may shrink by around 10 percent in 2015, the chief executive of state-owned defense conglomerate Rostec said on Monday.

• Date: 24.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 24.02.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia has offered Iran its latest Antey-2500 missiles, the head of Russian state defense conglomerate Rostec said on Monday according to media reports, after a deal to supply less powerful S-300 missiles was dropped under Western pressure.

• Date: 23.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 23.02.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

In Russia, Vladimir Putin likes to portray himself as the saviour of the nation. In Europe and the United States he has come to be seen as a threat to the new world order.

• Date: 23.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 23.02.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Kiev accused pro-Russian rebels of opening fire with rockets and artillery at villages in southeastern Ukraine on Monday, all but burying a week-old European-brokered ceasefire deal.

• Date: 23.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 23.02.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The United States and its allies are discussing imposing more sanctions against Russia for undermining a European-brokered truce in eastern Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday.

• Date: 21.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 21.02.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Pro-Russian separatists are building up forces and weapons in Ukraine's south east and the Ukrainian military said on Saturday it was braced for the possibility of a rebel attack on the port city of Mariupol.

• Date: 21.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 21.02.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Kiev accused Russia on Friday of sending more tanks and troops into eastern Ukraine and said they were heading towards the rebel-held town of Novoazovsk on the southern coast, expanding their presence on what could be the next key battlefront.

• Date: 20.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 20.02.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The European Union and Britain "sleepwalked" into the Ukraine crisis, failing to grasp its exceptional nature and lacking the ability to read political shifts in Russia, British lawmakers said in a report on Friday.

• Date: 20.02.2015  |  Published on EGF: 20.02.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/