• Russian Foreign Minister complains to US Secretary of State Pompeo about new sanctions

    On Friday, August 10, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a telephone conversation with the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in which he expressed his opposition to the new U.S. sanctions against Russia, reported the Russian Foreign Ministry.

    "The Russian side has categorically rejected Washington's announced new sanctions which were announced recently and which are connected to allegedly available information about Russia's involvement in the so-called ‘Skripals case’," the …

  • Ukraine detains Russian vessel for violating sanctions

    The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) identified a Russian vessel in the port of Kherson that belongs to a company included in the sanctions list of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), wrote the Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Borys Babin on his Facebook page.

    It is reported that on August 10, the Mechanic Pogodin vessel entered the Port of Kherson. According to the online global ship tracking service MarineTraffic, the …

  • Macron calls on Putin to find humanitarian solution to Sentsov case

    On Friday, during the phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke about the Ukrainian political prisoner Oleg Sentsov.

    Macron called on Putin to find a humanitarian solution to the case of the Ukrainian filmmaker, who was sentenced to imprisonment in Russia and has been on a hunger strike for three months, reported the Deutsche Welle.

    Macron expressed concern about the fact that Sentsov’s health has worsened critically, announced the Elysee Palace. …

  • Moscow blocks UN resolution on sanctions against Russian Agrosoyuz bank

    Moscow blocked the resolution submitted by the Unites States at the UN Security Council Committee requesting to impose sanctions against one individual and several legal entities, including Russian Commercial bank Agrosoyuz, for violating sanctions against North Korea.

    "The evidence provided by Americans in support of their proposal is absolutely unconvincing", - the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated on Friday.

    Russian Ministry accused the US Delegation of "pushy methods of work at the UN …

  • Russian steel producer EVRAZ states there are no plans to sell assets in the US

    Metallurgical and mining company EVRAZ is not planning on selling its assets in the USA, as they are of strategic interest, reported Interfax referring to the statement made by the president of the company Alexander Frolov.

    “We see an opportunity to further develop rails and large-diameter pipes, delivery of slabs is continuing, even despite the newly imposed tariffs. Therefore, we do not have any immediate plans to sell,” Frolov said.

    EVRAZ North America includes six production sites. They …

  • EU to shut doors of citizenship to wealthy Russians

    The mass sale of European citizenship to wealthy Russians and natives of former USSR states has caused dissatisfaction among the EU authorities.

    The practice of issuing “golden visas” and “golden passports” in exchange for investments in property must be stopped, said European Commissioner for Justice Věra Jourová.

    According to her, new rules restricting the inflow into the EU of migrants with suspicious sources of capital will be drafted and published in September.

    “In recent years, an …

  • New US sanctions may threaten Russia's nuclear industry

    The new USA sanctions bill imposes restrictions on the importation of low-enriched uranium from Russia until 2031 which might affect the Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom.

    The newspaper Kommersant reports that this measure may affect the key market of Rosatom. In 2017, Rosatom's Techsnabexport (TENEX), a subsidiary that works mostly with nuclear power plants, received more than 40% of its revenue from exports of low-enriched uranium to the United States.

    Earlier, the USA …

  • Ukraine begins industrial production of large caliber ammunition

    On Thursday, August 9, the industrial production of large caliber artillery shells was launched at the Artem plant in Kyiv.

    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Turchynov, Minister of Defense Stepan Poltorak and First Vice Prime Minister Stepan Kubiv all took part in the opening ceremony of the new production line.

    "Before the war, in 2012 to 2013, munitions disposal was an issue and, unfortunately, the war disposed of …

  • Ukrainian President asks diplomats to prepare new UN resolution on Crimea

    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko asked Ukrainian diplomats to prepare a new resolution on the Crimea for the next session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in order to stop any speculation about the status of the peninsula, the head of the state wrote on his Facebook page.

     “Ukraine continues the struggle for the de-occupation of the Crimea, for the rights and freedom of the Crimean Tatar people. I have asked diplomats to prepare a new resolution on the Crimea for for the next session of …

  • Sentsov‘s lawyer delivers to Russian authorities his mother's plea for his pardon

    The lawyer of the Ukrainian political prisoner Oleh Sentsov, Dmitry Dinze, delivered to the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District territory pardon commission Sentovov mother’s petition to pardon her son, Hromadske  reports with reference to Sentsov's sister Natalia Kaplan.

    According to Kaplan, at first, the petition to pardon Sentsov was sent to the Presidential Administration of Russia who did not respond at all, though they promised to consider it.

    At the same time, Kaplan doubts the …