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Media: European Commission to consider the state of Kyiv’s cooperation with International Monetary Fund before providing further assistance
The European Commission plans to take into account a variety of factors in deciding on a new program of macro-financial assistance for Ukraine, including the status of the country’s program of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund in particular, as noted in a written response by the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine to a request by Evropeyskaya Pravda news outlet.
The statement notes that European Commission must give the Ukrainian authorities' request a positive …
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Saakashvili calls for a nationwide rally on March 18 to demand resignation of Ukraine's President
A nationwide rally for the resignation of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and other senior representatives of the executive power will take place on March 18, the former Governor of the Odessa region and the Head of Movement of New Forces (Rukh Novykh Syl) Party, Mikheil Saakashvili stated on his Facebook page.
"I propose an all-Ukrainian peaceful march demanding the resignation of Poroshenko, [Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs] Avakov, and [Prosecutor General of Ukraine] Lutsenko to …
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Putin demands that Washington provide evidence of Russia's interference in US elections
The US authorities must provide Russia with information that justifies its accusations against thirteen Russian nationals led by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin that they unsuccessfully attempted to influence the results of the presidential elections in the United States, stated Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with NBC.
"I first have to look at what they did. Give us the materials. Give us information. With all due respect to you personally, with all due respect to the Congress, …
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US Ambassador to Ukraine: Washington will not recognize Russian presidential elections in Crimea
US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch has said that Washington will not recognize the Russian Presidential elections planned in the annexed Crimea. She said this on air during a broadcast of Ukrainian television channel Pryamoi.
"I think [it will be the same] as with all the elections in the Crimea…the way we treated these elections in the past is that we did not recognize them," Yovanovitch said.
The Russian presidential elections are scheduled for March 18, 2018 - the anniversary of …
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'American analyst' who claimed on Russian TV that US has lost arms race turns out to be a fake
The “American analyst” who said on Russian TV that the US has lost the arms race turned out to be a “singing poet” and soap vendor, The Insider news outlet reports.
In a program on the Russian TV channel NTV, one of the stories was devoted to the “violent reaction in the West” elicited by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address to the Federal Assembly. According to NTV, the reason for the fuss is that “the US was absolutely convinced that it was ahead of the rest of the planet in the …
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Russian media: Russia completes testing of nuclear engine for its new weapons
Russia has completed the testing of a portable nuclear propulsion system for cruise missiles and autonomous underwater vehicles, RIA Novosti reported with reference to an official source in the Russian military.
The source stated that such technology has only been developed and implemented in Russia.
According to the source, in recent years Moscow has gone to special efforts to send the West “signals” that the West’s attempts to neutralize Russia’s nuclear potential through anti-missile …
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US representative for Ukraine Volker: DPR and LPR must be disbanded
US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker said that the occupation establishments that Russia has created in the Donbas, the DPR and LPR, must be dismantled, because they do not comply with Ukraine’s constitution.
He made a statement to this effect during a panel discussion at the Hudson Institute analytic center, which was broadcast on the institute’s website.
“The so-called Luhansk People’s Republic and Donetsk People’s Republic are establishments created by Russia …
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US-led coalition strikes Assad’s allies again near Deir ez-Zor
According to the agency Euphrates Post, units of Fatemiyoun and Zainebiyoun (Afghan and Pakistani Shia military formations fighting on the side of government troops in Syria and supported by Iran) have attempted to cross to the eastern bank the Euphrates River in the area of Al-Muhasan, but were attacked by the US-led coalition air force. The militants retreated to the airfield near Deir ez-Zor and from there tried to cross again to the other bank of the river through a pontoon bridge erected …
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Gazprom not able to suspend gas transit through Ukraine yet
Despite its statement about the termination of all contracts with Ukraine, Gazprom will not suspend gas transit through Ukraine in the near future, according to a statement made by Gazprom’s Spokesperson, Sergey Kupriyanov, reports RBC news agency.
“If it was any other way, we would say that openly,” said Kupriyanov when asked if the beginning of the Gazprom-Naftogaz contract termination procedure at the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) would bring an immediate …
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Ukraine and Moldova call on European countries to stop Nord Stream-2 pipeline
The Speakers of the Parliaments of Ukraine and Moldova signed an open letter to the Chairmen of the Parliaments of the European countries calling the Nord Stream-2 pipeline “a destabilizing factor”, as reported by the press service of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. In particular, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Andriy Parubiy, and the speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, Andrian Candu, recognized the Nord Stream-2 as Russia’s attempt to weaken Ukraine and Moldova.
"In this …