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Czech Republic wants to reduce the number of Russian diplomats
Czech Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček said that Prague would like to reduce the number of employees of the Russian Embassy so that it would correspond to the number of the Czech diplomats working in Russian, Novinky.cz reported.
“We are having a dialogue with the Russian side on the total number of diplomats in Prague,” said Petříček. He added that another topic of their talks with Russia is the need to reduce the 'excessive' number of cars registered by the Russian Embassy.
“We can only …
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Ukraine asks Budapest Memorandum signatories and EU for protection against Russia
During an emergency session of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has asked the signatory countries of the Budapest Memorandum and the EU for assistance in repelling Russian aggression.
“We turn to our partners according to the Budapest Memorandum, who have taken on themselves the obligation to protect the sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of our state; we turn to the European Union, including the participants of the …
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Ukraine expects to receive $2 billion from the IMF immediately after the new budget is adopted
Ukraine expects to receive 2 billion dollars from the International Monetary Fund immediately after the adoption of the bill on the state budget for 2019, as the representative of the President, Iryna Lutsenko told journalists on the sidelines of the Parliament session on Thursday.
"We are expecting about two billion dollars. And I think, once the budget is voted and signed, the IMF said this many times, there will be no delays with financing and providing the next tranche to Ukraine," she …
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NATO thanks Russia for 'assistance' during military exercises
During the NATO military exercises Trident Juncture 2018, Russia created obstacles to the operation of the GPS equipment. Nevertheless, Russia unwittingly helped the Alliance forces who performed military tasks to improve skills, stated NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller, Ukrinform reported.
“The representatives of the commanding staff of the exercises said that they expected such actions by Russia. They believe this helped to train better since Russia’s attempts to interfere …
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Media: coup in Montenegro was organized by a Russian intelligence agent
Russian citizen Vladimir Popov, who was placed on the international wanted list after organizing an attempted coup in Montenegro, has been identified as Vladimir Moiseev, an agent of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), as reported by the investigative group Bellingcat and The Insider on November 22.
The journalists’ investigation materials show that 38 year-old Moiseev, after graduating from the Tyumen High Military Engineering Command School, was trained between 2006 and 2009 in …
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Russia considers changing conditions for use of nuclear weapons
Participants in the round table of the Russian Federation Council’s Defense and Security Committee have advised the Russian Security Council to update its conditions for the use of nuclear weapons, Deutsche Welle reports, citing the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
“The interdepartmental commission of the Security Council of the Russian Federation on military security proposes that the following matters be considered: the drafting of a new version of ‘Basis of the Russian Federation’s policy …
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Ukraine calls for reforms to the UN Security Council
During the meeting of the UN General Assembly, the Counsellor of the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the UN, Eduard Fesko, stressed that the UN Security Council should be truly reformed because it cannot guarantee peace and security in the present conflicts.
"In its current form, the Council is ill-suited to effectively address Twenty-first Century challenges. While the United Nations procrastinates on Council reform, people are dying because the organ is simply incapable of helping them,” …
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Lithuania threatens to leave Interpol if Russian representative is elected as head of organization
Lithuania will be forced to consider the possibility of leaving Interpol if Alexander Prokopchuk, the representative of Russia, is elected as head of the organization, stated the resolution adopted by the Seimas of Lithuania.
88 deputies voted in support of the resolution, 0 against, and seven abstained.
“If Prokopchuk is elected head of Interpol, then Lithuania, together with other democratic countries, will have to immediately consider the possibility of leaving the organization,” the …
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Media: Belgian and Dutch farmers export pears to Russia despite sanctions
Fruit companies from the Netherlands and Belgium are supplying their products to Russia despite the sanctions imposed by the EU and Moscow’s counter sanctions, reported the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. The newspaper cites the information received during the negotiations between the suppliers of Belgian pears with Russian importers.
On August 7, 2014, Russia prohibited the importation of meat, fish, milk, vegetables and fruits from the EU. The President of Russia imposed a ban in the response …
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Monument to victims of Holodomor opened in Hungary
On Friday, November 16th Ukrainian ambassador to Hungary Liuba Nepop wrote on her Facebook page that in Hungary in the city of Szeged a monument to those who died during Holodomor (man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932) was opened.
Nepop noted that the deep symbolic meaning both Hungarian and Ukrainian representative took part the grand opening.
"For me personally it is deeply symbolic that in today 's momentous opening in Szeged remembering those who died in Holodomor in Ukraine 1932-33, …