Contents tagged with France
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France provides Ukraine with a $64 million loan to upgrade water supply system in Mariupol
On Tuesday, Ukraine signed a contract with France for a line of credit to complete the project of providing water in Mariupol.
The loan in the amount of 64 million euros is allocated for 30 years with a 10-year grace period. The Ukrainian government’s press service indicated that the rate would be 0.08% per annum.
The water that is supplied to apartments in Mariupol comes from the Northern Donetsk river, which crosses the line of demarcation several times. Due to the conflict in the Donetsk …
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Lavrov: Putin agreed to allow representatives of Germany and France to monitor the Kerch Strait
Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s request to send German and French observers to the Kerch Strait, stated Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
"Chancellor Angela Merkel asked the President to allow German specialists to come to the region of the Kerch Strait over a month ago and to see how the navigation is done, taking into account that safety regulations should be observed... and President Putin agreed immediately,” …
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France plans to continue military presence in Syria and Iraq in 2019
Speaking at a military base near Toulouse on Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron said that French troops will continue to take part in the activities of the international coalition in Syria and Iraq despite the announced withdrawal of the US troops.
The president addressed his speech being broadcast by his press service to military, “The retreat from Syria announced by our American friends cannot make us deviate from our strategic objective: eradicating Daesh, freeing all territories …
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Medical humanitarian aid from France arrives in Donbas
The United Force operation press service reported that humanitarian medical supplies worth over UAH 2.1 million or approximately $77,777, sent from France, will be received by military and civilian medical institutions in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
“On January 3rd, 2019, according to planned activities, humanitarian cargo for medical purposes in the amount of more than 2.1 million UAH arrived from France. After distributing the orthoses, medical furniture and equipment, medical clothes …
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France extradites former Russian regional finance minister
France has extradited Alexey Kuznetsov, former finance minister of Russia’s Moscow Oblast, to Russia. In Russia, the former official faces charges of fraud, embezzlement, and money laundering. Moscow has been pushing for his extradition since 2013, the BBC Russian service reports.
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office announced on Thursday that the extradition had taken place.
“Today, accompanied by personnel from the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Russian bureau of Interpol, …
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Macron and Putin discuss Kerch Strait incident
French President Emmanuel Macron and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in Ukraine and the Kerch crisis in a phone call, the official Kremlin website reports.
Putin told the press service that he and Macron had continued the “exchange of opinions” on the topic, but did not provide any further details on the discussion.
The two presidents also considered the problems of the Syrian situation in detail.
According to a communique from the Élysée Palace, Macron …
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France to loan 64 million euro to Ukraine to upgrade drinking water supply system in Mariupol
Ukraine plans to sign a loan agreement with France for the amount of 64 million euro to provide Mariupol with drinking water. On Thursday, the Cabinet of Ministers met and approved the draft contract with the French Government and authorized the Minister for Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons of Ukraine, Vadym Chernysh to sign it. The project includes the development of a general plan to improve Mariupol’s water supply and wastewater disposal systems by 2040. 70% of the …
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Frenchman brandishing DPR flag in Paris has Russian citizenship
Xavier Moro, the man who waved a DPR flag during Yellow Jacket protests in Paris, has double citizenship – French and Russian. He admitted to this in a broadcast of the propaganda program 60 Minutes on the TV channel Russia 1.
In saying so, he was trying to refute the claims that the riots in France had been supposedly organized by Russia.
“The Yellow Jackets movement in France is anti-maidan, it is completely spontaneous, autonomous. Neither Trump, nor the State Department, nor Lavrov came …
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Media: France looking into Russia’s involvement in the organization of ‘Yellow vest’ protests
Interfax-Ukraine quoting an issue of “Eco” reports that the French government is researching multiple messages by the media about Russia’s involvement in organizing protests by the “Yellow vest,” however, no conclusions have been made yet.
Eco notes that this issue is being dealt with by the Secretariat-General for National Defense and Security, which is reporting to the Prime Minister, Edouard Phillipe.
The investigation began due to reports of numerous fake accounts in social networks that …
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Ukrainian Security Service accuses Russia of organizing protests in France
Russian intelligence may have organized the protests in France, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said in a post on Facebook.
As evidence, the SBU cites a photograph from Paris showing two men in yellow jackets (a defining characteristic of protesters against the increase in petrol tax) holding the flag of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic. According to the SBU, the people in the photo are none other than Sorlin Fabris, a member of the Katehon think tank (which is chaired by the …