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Shoygu: Russia to begin mass production of combat robots
At the conference Russia is a country of opportunities, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu announced that Russia is planning to begin mass production of combat robots in 2018, Kommersant news outlet reports.
"We began to create combat robots. Their government and military tests are coming to an end and I hope that this year we will begin the mass production," Shoygu said.
He also talked about the completion of work on demining robotics equipment. "Today, such robots are already mass- …
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Kyiv prohibits Russians from voting in Ukrainian territory
Kyiv has decided to prohibit Russians, except for diplomats, to vote in Ukraine since Moscow “continuously violates international treaties,” as stated by Member of the board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and member of Ukrainian Parliament Anton Herashchenko.
“In the opinion of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this decision is consistent with international law. Diplomats’ right to vote is covered by the international convention”, — he noted. Herashchenko added that if Russian citizens …
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Russia claims its submarines reached the American shores unnoticed during recent exercises
The commander of the nuclear submarine division, Captain Sergeant Sergei Starshinov, spoke to journalists about the operation, during which the Russian nuclear submarines of Project 971 Shchuka-B reached the US bases, reports Zvezda, the official newspaper of the Russian Ministry of Defense. According to Starshinov, the submarines "established themselves in these areas of the ocean" and, having accomplished the tasks, returned home unnoticed.
According to Zvezda, the Russian submarines reached …
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Lavrov: US wants to neutralize Russia’s nuclear potential
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated in an interview with Vietnamese and Japanese media that the United States aims to devalue Russia’s strategic nuclear potential, and that this is supported by the US’ deployment of global missile defense system, RIA Novosti reports.
“Everything that has been done by our US colleagues made us believe that the global system of missile defense was created not to confront threats emanating from Iran and North Korea, but to encircle Russia from all …
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British foreign secretary refuses to shake hands with Russian ambassador after Skripal poisoning
During his recent meeting with Russian Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Boris Johnson refused to shake hands with him in compliance with the "British protocol," RIA Novosti reports.
"There is certain British protocol for the cases when an ambassador is summoned to the Foreign Office. He [Johnson] sure showed in every way his concern about the Russian policy. He had to tell me unpleasant things and thus believed that the ambassador did not …
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Germany: Assassination attempt on Skripal should be investigated in UN
The former German Foreign Minister, Sigmar Gabriel, who had just left his post, proposed for an investigation into the circumstances of the assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal, to be conducted by an international group of experts, as he indicated on Thursday, March 15th, at an official ceremony of the German-Russian Forum, dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the creation of this non-governmental organization.
According to the former Foreign Minister of Germany, international experts …
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NATO Secretary-General puts poisoning of ex-spy in Britain on par with Russian aggression in Ukraine
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has sharply condemned the use of nerve gas in the United Kingdom against former GRU employee Sergei Skripal and his daughter, reports Voice of America.
Speaking at the launch of NATO’s Annual Report for 2017, Stoltenberg called the poisoning of Skripal "the first offensive use of a nerve agent on Alliance territory since NATO’s foundation."
He described the attack as part of "a reckless pattern of Russian behavior …
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Ukraine extends sanctions against subsidiaries of Russian banks
As the press service of the regulatory body reported, the National Bank of Ukraine has decided to extend sanctions against Ukrainian subsidiaries of Russian state-owned banks.
The National Bank extended sanctions in order to put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council on March 1st.
Earlier, President Petro Poroshenko emphasized that sanctions towards banks with Russian capital are effective and should be extended.
On March 23, 2017, Ukraine imposed sanctions …
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The UN Security Council calls on Russia to return Crimea to Ukraine
On March 15th, at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the situation in the annexed Crimea, representatives of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the United States, and other countries called on Russia to return the Crimea to Ukraine and confirmed that sanctions imposed on Russia would not be lifted while the peninsula remains under Russian control. The event was broadcast on the United Nations website.
The representative of Great Britain to the United Nations recalled the …
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PACE prepares resolution about racial discrimination of Crimean Tatars by Russia
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will prepare a report and a resolution on racial discrimination by Russia of the Crimean Tatars in the annexed peninsula, as reported by Volodymyr Ariev, head of the permanent delegation of the Ukrainian parliament in PACE, on Facebook.
“PACE has unanimously decided that the Assembly will prepare a separate report and resolution about racial discrimination of Crimean Tatars by Russia in the Crimea. The day before yesterday the PACE Monitoring …