Contents tagged with Russia
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Russia refuses to take part in trilateral gas talks with Ukraine and the EU
Energy Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak said there will be no gas negotiations with Ukraine and the European Union, TASS reported.
"No trilateral negotiations are being planned as all the court proceedings are based on the contracts and relations between commercial organizations, particularly between Gazprom and Naftogaz. Only the said two companies must settle all these issues," Novak said.
According to the report, Naftogaz and Gazprom failed to agree on the conditions of …
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Journalist: Russian Wagner Private Military Company continues to recruit mercenaries for operations in Sudan and Syria
The Russian journalist Igor Pushkaryov, who visited the Wagner Private Military Company’s (PMC) secret base in Krasnodar Krai, learned from the mercenaries that the PMC has a new assignment. In an Echo of Moscow radio broadcast, Pushkaryov said that at the end of last week, two new parties of Wagner troops had set out for Syria and Sudan.
“From quite short discussions with the population of this base and the inhabitants of the surrounding Molkino settlement, it became clear that even after the …
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Russia calls Great Britain's threats over poisoning of former spy 'absurdity'
Moscow has reacted very negatively to statements by British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson regarding the poisoning of former GRU officer Sergei Skripal.
"This is absurdity," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Interfax.
Konstantin Kosachev, Federation Council Committee Chair on International Affairs, said earlier on Tuesday that the articulation by the UK Foreign Minister of the unverified version of events, including potential involvement by the Russian Federation in …
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Russia opens criminal case after crash of An-26 in Syria
A criminal case was opened after the crash of an An-26 transport plane, as reported by the official representative of the Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation, Svetlana Petrenko.
The aircraft was on a routine flight in the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic. According to preliminary data, the An-26 transport plane crashed 500 meters from the Khmeimim Air Base.
The case was opened on the grounds of the crime described in Art. 351 of the Criminal Code (violation of flight rules …
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Russian general and 26 officers killed in plane crash in Syria
A major-general, 26 officers, ensigns, and contract soldiers were killed in the crash of a Russian An-26 transport plane in Syria, reported TASS, citing a source in the Russian Defense Ministry.
“As a result of the tragedy, 27 officers were killed, including one major-general, as well as ensigns and contract servicemen. There were no civilians on the An-26,” the Defense Ministry reported.
The commander of the aircraft was a first-class pilot with a little more than 3,000 flying hours. He had …
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Poroshenko: Gazprom's threats to terminate gas delivery contract with Ukraine another argument against Nord Stream-2
President Petro Poroshenko believes that Russia's threats not to fulfill the ruling of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce on the Naftogaz vs Gazprom case are another argument against the Russian Nord Stream-2 main gas pipeline project, as he stated at a meeting with the Minister of Defense of Sweden, Peter Hultqvist.
"Russia’s behavior…, the threats to stop gas supplies to Ukraine, to not obey the gas transit ruling of the court, and to terminate the [gas] contract, …
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Ukraine begins search for Gazprom’s assets in Europe
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has instructed the ambassadors in European countries to look for Gazprom’s assets in preparation for the collection of the Russian company’s debt to Naftogaz.
“If Russia does not comply, we will go to the courts – we will go to New York, we will go to London, we will go to all countries. I have already given our ambassadors the instruction to look for Gazprom’s assets throughout Europe. They keep accurate record of everything there,” Klimkin told the …
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Kyiv: Russia behind the attacks on the office of the Union of Hungarians in Uzhhorod
Pavlo Klimkin, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, believes that Russia is behind the attacks on the Society of Hungarian culture in Uzhhorod.
"Thanks to the police for active work in Transcarpathia. Russian traces everywhere. ‘Hello’ to all who speculated on mystical, anti-Hungarian sentiments. I doubt that this is the last destabilization attempt,” Klimkin wrote on Twitter.
On March 4, the police arrested three people involved in the attack on the Society of Hungarian culture on …
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Daughter of the rector of Russian university says her father prepared Putin's thesis
The rector of the St. Petersburg Mining University, Vladimir Litvinenko, personally wrote a thesis for Russian President, Vladimir Putin, as indicated by his daughter, Olga Litvinenko, Radio Liberty reports.
"One of Vladimir Putin’s secrets, which Olga Litvinenko knows very well, is how he [Putin] defended his Ph.D. thesis," the publication writes.
He defended his thesis in 1997 at the St. Petersburg Mining University, now a university headed by Vladimir Litvinenko. At that time, Putin …
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Russian State Duma deputy comes under fire in Donbas
A Russian State Duma Deputy, Alexey Zhuravlev (non-factional) came under fire on Monday in the Donbas, as he stated to RIA Novosti.
"I wanted to be assured of today's announced ceasefire. We arrived at the Pyatnashka battalion’s location and came under mortar fire. One of the cars was disabled, we had to turn around and leave," he said.
According to unofficial data, the shelling occurred in the town of Kruta Balka near Yasynuvata.
Zhuravlev is the chairman of the Russian Rodina (Fatherland) …