Contents tagged with Ukraine
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Kravchuk: Khrushchev forced Ukraine to take Crimea
In an interview with Radio Liberty, first Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk claimed that First General-Secretary of the CPSU (Communist Part of the USSR) Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev literally forced Ukraine to take the Crimea in 1954. According to Kravchuk, the residents of the peninsula met Khrushchev in tears prior to the adoption of this decision.
"’Nikita Sergeyevich, we cannot live here, we do not know how to work here, it's not ours, take us away from here.’ Khrushchev, …
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Human rights advocates: 10,000 Crimeans were illegally conscripted into Russian Army
About 10,000 Crimeans were called for military service in the Russian army over the past three years, as evidenced by the data published in a report by a Crimean human rights group.
“The number of Crimeans called up for service in the Russian army significantly increased in 2017. In 2016, about 3,100 people and a little less than 5,000 recruits from the Crimea were sent to the Russian military in 2017. The total number of recruits called up by the Armed Forces of Russia is about 10,000 …
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Kravchuk suggests that Russia and Ukraine hold direct talks
The former first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk said in an interview with Radio Liberty that in order to stop the war that Russia is waging against Ukraine, a direct agreement is needed between the leaders of both states.
"It is necessary, first of all, no matter how difficult it is, to achieve a meeting at the level of the Russian and Ukrainian authorities, one on one. What is happening in the Donbas is the hand of the Kremlin, and until we agree with Russia... [about what] we can do, …
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Ukraine detains ex-health minister of the annexed Crimea
An ex-"Minister" of annexed Crimea, Petro Mikhalchevsky, who is suspected of treason, was taken into custody for a month, the Press Secretary of the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Tatyana Tikhonchik announced on January 8.
According to Krym.Realii, during the court hearing, the representatives of the Prosecutor's Office insisted on the detention of Mikhalchevsky for a period of 60 days.
"The work of Mikhalchevsky in the Russian government of the Crimea is an …
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Russia on US reconnaissance flights over Ukraine: Crimea has been turned into a fortress
The flights of the US heavy unmanned RQ-4A Global Hawk and the R-8A Poseidon maritime reconnaissance aircraft along the demarcation line in the Donbas and over Black Sea waters close to annexed Crimea are related to the US’s interest in Russian weaponry, believes Ivan Konovalov, director of the Russian Center for Strategic Conjuncture, RT reports.
“The goal is obvious – reconnaissance of Crimea’s modern military infrastructure. And that it is powerful is also obvious, the Russian leadership is …
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Killer of lawyer Nozdrovska arrested in Ukraine
Law enforcement officers arrested a person suspected of murdering lawyer Iryna Nozdrovska. This was reported by Artem Shevchenko, director of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s communication department.“A person has been arrested who is objectively suspected of committing the crime,” Shevchenko said.
As reported by the Interior Ministry’s press service, law enforcement authorities identified and questioned all six drivers of the route buses in the interval between 17:00 and 18:00, who were …
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Ukrainian state border guards refused thousands of dollars in bribes in 2017
Officers of the State Border Guard Service, during 2017, have been offered over UAH 1 million ($35,440 USD) in bribes, which they turned down, the press service of the State Border Guard reported.
“Last year officers of the State Border Guard Service completed and filed with the National Police more than a thousand crime alerts under article 369 of the Penal Code (offering, promising, or rendering unlawful benefits to an official),” the statement read.
In 2018, the first attempt to bribe …
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Ukrainian Ministry of Defense: nearly 26,000 hectares of land cleared of mines in the Donbas in 2017
The press service of the Ministry of Defense reported that over the course of 2017, bomb disposal experts cleared nearly 26,000 hectares of land area in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of mines, neutralizing approximately 326,000 explosive items.
"In particular, the bomb squads of the Armed Forces of Ukraine worked on a 3,632-hectare territory where they managed to neutralize and destroy more than 177,500 explosive objects. They also cleared more than 1,100 kilometers of roads, as well as 18 …
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Separatist DPR considers legalizing blockchain mining and cryptocurrency transactions
The Donbas Post, which is controlled by the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic is planning to introduce blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, as stated in the publication ‘Ministries and Departments for 2018’ on the DNR-LIVE website.
The publication does not contain detailed information on the development of blockchain technology.
In November 2017, the Minister of Communications of the DPR, Viktor Yatsenko, called cryptocurrencies, “a promising mechanism to attract investment.”
“I am …
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Leader of Right Sector: Ukraine will take back all its territories
Ukraine will certainly regain all its ethnic lands, including the annexed Crimea and the Donbas, as stated by the People's Deputy Dmytriy Yarosh on his Facebook page.
He thanked all Ukrainians who support the "sacred fight for the state and Ukrainian law."
We have a lot of problems in Ukraine. With time, we will solve them. But we are a nation (and for the dead, and living, and unborn, my countrymen in Ukraine and not only in Ukraine), which lives and fights both on this God-given land and …