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Ukrainian President: Russia's Gazprom will pay for everything to a penny
In an interview with Ukrainian television channels on Wednesday, March 7, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that he is convinced that the Russian company Gazprom will fully pay Naftogaz $2.56 billion following the results of two arbitration disputes in the Stockholm Arbitration Court.
"I have no doubt that Ukraine will get everything to a penny. I declare that this issue is absolutely not about money. This issue has geopolitical significance ... The position of the Russian Federation, …
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US Special Representative for Ukraine: it's time to think about tougher sanctions over Crimea
US Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker stated that "it's time to think about tougher sanctions over the Crimea." Ukrinform reports on March 7 that he made the statement during his speech at the Warsaw office of the German Marshall Fund.
"It is important that the US, EU, Ukraine and other countries do not recognize Russia's annexation of the Crimea. I believe it's time to think about how we can make our position tougher, including consequences for trips [of politicians], trade and …
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Putin says that Russia was forced to annex Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow was consciously led to annex Crimea.
“Sometimes it seems to me - and I think that there are certain grounds for this - that someone consciously led us to such a line, and once there, we had to act the way we acted. Not many expected that we would act so quickly, so resolutely, if not boldly,” said Putin in TV host Vladimir Soloviev’s film “World Order 2018.” The film is on Soloviev’s Vkontakte page.
According to Putin, he did not doubt that …
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European Parliament decides to not send observers to elections in Russia
The European Parliament will not send observers to the presidential elections in Russia on March 18, nor will they send them to Azerbaijan on April 11.
This was announced on Wednesday by the co-chairs of the European Parliament’s group on democracy support and election coordination David McAllister and Linda McAvan, Ukrinform reports.
“The European Parliament will not observe these electoral processes and, consequently, will also not comment on these processes and the results which will be …
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Putin: 400 foreign agents were caught in Russia last year
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that during the past year, the activity of 72 personnel from foreign intelligence services and 397 foreign special services agents were detained in Russia.
On March 5th Putin spoke at the board of the Russian FSB, noting that in recent years, the activity of foreign intelligence agents was growing. According to Putin, they use the most modern methods of agent and technical intelligence.
He urged the Russian special services to prevent any attempts by …