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OSCE and US State Department criticized the Polish law on 'Bandera ideology' but Russia supported it
The law "On the Institute of National Memory" that was approved by the Polish Senate limits the freedom of speech, stated the representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on media freedom, Harlem Désir.
The Polish Sejm recently approved a law banning the propaganda of the so-called "Bandera ideology.” The law would make it possible to initiate criminal proceedings against individuals who deny the guilt of Ukrainian nationalists for crimes against the Poles. For …
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Security Service of Ukraine accuses cryptocurrency miners of financing DPR and LPR
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office have conducted searches on crypto-currency mining "farms" in Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast and Cherkassy. Law enforcement says that the miners are financing the DPR and LPR.
This was mentioned at a joint briefing with Oleksandr Klimchuk, head of the SBU’s Cyber-Security Department, said Chief Military Prosecutor Anatolii Matios.
According to Matios, equipment was seized from 400 farms during the searches at PJSC Kvazar in …
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Russia is ready to return to the Joint Control Center in Donbas only if LPR and DPR representatives also invited
The Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Grigory Karasin, called for the return of Russian officers to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire in the Donbas (JCCC).
In an interview with TASS, he said that Russian officers were ready to return to the JCCC in the Donbas after the mandate is approved and the representatives of the DPR and LPR are included in the mission.
"A joint center should have a mandate, that is, an established and approved procedure for …
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Assassination attempt on DPR Defense Minister rocks Donetsk
Unknown persons shelled the “Defense Ministry” of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in Donetsk at roughly 19:00 local time on Thursday.
The DPR military said that they believe the explosion in the Defense Ministry building was an assassination attempt on “Minister” Vladimir Kononov, Interfax reports.
“This act of terror is considered an assassination attempt on DPR Defense Minister Vladimir Kononov,” a representative of the DPR Defense Ministry told reporters.
According to the …
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Mejlis: 248 Crimean Tatars were detained in the annexed Crimea over the past year
The Russian security services in the annexed Crimea detained 248 Crimean Tatars in the last year, 99 were fined, and another 42 were arrested, said Eskender Bariev, a member of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, at a press conference on January 31st, according to Ukrainian News.
Bariev noted that the representatives of the indigenous population of the Crimea are subjected to massive pressure from the law enforcement.
Bariev said, "For 2017, our compatriots were fined more than 5 million rubles ($90,000 …