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Ex-President of Poland nominates Sentsov for Nobel Peace Prize
Polish ex-President Lech Walesa nominated the Ukrainian political prisoner Oleg Sentsov, currently imprisoned in Russia, for the Nobel Peace Prize, the Polish Film Academy reported.
Walesa noted that various international human rights organizations have already considered Sentsov's sentence illegal. In addition, according to the former President of Poland, the courage of a political prisoner, who does not require his own liberation, deserves attention.
In the late 1980s, Lech Walesa led the “ …
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National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to discuss the situation in the Azov Sea
President Petro Poroshenko instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to prepare proposals for the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) meeting on securing Ukrainian interests in the Azov Sea in view of Russia's actions in this region.
“I look forward to proposals regarding promoting our interests in the Azov Sea. I strongly believe that the current situation is absolutely unacceptable and I’m not going to just accept it,” Poroshenko said at a meeting with leaders of foreign …
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Ukraine to terminate friendship treaty with Russia
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has confirmed that Ukraine intends to end the Russian-Ukrainian Friendship Treaty.
“Today we have come adequately prepared and legally protected for the next step: terminating the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, which through Moscow’s fault has been anachronistic for a long time already,” Poroshenko said at a meeting with the Ukrainian ambassadors in Kyiv.
“I am expecting the Ministry of Foreign …
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Merkel and Trump urged Putin to influence Assad
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Donald Trump had a telephone call conversation, during which they discussed the situation in Syria,reported the representative of the German government Steffen Seibert.
It is noted that Germany and the United States share a common concern in connection with the humanitarian crisis in the Idlib region, as well as the movement of government forces on the holdings of Islamist and jihadist groups in this province.
Merkel and Trump "called on Russia …
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Russia announces largest military drills since 1981
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu has announced the largest military exercise since 1981, involving roughly 300,000 soldiers and 36,000 units of ground equipment, RBC news agency reports.
Speaking to reporters in Abakan, Shoygu said that the Vostok 2018 (“East 2018”) drills will be held from 11 to 15 September, and will be the largest since 1981.
“In some way they repeat ‘Zapad-81’, but in some way, perhaps, they are even larger in scale,” Shoygu commented. According to him, the drills …