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Erdogan asks Dzhemilev for the list of Ukrainian prisoners held in Russia
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked the leader of the Crimean Tatars Mustafa Dzhemilev to give him the list of Ukrainian prisoners detained in Russia and promised to discuss this issue with Putin, Dzhemilov said in an interview to Radio Svoboda.
“During our recent meetings – it was on July 12 – Poroshenko (Petro Poroshenko, the president of Ukraine) and I were present at the opening of the Trans-Anatolian gas system. We met again with Erdogan. I told him that there are more than 70 …
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Kremlin to pay for Russian oligarch’s escape from London Stock Exchange
The Russian government has decided to assist Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, who holds the 10th place on the Forbes list of wealthiest Russians ($12.5 billion), to delist MegaFon shares from the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and to buy out minority shareholders, finanz.ru reports.
Leading up to the buyback, scheduled for August 22, in which MegaFon plans to buy 20.8% of its own shares and depository receipts, the company has received massive investments from the largest government banks. …
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Russia blocks the Sea of Azov
Russia took complete control over the Sea of Azov. During the past week, Russia did not allow any ships to pass through the Kerch Strait to reach the Ukraine ports. The ports of Mariupol and Berdyansk are almost empty, writes the expert of the Maidan of Foreign Affairs non-profit organization and reporter of BlakcSeaNews, Andrei Klimenko on his Facebook page.
"Between 07:00 (local Moscow time) on August 14, 2018, and 9:00 (local Moscow time) on August 21, 2018, the Russian Federation has not …
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Germany rejects Putin’s request to help restore Syria
The German Government believes that it is premature to raise the question of providing assistance for the reconstruction of Syria because a political truce must first be established there, said Steffen Seibert, spokesman for the Federal Government and head of the Federal Press Office on Monday, August 20.
“The German federal government does not believe that the problem of Syria’s restoration should be addressed immediately’, dpa news agency quotes Seibert as saying. He added that the Syrian …
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Russian oligarchs’ assets frozen in Cyprus at US’s request
The Russian billionaires who have been placed under US sanctions have been hit by massive audits of their offshore accounts.
Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Vekselberg, who were blacklisted by the US Treasury Department in April, have been cut off from their assets in Cyprus.
The island’s banks have frozen Deripaska’s and Vekselberg’s accounts since April 6, when the US sanctions were announced and came into effect. This was reported by RBC, citing the US Treasury Department’s report on opposing …