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Steven Seagal becomes Russia's Special Envoy for Humanitarian Relations with the United States
The Russian Foreign Ministry has appointed Hollywood actor Steven Seagal, who has Russian citizenship, as its special envoy on issues of Russian-American humanitarian ties, the press service of the Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Saturday.
"The task is to facilitate further development of Russian-American relations in the humanitarian field, including cooperation in culture, art, public and youth exchanges," said the ministry.
The Foreign Ministry stressed that it is a socio-political …
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Soldier arrested in Ukraine for joining Russian Armed Forces during the annexation of Crimea
A former serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who joined the Russian army after the annexation of the Crimea annexation was arrested in the Kirovohrad region, reported the press service of the Military Procurator's Office of the Central Region of Ukraine.
According to the report, the detainee has been wanted since 2014. He used to be a senior soldier of a Ukrainian military unit in the Crimea. In early March 2014, after the Russian annexation of the peninsula, the soldier did not arrive …
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Poland claims its dependence on Russian gas decreasing
The Polish oil and gas company PGNiG in its press release reported the increase in import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) into the country. According to the company, although the volume of gas purchased in Russia has also increased, its share in total imports amount has decreased.
In January-July 2018, LNG shipments to Poland increased by 0.6 billion cubic meters (by 60%) compared to the same period last year. These LNG supplies to Poland came from Norway, Qatar and the United States. Over the …
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Kremlin: Russian military presence in the Central African Republic is legitimate
Russian their military units and specialists in the Central African Republic are there “on a perfectly legal basis at the request of the country’s president”, said the official representative for the Russian Foreign, Ministry Maria Zakharova, as quoted by Interfax news agency.
“The Russians’ main task is to train local military personnel in handling weapons and equipment that was supplied to the Central African Republic by the Russian Ministry of Defense on a no-cost basis in late January- …
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Russia denies Amnesty International access to imprisoned filmmaker Sentsov
The international human rights organization Amnesty International did not receive permission to meet with Ukrainian political prisoner Oleg Sentsov, who is currently in a Russian prison colony, as reported by the organization’s press office.
On July 30 the Amnesty International office in Moscow received a letter from Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Valery Balan which denied the human rights organization’s request to visit Sentsov in the penal colony in Labytnangi, but there …