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Kyiv is confident that it will win European Court of Human Rights case against Russia
Kyiv is confident it will win the dispute with Russia in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), as stated by the Ukrainian Commissioner for the EHCR, Ivan Lishchyna, channel ZIK reported.
"In order to win, you need to work. And the interstate disputes team works almost around the clock. Our task is to win, and we will win in this dispute", he said.
At the same time, Lishchyna stressed that the EHCR has no solutions regarding Ukraine's relationship with Russia in Eastern Ukraine. "The …
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Stoltenberg announced NATO’s intention to support allies in the Black Sea
NATO is going to reinforce its defense and "support allies" in the Black Sea as stated by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in a telephone conversation with the Foreign Minister of Romania, Teodor Meleșcanu, as reported by the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"Romania has expressed a strong commitment to deepening transatlantic relations and implementing all obligations concerning the allocation of resources necessary to the line of defense," the message says.
It also indicated …
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Putin introduced a bill that regulates the conduct of searches of lawyers and their offices
Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma a draft law regulating the procedure for carrying out searches of lawyers, as well as clarifying the powers of the defenders. The corresponding document is available on the website of the lower house of Parliament, RBC reports.
According to the text of the bill, Putin's initiative involves introducing changes to the Criminal Procedure Code or CPC of the Russian Federation.
"The legal search of a lawyer’s property or premises could …
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Tillerson and Lavrov will hold talks next week in Germany
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold talks next week in Germany. This will be their first official meeting.
The Russian minister mentioned this during an interview with channel NTV.
"Rex Tillerson, like me, will be attending the events that will be held this month in Germany. There will be a meeting of G20 foreign ministers in Bonn as well as the annual Munich Security Conference, which will be held back to back ... there will be a good …
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Lavrov: The Kremlin has already initiated dialogue with the Trump administration
Russia has begun a dialogue with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, as stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during an interview with Channel NTV.
"We respect the positions of any country, and are always ready to sit down and discuss any approaches, even those that completely contradict our own. I believe that our dialogue with the administration of Donald Trump, which has already begun, will become more intensive as soon as all parts of the administration engaged in …