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Turkish MFA: Ankara will continue to support the Crimean Tatars
According to a spokesman of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Tanju Bilgiçit, it is deeply regrettable that the Russian Supreme Court has decided to uphold the ban on the activities of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars, Anadolu reported.
According to him, Turkey's position on the issue of their support of the Crimean Tatars remains unchanged.
“We will continue to support the Crimean Tatars in the face of pressure,” Bilgiç said.
“The Crimean Tatars make legitimate demands through democratic and …
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NATO will continue its policy of pressuring Moscow to implement agreements in Ukraine
The Deputy Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Alexander Vershbow, stated that NATO intends to keep pressure on Moscow until it begins to implement previously undertaken obligations on the Ukrainian issue, European Pravda reported. According to Vershbow, the security situation in the Euro-Atlantic region has significantly deteriorated due to annexation of the Crimea by Russia in 2014 and the subsequent participation of Russian servicemen in the Donbas.
Meanwhile, …
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McFaul is worried that Trump adviser will be appointed as US Ambassador to Russia
There are fears in the US that one of Donald Trump’s advisors may become an official representative of the country. Trump is currently running for president as the official candidate of the Republican Party.
“I would be worried if one of Trump’s advisers became our next ambassador to Russia,” the former US ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, said to Politico newspaper.
The diplomat went on to say that there is concern about “many statements made in relation to Russia”.
The Republican …
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PayPal blocked accounts of a Russian company accused of cyber-attacks against the US
PayPal, a worldwide online payments system, has blocked the personal and corporate accounts of King Servers company, from whose servers the cyber-attack on the U.S. election systems was performed. The company’s owner, Vladimir Fomenko informed RIA Novosti of this development.
American experts have previously declared that King Servers, whose owner lives in the city of Biysk, Altai region, owns six of the eight IP-addresses uncovered by the FBI in connection with the hacking investigation. It …
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Lavrov: Positive cooperation between Russia and the US will not work on the basis of ultimatums
After the suspension of the agreement with the United States on plutonium disposition, Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov stated that the United States will not be able to cooperate with Russia on the basis of ultimatums.
“The decisions we have taken will not work. The signal from Washington [is that they are] trying to talk with Russia from a position of strength, using language of sanctions and ultimatums and at the same time continuing the selected cooperation with our country only in …