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Ukrainian Ambassador to France: The West does not want to recognize the presence of Russian troops in the Donbas
France, Germany and the United States do not acknowledge the fact of the presence of the Russian troops in the Donbass region. In his article for Apostrophe news portal, Ambassador Oleh Shamshur claims that these countries hope for a return to the prewar order of things.
According to Shamshur, who is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to France, Western countries realize that Russian troops are in the Donbas region but this position is not public and will not be made …
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Russian army is training to block the Kerch Strait
Russian servicemen will train to block the Kerch Strait and gas condensate field in the annexed Crimea, the Russian Ministry of Defense press service reported on Wednesday, August 31.
“Formations of various attack forces from the Black Sea Fleet and the Caspian Flotilla will hold a series of trainings in the waters of the sea, aiming to defeat a hypothetical enemy and suppress an attempt to lift a blockade of the Kerch Strait and one of the gas condensate fields, and will also train to free a …
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Russia's economic forecast worsens slightly
The Russian Ministry of Economic Development has revised its outlook on the reduction of the GDP for 2016. On the 30th of August, Vedomosti reported that the ministry expects that this index may grow from 0.2% to 0.6% at the end of the year.
The ministry has estimated that the pace of economic decline in the country, compared to the same period of the previous year, has accelerated.
For this year, Russian economists have forecasted a slight increase of the average oil prices, from $40 to $41 …
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Poll: Fewer Russians support their government's actions in eastern Ukraine
Over the past year and a half, more and more Russians believe Russia’s intervention in the conflict in eastern Ukraine to be unnecessary, Radio Svoboda reported. According to a poll by the Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VCIOM), 38% of respondents believe that Moscow should maintain neutrality. In January 2015, there were 28% of respondents, who thought so.
The number of those who are in favor of recognition of independence of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Luhansk …
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Trade between Russia and Germany has fallen significantly
Countries of the former Soviet Union are becoming increasingly unimportant for German business. The volume of export-import operations with major countries of the region, excluding Ukraine, fell significantly. Evidence of this can be found in the data, for the first half of 2016, of the Federal Statistical Office of Germany.
DW reported that this data was exclusively obtained and then distributed to journalists by the German Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations, which is the …