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Russia’s Interior Minister promises to expand cooperation with North Korea
The Russian Minister of Internal Affairs,Lieutenant-General Vladimir Kolokoltsev, during his meeting with the President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, Kim Yong-nam, in Pyongyang, announced Russia's intention to expand cooperation with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), reported the spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs , Irina Volk, on Tuesday.
“The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia stressed that Russia …
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NATO to guarantee safe passage for Ukrainian ships through Kerch Strait
The North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) plans to take steps to ensure that Ukrainian ships have safe passage through the Kerch Strait, US Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison told foreign reporters on Tuesday 2 April.
Hutchison confirmed that a corresponding package of measures should be approved during a two-day conference in Washington starting on Wednesday.
“The package will step up aerial surveillance, and will involve sending more NATO ships to the Black Sea in order to …
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Ukraine's Naftogaz to pay 14 million euros to Norwegian lawyers for assistance in lawsuit against Gazprom
Ukrainian national oil company Naftogaz has signed a contract for legal services in a lawsuit against the Russian gas giant Gazprom. Naftogaz will pay the lawyers of the Norwegian law firm Wikborg Rein Advokatfirma AS 14 million euros, according to Ukrainian Prozorro e-procurement system.
The cost of the services includes attorneys' fees and the costs of involving witnesses in the court proceeding.
At the end of January, in Stockholm, the initial hearing in the suit of Naftogaz against the …
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Fund of Putin’s daughter receives $430,000 from Russian oil giant Rosneft
The National Intellectual Development Foundation, headed by Vladimir Putin’s daughter Yekaterina Tikhonova, won the Rosneft tender for patent research, reported MBH-media.
The value of the contract is 28 million rubles ($430, 000 USD).
According to Rosneft’s request the patent research is to be conducted by "taking into account the priorities of the company's innovation activities."
In the summer of 2018, the RBC news agency reported that the National Intellectual Development Foundation …
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Russia conducts anti-aircraft missile exercises in Crimea
Russia began anti-aircraft missile exercises in the annexed Crimea. The units of the anti-aircraft missile regiment from the army corps of the Black Sea Fleet began exercises near Saki and Kacha airfields in the Crimea, the press service of the Russian Black Sea Fleet reported.
"More than 300 servicemen from anti-aircraft crews of the anti-aircraft missile regiment have launched a set of combat training tasks, including the deployment of firing positions, preparation for opening fire, as well …