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Head of DPR representative office in France arrested
Hubert Fayard, head of an organization that purports to be the official representation of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in Marseilles, has been arrested, RIA Novosti reports, citing its own source.
“He lost his job some time ago and found himself in tight financial circumstances. At the same time, he met a woman, a Ukrainian. I can’t say what their relations were, I wasn’t there. But essentially, she offered to lend him a certain amount of money,” the source explained.
The morning after …
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Chinese company to sue Ukraine for wrongful seizure of property
China National Building Material (CNBM) has notified the Ukrainian Justice Ministry about an investment dispute surrounding the Voskhod Solar power station in the Mykolaiv region, the Ukrainian News Agency reports.
This indicates that the Chinese company intends to file a lawsuit against the Ukrainian government if the parties cannot reach an agreement.
CNBM, which owns Voskhod Solar, claims that the company has become the object of a corporate raid and forceful property seizure by the …
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European Court of Human Rights orders Russia to pay opposition leader Navalny 20,000 euros
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered Russia to pay 20,000 euros to the opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, as compensation for moral damage.
According to the information published on the ECHR website, the court has decided that Russian authorities will also be required to pay 2,700 euros of legal fees. Navalny demanded 100,000 euros compensation.
The court ruled that Navalny’s house arrest in 2014, under which he was confined to his home for more than ten months, was illegal. The …
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Poland to demand $900 billion in reparations from Germany
Poland intends to demand reparations from Germany for the damage suffered during the Second World War in the amount of at least 900 billion dollars, stated the deputy of the Polish Sejm Janusz Shevchak, who is a member of the parliamentary group on the assessment of the amount of compensation.
“As long as Germany does not pay off Poland’s debt for World War II, and we are talking about an amount of no less than $900 billion, it should maintain exceptional restraint when it comes to attacks on …
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Macron to meet with Poroshenko and Zelensky ahead of the second round of presidential elections in Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron will hold meetings with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and presidential candidate Vladimir Zelensky ahead of the second round of the presidential elections in Ukraine, reports LB.ua, citing two of its diplomatic sources. This week, Petro Poroshenko will also meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The last time Poroshenko met with Macron was during his working visit to France in November 2018.