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Georgia recalls ambassador to Ukraine for consultations over Saakashvili's appointment as head of Reform Council
Georgia recalls its ambassador from Ukraine for consultations regarding the appointment of Mikheil Saakashvili as head of the Ukrainian National Reform Council, announced Georgian Foreign Minister, David Zalkaliani, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
"This is an accepted practice in diplomatic relations, which indicates the emergence of certain problems in bilateral relations, so to determine future steps we require consultations with the ambassador," said Zalkaliani.
The National Reforms Council was …
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Turkish media: Russia recruits Syrian militants to fight in Libya
Russia is allegedly inviting Syrians supporting the Assad government in the military conflict to go to fight in eastern Libya on the side of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, reports the Turkish news agency Anadolu with reference to "local sources" in the Syrian Arab Republic .
In the end of April, in Daraa province in southern Syria, a "Russian military delegation led by a high-ranking officer" has met several times "with groups of Syrian mercenaries who had previously fought for money on the …
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Kyiv prepares plan B for reintegration of Donbas
The Presidential Administration is working to achieve peace in the Donbas by the end of the year, stated the head of the president's office Andrii Yermak, as cited RBC-Ukraine.
If peace cannot be achieved within the specified time frame, Plan B will be used, as Kyiv will not wait for years if "that side does not want to stop the war," Yermak added.
"But by the end of the year we intend to do everything we can, and the increased work of the Trilateral Contact Group is proof of that. But we …
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Putin bans Russian military from disclosing their affiliation with Russian Army
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree prohibiting the Russian military from disclosing their affiliation with the Russian army on the Internet or social media.
The dissemination of such information will henceforth be considered a gross misconduct, TASS reports, citing the presidential decree published on the website of legal information.
According to the document amending the Disciplinary Charter of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of 2007, military personnel will …
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Poll: Putin's ratings fall to historic lows
President Vladimir Putin continues to lose "approval" and "trust" in the eyes of Russians who are confined in quarantine, deprived of income and consider the government’s support to be insufficient, the sociological research organization, Levada Center has found.
The poll, conducted on April 24-27, showed the President has the lowest ratings in his 20 years in office - both using "open" and on "closed" method of questions.
As sociologists found out, at the end of April, 59% of respondents " …
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Russian billionaire who sponsored Putin’s hockey league commits suicide
Russian billionaire Dmitry Bosov committed suicide on the night of May 6, reported RBC news agency,citing friends of the deceased. The motives of the suicide have not been determined.
According to law enforcement agencies, on Wednesday night, the police responded to a call about a suicide in the suburban village of Usovo, where the businessman lived.
According to preliminary information, the body of a 52-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the head was found by relatives. A Glock 19 gen 4 …
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Belarus begins war with Russia in global fertilizers market
Saudi oil dumping tactics seem to be a contagious example for Belarus, which competes with Russia in the supply of potash fertilizers.
The Belarusian potash company - the trading subsidiary of Belaruskali - has sharply reduced prices for consumers in China.
On April 30, the company announced that it had entered into a contract with a consortium of Chinese buyers (Sinochem, CNAMPGC, CNOOC) at a price of $220 per ton. Compared to the previous contract, Belarusian fertilizers fell by $70 per ton, …
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Kyiv: almost 200 thousand Donbas residents received Russian passports
According to preliminary data, about 1.6 million people live in the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), but the exact data is no known, stated Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Oleksii Reznikov in an interview LB.ua.
"Previously, according to the old data, there were about five million people living in the Donetsk region, and about two million in Luhansk. Total - seven. Since 2014, some of them left for Russia, …
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Saakashvili to get position in Ukraine’s National Reforms Council
Mikheil Saakashvili, former president of Georgia and former head of the Odesa regional administration, confirmed his appointment to the National Reforms Council of Ukraine.
"The head of the executive committee, not the secretary," Saakashvili told Deutsche Welle .
Earlier, the media reported on his appointment to the post of secretary of the council.
Saakashvili's exact date of appointment has not yet been announced.
The National Reforms Council was created in 2014 by decree of the fifth …
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Putin awards Kim Jong-un 'World War II victory' medal
Russian President and Vladimir Putin signed a decree awarding the leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un a World War II Victory medal , Kommersant reports, citing the Russian Embassy in Pyongyang.
According to the Russian Embassy, the 37-year-old leader of the Workers' Party of Korea was awarded the Jubilee Medal "75 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" for his great personal contribution to the perpetuation of the memory of soviet citizens who died and buried in the republic, as …