Contents tagged with crimea
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Turkish Foreign Minister: Ankara will not reconsider its position on Ukraine's territorial integrity
Speaking at the conference of Ambassadors in Ankara, the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, stated that a dialogue with Russia will contribute to resolving many conflicts. He noted that cooperation with Moscow does not justify a review of Ankara’s position on Ukraine and Georgia.
“We support the territorial integrity of Ukraine and Georgia. We don’t recognize the annexation of Ukrainian territories,” Turkish media quoted the Minister as saying. Speaking of the Syrian …
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Media: Crimea began receiving gas from Russia’s Krasnodar Krai
Russia has begun delivery of gas from Krasnodar Krai to the annexed Crimea through a new pipeline but currently only in the commissioning stages, as was reported by a member of the State Duma Committee on Energy, former first Vice-Premier of the Crimean government controlled by the Kremlin, Mikhail Sheremet.
"The gas is in the system already. Starting-up and adjustment works are being conducted, within the framework of which the gas is supplied from the mainland of the Russian Federation. …
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SBU cannot ban Moldovan President from entering Ukraine because of statements about the Crimea
The State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) cannot ban the President of Moldova, Igor Dodon, from entering the country because of his statements that the Crimea belongs to Russia, as reported by RBC-Ukraine.
Dodon has previously stated that he considers the Crimea as "de facto Russian." Such statements (before being elected President) caused the Verkhovna Rada to send a request to the SBU to ban him from entering Ukraine.
"But neither then, nor now, was this ban imposed and Dodon can safely …
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150 foreign vessels illegally entered Crimean ports in 2016
During 2016, 150 merchant vessels, flying the flags of 49 foreign countries, entered ports of the occupied Crimea – Yevpatoria, Sevastopol, Yalta, Feodosia, and Kerch – violating bans and sanctions, as demonstrated by the monitoring of the information portal, BSNews, which uses an AIS (automatic identification system) vessel tracking system.
In 2016, another 40 vessels that violated the policies of the occupied territory for the first time were added to the list of old violators, which entered …
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Le Pen seeks funding from Russian banks for French presidential election
The President of the French right-wing populist party, the National Front, Marine Le Pen, requested foreign financial institutions, including Russian banks, to fund her election campaign, as she stated in her interview with French TV Channel BFMTV on January 4th.
According to her, all French banks have refused to give her a loan for her election campaign before the first round of presidential elections in France in April 2017. Currently, Le Pen is in need of 6 million Euros.
“I submitted …
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SBU wants to ban the French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen from entering Ukraine
The leader of the French far-right presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, said that the annexation of the Crimea by Russia "was not illegal since the people voted to join Russia in the referendum."
As UNIAN reported, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) sent a letter to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry requesting that the presidential candidate of the French far-right party, Marine Le Pen, be banned from entering the country, due to her statements about Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
"On …
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Ukrainian Foreign Ministry expresses outrage over Marine Le Pen’s statements on Crimea
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is outraged following the statement of the leader of the far-right party National Front, Marine Le Pen, who is running for president in France, in which she said she supported Russia's annexation of the Crimea.
"We remind you that Russia’s actions on this particular matter were strongly condemned by all civilized countries of the world, as supported by the UN General Assembly resolutions of 2014 and 2016, as well as by multiple decisions and documents of the EU, …
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Ukrainian official: There are indications that the Kremlin is willing to give up the Donbas
The Ukrainian Deputy Minister for the temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced persons, George Tuka, is convinced that Ukraine will regain control over the occupied territory of the Donbas in 2017 or in mid-2018 at the latest. Tuka stated this in his interview with Novoye Vremya.
“Currently, Russia is ready to give back the Donbas only on its own terms. However, I am sure that Ukraine will manage to take over the initiative and implement its own scenario on the return of the …
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The Russian Navy will receive several new Podsolnuh radar systems
In 2017, the Russian Federation Navy plans to acquire several Podsolnuh radars that will be deployed to the Baltic and Black Seas, Interfax reported.
"These new radar stations will be able to control the 200-mile coastal zone," an informed source told Interfax.
He added that one Podsolnuh will be deployed in the Baltics and another in the Black Sea.
The Podsolnuh Radar passed state tests in 2006. Currently there are three stations on duty: the first is in the Sea of Okhotsk, the second is in …
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Herashchenko: I do not consider Kissinger’s and Pinchuk’s ideas about the Crimea realistic
The First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, and Ukraine's representative to the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group, Iryna Herashchenko, has criticized a proposal by the a former U.S. Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger and Ukrainian oligarch, Victor Pinchuk, about the "exchange of the Crimea for the Donbas."
"Colleagues have asked about my attitude towards Henry Kissinger’s position on exchanging the Crimea for the Donbas. With all due respect to Henry Kissinger’s …