Contents tagged with Russia
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Putin announces military conscription for 155,000 Russians
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on conscription of 155,000 citizens liable for military service. This is reported on the official web portal of legal information of the Russian Federation.
"To be implemented from April 1 to July 15, 2016, the conscription of Russian citizens between the ages of 18 to 27 years, that are not in reserve and are liable to ... conscription, numbering 155 thousand people," says the statement.
In the Spring of 2015, 150,000 people were called up for …
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President of Poland: Russia must withdraw from Crimea
Poland does not want a return to the Cold War, according to Polish President Andrzej Duda. Relations with Russia "must return to the way geopolitical relations were before the annexation of the Crimea," he added, according to his press service."We must demand the return to pre-annexation geopolitical relations. This means that Russia should withdraw from the Ukrainian peninsula," Duda said at the National Press Club in Washington, while visiting the US to attend the Washington Summit on Nuclear …
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Ukraine suspends agreement with Russia on the protection of technical information
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine suspended the agreement with Russia about cooperation in the sphere of technical protection of information. The Cabinet voted unanimously in favor of the decision. "No objections here could possibly exist," the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Arseniy Yatsenyuk said about the decision.
The agreement on technical protection of information was signed in 1996 in support of the development of industrial cooperation between the enterprises and industries of the CIS …
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Turkey detains suspected killer of downed Russian pilot
The suspected killer of Russian pilot Oleg Peshkov, who ejected after his plane was shot down by the Turkish Air Forces on November 24th, 2015, has been detained. According to Russian media, Alparslan Çelik allegedly killed the pilot as he descending by parachute after he ejected.
Hürriyet Daily News reports that on Wednesday, in one of the restaurants of Izmir, fourteen people were detained including Alparslan Çelik. According to Hürriyet, the detainees are all friends who fought together …
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Russia intends to present new charges against Director of the Library of Ukrainian literature
On the 5th of April, investigators intend to present evidence and charge the Director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature, Natalia Sharina, with embezzlement, as stated by her lawyer, Ivan Pavlov, TASS reported."On April 5th we are required to appear before the Investigative Committee for the indictment," he said.Earlier, the media had been reporting about new criminal charges against Sharina; however, according to her lawyers, nobody notified them about this new case until now. "We do not …
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Russian Energy Minister: Ukraine's discount on gas expired on March 31st
The Russian Minister of Energy, Alexander Novak, reported that the discount on gas given to Ukraine expired in late March, as posted on the website of the Ministry of Energy. It was noted that the amount of the discount during the first quarter of 2016 was $17.77. The final price of gas for Ukraine totaled $212 per thousand cubic meters.
“As of the 1st of April 2016, the price of gas for Ukraine will be fully in line with a valid contract between Gazprom and Naftogaz of Ukraine,” according to …
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Bild: Russia directly controls the Donbas
The editors of the German newspaper Bild have documents at their disposal proving that the Russian Federation has adopted complete political and economic control over the separatist regions of eastern Ukraine. The results of the journalistic investigation were published on the night of Wednesday, March 30th, on their website.
According to the existing minutes from the meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission in the State Duma of the Russian Federation on October 23rd, 2015, the actual …
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Media: Russian losses in Syria may number in the dozens
Russian fighters of the non-existent de jure private military company (PMC) are dying in Ukraine and Syria, but are not spoiling the statistics, as the internet newspaper Fontanka.ru reported in its new investigation. According to the online resource, an accuratel list of Russian losses can be seen only in the decrees of Russian President Vladimir Putin which have not been published before.Fontanka explains that the list refers to individuals belonging to a heavy armament infantry battalion …
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British Foreign Secretary says Russia is a global threat
Philip Hammond said that Russia ignores the norms of international behavior and violates the rules of the international system.
“Russia is a global threat, because its politics are contrary to international legal norms,” as said by the British Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, at a press conference in Tbilisi, during his visit to Georgia, Deutsche Welle reported.
"Russia ignores the norms of international behavior and violates the rules of the international system. It is a challenge and a …
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US to build radar system along Russian-Norwegian border
RBC reported on March 30th that the US will build a new military radar system in the Norwegian Vardø municipality on the border with Russia. The new military radar will be an upgraded model of the Globus II, which was installed in the late 1990s and is currently still in use. Work will begin in the summer of 2017 and will take about three years to complete. The US intends to spend 118 million to upgrade Globus II.
Norwegian Intelligence claims that Norway will be able to monitor objects in …
