Contents tagged with Russia
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Norway promises to respond to Russia's ban on entry for its journalist
The Director of Communications for the Foreign Ministry of Norway, Frode Overland Andersen, said that the country condemns Moscow's for ban the entry of Norwegian journalist Thomas Nielsen into Russia.
As reported by NRK news agency, this act is considered in Norway to be unlawful and unreasonable, and will not be left unanswered.
"We believe that it is unreasonable and unlawful to use EU restrictive measures as a pretext for refusing entry to Russia for Norwegian citizens," Andersen said. …
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President of Germany: Russia could intervene in our elections
The President of Germany, Joachim Gauck, stated that the country should be aware of the possibility of Moscow’s interference in the Bundestag election campaign. “It would be naïve to think that this can be completely avoided,” Joachim Gauck said in his interview with Bild am Sonntag. According to him, false statements have been made at the governmental level of the Russian Federation.
“Nearly 18 months ago, false statements that refugees in Germany raped a young Russian-speaking German …
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Rostec: Russia has weapons to defend against the new US micro-drone swarm
On March 12th Interfax.ru reported that the CEO of the State Corporation Rostec, Sergey Chemezov, said that Russia has weapons to use against the swarm of tiny drones recently demonstrated in the US.
"The JSC company, Radio-Electronic Technologies, has created a system of electronic warfare which renders the control systems of these drones useless." The installed radio electronic equipment burns down and the drone becomes just a piece of metal," he said in an interview with Vesti Nedeli, which …
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Russian citizenship may begin to be issued according to birthright
According to the chairman of the Committee for Nationalities of the Russian State Duma (Russian Parliament) Ruslan Balbek, a bill has been introduced in the State Duma that would establish a new principle of obtaining citizenship on the basis of "jus soli" (birthright citizenship) as reported by RIA Novosti.
"The main criterion will be knowledge of the Russian language, as well as connection with the territories of the Soviet Union and the former Russian Empire," Balbek explained.
From the …
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Military Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine: Russia gave a bogus address for Yanukovych
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office gave the Ukrainian prosecutor a bogus residential address for former president Viktor Yanukovych as stated by Ruslan Kravchenko, Prosecutor of the Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine (PGO), while on air with 112 Ukraine TV Channel.
“The Russian Prosecutor’s General Office gave us a bogus residential address for the suspected individual, Yanukovych,” he said.
“After that we sent requests to all the possible residential addresses and whereabouts …
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Peskov: Putin and Trump could meet in July
The meeting of Russian and US presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump could take place at the G20 summit in Hamburg in July, said Dmitry Peskov, Press Secretary to the Russian president.
“If we don’t arrange an earlier summit, their meeting presumably could take place at the G20 summit in Hamburg in July, because this is the first place where their paths could cross,” Peskov said in a CNN interview.
Responding to a question on what the first meeting of the two leaders could be, the press …
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Russia announces its candidate for Eurovision 2017 in Ukraine
Singer Yulia Samoylova will represent Russian in the singing contest Eurovision 2017, which will be held in the Ukrainian capital in May. This was reported on Sunday, March 12, on Channel One Russia. Samoylova will sing the song “Flame is Burning.” Because she is disabled, the singer is confined to a wheelchair.
Disabled performers have participated before in Eurovision. In 2015, Polish singer Monika Kuszynska, confined to a wheelchair like Samoylova, sang in Vienna. Before that, in 2008, …
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Russia deploys radio-electronic warfare system to the Crimea
The Russian military in the Crimea has deployed a “Murmansk-BN” radio-electronic warfare system which is capable of detecting, monitoring and disrupting communications between NATO ships as far as the Mediterranean Sea, Crimean media reports.
“The Murmansk-BN is a coastal radio-electronic warfare system which performs radio reconnaissance, intercepts enemy signals and jams them on the entire short-wave range for up to 5000 km. The system is mounted on seven trucks. The antenna system is …
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Turkey does not allow ships from the Crimea into its ports
As reported by Ukrainian TSN news channel, ships from the Crimea are not allowed into Turkish ports. TSN reports that the logistics company confirmed that ferries that arrived from Sevastopol are not allowed to enter the port of Zonguldak. This is not the first time that Crimean vessels were not allowed to moor while boats from Russian regions do not face such problems. The information was later confirmed by the Crimean Maritime Agency.
The director of the Crimean Maritime Agency, Stanislav …
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Ukraine may submit a new claim against Russia to the International Court of Justice
Ukraine can demand new restrictions against the Russian Federation from the International Court of Justice, if Moscow violates the orders of the Court. Olena Zerkal, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for the European Integration, expressed this opinion in an interview with Zerkalo Nedeli (The Mirror Weekly).
In her opinion, the Court will comply with the request of Ukraine to apply temporary measures against the Russian Federation as part of the hearing that took place this …