Contents tagged with Russia
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Russia refuses to take part in January PACE session
Russia will not send its delegation to the upcoming session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to be held on 22-26 January, as indicated by the Deputy speaker of the State Duma, Pyotr Tolstoy, who is supervising international activities in the lower House of Parliament, to TASS.
"The Russian Federation will not present its delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in January because an essential condition for our work there, in particular, …
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Putin: Russia is ready to return military ships and aircraft from the Crimea to Ukraine
At a meeting with the chief editors of print media and news agencies in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced his readiness to transfer the military equipment left in the Crimea after the annexation of the peninsula back to Ukraine, Interfax reports.
"The Ukrainian side has repeatedly raised the issue of the return of military equipment from the Crimea. We are ready to continue with this process; we are ready to hand over military ships to Ukraine, aviation equipment, armored …
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US: Russia continues to intimidate OSCE observers in Donbas
The United States accuses Russia of continuing to intimidate the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in the Donbas, and preventing it from carrying out its tasks. A statement to this effect was made by US Chargé d'Affaires Harry Kamian on Thursday, January 11, Ukrinform reports.
“The SMM in Ukraine is a critically important component of the OSCE response. The SMM plays an important role in the process of implementing the Minsk agreements. However, Russia and her proxies continue to …
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Kyiv denies Kremlin’s accusations of involvement in attacks on Russia’s military bases in Syria
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense denied accusations of involvement in the attack on Russian military bases in Syria, calling them an “information attack,” Ukrinform reports.
“This is another information attack [by Russia]. We reject these accusations, and of course, this information attack is done, first of all, to cover up what the Russian Federation is now doing in the Crimea as well as in Donetsk and Luhansk, where arms from Russia are supplied,” said the press secretary of the Minister of …
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Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs: There is no point in political meetings with Russia
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius stated that, at the present time, there is no sense in high-level political meetings with Russia. That said, all necessary pragmatic non-political contacts are being maintained, reported the news portal Delfi, citing an interview by the Minister on the radio station Ziniu radijas.
"We really do not see the point in high-level political meetings at present [with Russia]; moreover, they won’t solve anything additional, except politicize the situation. …
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Finland strengthens its border with Russia
The Finnish Border Guard is deploying additional personnel to enhance control on the border with Russia, Yle news agency reports.
The decision was made due to an increase in the number of tourists from Russia as well as the international situation. Perhaps, a more telling reason was the significant reduction in the number of border guards over the past three years.
"From 2014 to 2017 a massive reduction of border guards has been observed at the Finnish-Russian border. In some regions, their …
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Moscow court denied Siemens’ claim to return gas turbines delivered to Crimea
The Moscow Arbitration Court dismissed the claim of the Russian subsidiary of the German company Siemens against the Russian state corporation Rostec on the return of the turbines supplied for the thermal power plants (TPPs) being built in the annexed Crimea, as reported on January 10th by RIA Novosti.
"We deny the claim," Judge Ayuna Tsidipova said.
The plaintiff, manufacturer of turbines, Siemens Gas Turbine Technologies LLC, asked the court to recognize the contract for the supply of …
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Russian Ministry of Finance announces complete depletion and liquidation of Reserve Fund
In an official press release, The Russian Ministry of Finance has stated that that Russia’s Reserve Fund was completely depleted in December 2017, and will cease to exist beginning February 1, 2018.
"In December 2017 ... the balance of the Reserve Fund in foreign currency on accounts with the Bank of Russia ($7.62 billion, 6.71 billion euros and 1.10 billion pounds sterling) was fully used to cover the deficit of the federal budget," the report said.
As follows from the Russian agency’s …
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Russian oligarch Deripaska sues Manafort for '$26 million fraud'
A company owned by Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska has filed a lawsuit against Paul Manafort, former head of Trump’s electoral campaign, and his assistant Richard Gates. Deripaska’s Cyprus-based company Surf Horizon Limited accuses Manafort and Gates of millions of dollars of fraud.
Surf Horizon Limited filed a lawsuit at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, claiming that Manafort and Gates pocketed a portion of the $18.9 million which Surf invested in the Ukrainian …
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Turkey called on Russia to stop Assad’s offensive in Idlib
Turkey urged Russia and Iran to influence Syrian President Bashar Assad to stop the offensive in the province of Idlib. Ankara is worried that the fighting may lead to a new flow of refugees across its southern border, as expressed by Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, the Turkish Foreign Minister, on Wednesday, January 10th in an interview with Anadolu.
According to Çavuşoğlu, the offensive in Idlib contradicts joint agreements on the establishment of a de-escalation zone in the only province of Syria that …