Contents tagged with Russia
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Belarus to stop buying Russian electricity in 2018
Belarus has decided not to buy electricity from Russia at the prices proposed by Russia, as announced by Energy Minister Vladimir Potupchik, Belta news agency reports.
As of 2018, the country plans to completely stop importing electricity.
The minister made this statement after concluding negotiations with Russia on the purchase of electricity. “We reached the conclusion that we will not buy it at Russia’s prices, instead we will replace it with our own generation,” he said.
Previously, …
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Putin signs bill allowing authorities to fine messenger services for non-compliance with Russian laws
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law which envisages fines for messengers that do not comply with Russian legislation.
The relevant document was published on Russia’s official legal information portal.
If messengers fail to meet the obligations established by the legislation on information, information technologies and information protection, Russian citizens will be faced with fines from 3 to 5 thousand rubles, officials with fines from 30 to 50 thousand rubles, and legal entities …
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British Intelligence: flight MH17 was downed by Buk missile brought from Russia
British intelligence believes that the Buk anti-aircraft missile system used in the summer of 2014 to shoot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine was brought into the country and subsequently recovered by the Russian military. This was stated in the report of the Intelligence and Security Committee of the British Parliament with reference to the Secret Intelligence Service or MI6.
In particular, the report quotes from MI6 documents of 2016 stating that "without any doubt,” the Buk was …
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Russia ready to return its servicemen to JCCC
Russia is ready to return its servicemen to the Joint Center for the Control and Coordination (JCCC) for issues related to the ceasefire and the stabilization of the contact line.
“Russia’s representative in our security group just made an official statement that Russia is ready to return its representatives of the military to the JCCC under certain conditions. This the approval of the provision on the JCCC, its status, guarantees for security, etc.” wrote Ukrainian special representative in …
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SBU finds Russian agent in Ukrainian government
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported the uncovering of a Russian agent who worked in the secretariat of the Ukrainian government.
Ukrainian News agency reported the arrest of Stanislav Yezhov, deputy protocol supervisor of the Ukrainian prime minister.
According to the SBU, the official was recruited by Russian intelligence during a “long trip abroad”. “On the instructions of Russian supervisors, using special equipment, the official collected information on the operation of the …
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Ukrainian general: Russia’s withdrawal from JCCC will escalate the situation in Donbas
The withdrawal of the Russian military from the Joint Center for the Control and Coordination of the ceasefire and stabilization on the contact line in the Donbas (JCCC) will exacerbate the situation in the Donbas, according to the former Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant-General Ihor Romanenko, in his comments to InfoResist news website.
"I think that they are deliberately doing it. Because, as you know and remember, Putin's message is that the UN mission should, in this purpose, …
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Volker: By dragging out conflict, Russia wants to involve DPR and LPR in discussion of peacekeeping
The main difficulty in working to resolve the crisis in Donbas is that Russia continues to deny its role in the fighting, stated Kurt Volker, the U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations, as reported by Voice of America.
“Russia is continuing to deny its own role in this and that it has nothing to do with the separatist governments that it has set up, and that it changes the leaders at will as they did in Luhansk just last month,” Volker said.
According to him, by dragging out the …
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Kremlin: US national security strategy has an 'imperial nature'
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has said that the new US national security strategy "is of an imperial nature, and shows a persistent unwillingness to abandon a unipolar world", TASS news agency reports.
"A cursory reading of [the strategy], particularly those parts in which our country is mentioned in one way or another, in general [shows that] the imperial nature of the document is evident; there is an unwillingness to abandon the unipolar world, with …
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Russia presents Tajikistan with a shipment of heavy weapons
The Ministry of Defense of Russia has shipped a batch of small arms, artillery, armored hardware, anti-aircraft weapons and also paramedical, land surveying and other equipment, for free, to its counterpart in the Republic of Tajikistan, t RBC news agency reported cutting the Russian Ministry of Defense.
In particular, the Tajik Army received three T-72B1 tanks, nine BTR-80, BTR-70 armored personnel carriers, BMP-2 armored fighting vehicles, three D-30 howitzers, three 23M1 air-defense systems, …
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UN General Assembly adopts resolution on Crimea
70 countries voted in favor of the resolution “Human rights situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol”, 26 voted against it, and 76 countries abstained from voting on Tuesday, Ukrainian News reports.
The resolution condemns violations and infringements of human rights, acts of discrimination against residents of the annexed Crimea, including the Crimean Tatars, as well as Ukrainians and persons belonging to other ethnic and religious groups, by the Russian …