Contents tagged with Russia
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Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey launch new railroad linking to Europe and China, bypassing Russia
Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey held an official event to open a new railroad, the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars line. The new route passes through the three countries and provides passenger and freight railroad transit between Europe and China surpassing Russia and Armenia.
The opening event took place in Alat, Azerbaijan, a village in a remote part of the Baku capital suburb, 70 kilometers southeast of the city. The ceremony was attended by top leaders of Azerbaijan and Turkey and the prime ministers of …
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Washington: USA will continue to exert pressure on Russia with sanctions
The U.S. State Department explained the updated sanctions issued by the Ministry of Finance on October 31, saying that it will work with its allies on the issue of pressuring Russia with sanctions, RIA Novosti reported.
“We will work with our allies and partners in the implementation of these sanctions in order to impose costs on the Russian government, while seeking to avoid unforeseen negative impacts on others,” the State Department said.
On October 31, the U.S. Treasury Department banned …
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Russian strategic bombers carry out air strikes in Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor
Russian strategic bombers carry out air strikes in Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor
Six Tu-22M3 long-range strategic bombers flew from their bases in Russia and carried out air strikes at the targets in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor, as reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, strikes were carried out against ISIS facilities near the town of Abu Kamal.
"Six Tu-22M3 long-range strategic bombers that have taken off from the Russian territory, …
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Dzhemilev: Russia has caused billions of dollars’ worth of damage to Crimea’s ecology
Russia has caused significant damage to the ecology of annexed Crimea, as stated by the leader of the Crimean Tatar people, Mustafa Dzhemilev, at a briefing on the draft resolution of the UN Security Council on human rights in the Crimea. "Russia has violated all agreements by its actions. The ecology of the Crimea has been damaged. Groundwater dropped, the territory will require billions of dollars to rehabilitate," said Dzhemilev.
The leader of the Crimean Tatar people also noted that …
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Putin’s friend to purchase Fontanka news outlet which published revelatory material about him
Billionaire Yevgeny Prigozhin is prepared to buy the news outlet Fontanka, which recently published a series of articles about his activities, reported Novaya Gazeta with reference to its own sources.
According to the newspaper, the offer to sell Fontanka (and simultaneously Delovoy Peterburg) to Prigozhin was made by people who have no relation to the news outlet “on paper”, but “hold weight in deciding its fate”. As Novaya notes, pressure was exerted “on the level of presidential …
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Ukrainian diplomats to Russian diplomats at UN Security Council: You have no right to talk about Ukraine
The Russian Federation has neither the legal nor the moral right to talk about the situation in Ukraine in the UN Security Council until it returns the occupied territories and compensates Ukraine for the losses incurred, said Deputy Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Yuriy Vitrenko, at a UN Security Council meeting about children and armed conflict, in response to a statement by the Russian delegation about the situation in Ukraine.
“The UN General Assembly has …
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US representative for Ukraine Volker: DPR and LPR do not belong in the Donbas negotiation process
The US Department of State’s Special Representative for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, believes that representatives from the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics have no place in the negotiation process to resolve the situation in the Donbas. He expressed his opinion in an interview with Hromadske, while answering a question regarding the role of LDPR in the Minsk negotiations.
"I believe that this issue was decided; that the Minsk agreements are between Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE. The …
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Putin signs decree on unified air defense system with Belarus
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ratified the protocol to the agreement on joint protection of the airspace of the external border of the Union State and the creation of a unified regional air defense system of the Russian Federation and Belarus.
The agreement itself appeared on February 2, 2009 and the protocol was signed in Minsk on November 2, 2016. The State Duma adopted the corresponding bill on October 20, 2017 while the Russian Federation Council approved it on October 25.
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Media: Abduction of Ukrainian border guards planned by Russians for two months
The abduction of Ukrainian border guards was a Russian special operation, the Russians’ relevant conversations were recorded over the course of two months until the disappearance of Ukrainian border guards Bohdan Martson and Ihor Dziubak, Ukrayinska Pravda reports.
According to the news outlet’s sources, Ukrainians recorded the Russians’ conversations in which they were assigned the task of capturing two Ukrainian border guards.
“Precisely this fact gives the law enforcement agencies reason …
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Russian court rejects Siemens appeal to have its turbines removed from Crimea
The Ninth Arbitration Appeals Court of the Russian Federation rejected Siemens’ to appeal seize the turbines which were transported to the Russian-annexed Crimea in violation of sanctions, TASS reported.
Siemens asked to have the four SGT5-2000E gas turbines seized and to prohibit the Russian company Technopromexport or other persons from transporting, installing, operating, modifying, disassembling or otherwise using the turbines. Additionally, Siemens asked that Technopromexport be …