Contents tagged with Russia
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USA: Number of troops participating in Zapad-2017 military exercises was more than declared by Russia
Washington is not afraid of a possible build-up of the Russian military presence at the borders of NATO countries after the Zapad 2017 exercises, as indicated by the Permanent Representative of the United States to NATO, Kay Bailey Hutchison, in response to questions from The Washington Post.
"I cannot say for sure, but our people have been closely watching and they have no fears," the diplomat said. She added that the exercises were a "big show." "We watched it as much as we could," …
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Poland says it thwarted cyber-attack from Russia
Polish specialists have managed to repel the hacker attack from Russia, stated Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz during the Polish radio broadcast.
"This is the third time that we have encountered a cyber-attack from Russia; fortunately, Poland has managed to repel it. The attack was committed against enterprises in Ukraine that have offices in other countries. In other European countries, they had to be blocked, but not in Poland. We managed to make sure that the attack did not …
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The National Bank of Ukraine banned new Russian banknotes with images of Crimea
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has forbidden banks, their branches, and offices to conduct operations with banknotes and coins issued by the Russian Central Bank, which depict objects located on the annexed territory, as reported on the NBU website.
The ban applies to the monetary units of the Russian Federation with maps, symbols, buildings, monuments, archeological monuments, architecture, history, landscapes and any other objects located on the territory of Ukraine occupied by Russia; …
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Builders of the Vostochny Cosmodrome go on hunger strike in Russia
Six employees of the Main Military Construction Department No. 6 (formerly Dalspetsstroy of Russia), which built the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Khabarovsk, have launched a hunger strike beginning October 13.
The builders are demanding payment for outstanding wages that they have not received since April, writes local newspaper Vostok-Media.
The employees notified law enforcement, as well as supervisory bodies and the management of the company, of the protest in advance.
"Pavel Buianovsky, …
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Kremlin: American anti-missile systems in Romania pose a threat to Russia
The United States’ deployment of missile launch systems at the anti-missile defense base in Romania violates the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Georgiy Borisenko, Director of the North America Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told RIA Novosti in an interview.
He noted that the US “has been making such claims against us for four years already, but they have presented no real evidence that we are violating anything anywhere”. “Only some pictures from Google Earth, …
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Russian ex-Finance Minister says investments in Russia fell by 7 times
The former head of the Russia Ministry of Finance and head of the Center for Strategic Research, Alexei Kudrin, said that in the recent years, including the period after the introduction of sanctions, direct foreign investment in the Russian economy declined sevenfold. Kudrin discussed this issue during the Moscow Exchange Forum 2017 in New York, RBC news agency reports.
"Foreign direct investment in our country used to reach 70 billion dollars a year before the crisis of 2009 and immediately …
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PACE fails to create working group to work on Russia’s return to the organization
The Joint Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe met on Thursday, October 12 but failed in its objective to create a working group that would explore ways to reform the Council of Europe so that Russia may rejoin, wrote representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe, Dmytro Kuleba on Facebook.
"During the meeting, they were supposed to decide on the creation of a working group that, in fact, had to …
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Russia says North Korea recognized annexation of Crimea
North Korea considers the Crimea’s accession to Russia legitimate, as stated by the Russian embassy in Pyongyang.
According to Russian diplomats, a new political atlas of the world has been published in the DPRK, in which the Crimea is painted in the same colors as Russia. The Embassy published photos to confirm it.
Employees of the Russian embassy stated that they asked the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs to comment on the map. The response they received was that "the Republic respects the …
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Putin avoided speaking about Siemens scandal during a meeting with German businessmen
The question of the Siemens turbines that were shipped to the Crimea was not raised at a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and German businessmen, as stated by the Press Secretary for the President, Dmitry Peskov, RIA Novosti reports. "The question was not brought up," was Peskov’s answer to the inquiry.
Previously, Siemens stated that two of the company's four turbines were delivered to the Crimea against its will. On July 11th, the company filed a lawsuit against …
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U.S. denies entry to a delegation of Russian General Staff heading to UN conference in New York
Members of the delegation of the General Staff of the Russian Defense Ministry, which were planning to travel to the UN headquarters to participate in the Russian-Chinese military conference, were not issued U.S. visas, as stated by the head of the main department of international military cooperation of the Defense Ministry Alexander Emelyanov, reports RIA Novosti.
On Thursday, October 12, at the United Nations, a briefing was held on the issue of the deployment of an anti-missile defense …