Contents tagged with Russia
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Media: Russian biker club Night Wolves denied presidential grant
A coordinating committee for the distribution of presidential grants has rejected all three applications for a grant to pay for a project to be completed by the Night Wolves Russian motorcycle club, as reported by Kommersant.
According to the publication, two grant applications were not submitted for consideration at all.
The Night Wolves motorcycle organization of the Izmaylovo District in Moscow was not able to substantiate the need for the "Your Russia" project, which would create a …
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Russian authorities do not allow American diplomats to remove their belongings from the property seized by Russia
American diplomats in Russia could not get into the embassy house in the Serebryany Bor for two days, as stated by the US diplomatic mission, Interfax reports.
“That's right, we were denied access, both yesterday and today,” said Maria Olson, the Press Secretary of the Embassy in response to the request to confirm the messages that US representatives cannot get into the building.
She added that the diplomatic mission staff couldn’t get into the dacha to pick up their personal things left …
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Ukraine prepares lawsuit against Russia for murder of 17 year-old Ukrainian by separatist commander
The Ukrainian government intends to file a lawsuit against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in connection with the murder of 17 year-old Stepan Chubenko, goalkeeper for the Avanhard Kramatorsk football club, in June 2014.
A statement to this effect was made by Deputy Prosecutor General Yevgeny Enin on Facebook, in a comment regarding Russia’s release of Vadim Pogodin, one of the murderers and commander of the illegal armed group “Kerch”.
“The Prosecutor General’s Office of …
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Romanian Foreign Minister accuses Russian Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin of deliberately creating problems between countries
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin tried to cross the Romanian air border to demonstrate that sanctions do not work, Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu said.
“In my opinion, the whole issue with the flight over Romania was a deliberate attempt to create problems between Romania and Russia,” he said on Monday on the Romanian television channel Antena 3.
Melescanu also said that the lives of passengers on board the aircraft were not in any danger.
The head of the Romanian …
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Russia released the commander of the DPR suspected of murdering a 16-year-old Ukrainian
Russian security forces released Vadim Pogodin, the former commander of the Kerch battalion of the DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic). He is suspected of murdering Stepan Chubenko, a 16-year-old resident of Kramatorsk, as well as of other murders and robberies in the Donbas.
Pogodin was arrested on June 20 in Yalta at the request of the Ukrainian Interpol National Central Bureau. According to one of his supporters who writes on Facebook under the name of Ioann Semenov, Ukrainian law enforcement …
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Putin: Russia-US relations will not change anytime soon
For the longest time, Russia had hoped for positive changes in relations with the US, before introducing new measures against Washington, stated Russian President Vladimir Putin, Vesti.Ru reports.
"We waited for quite some time that maybe something will change for the better, had such hope that the situation will somehow change. However, judging by everything, if it changes, it will not be soon," the Russian leader said.
Putin noted that he considered it necessary to show that Russia "will no …
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Media: the USA is preparing a response to the expulsion of American diplomats from Russia
Washington regrets Moscow’s decision to reduce the staff of American diplomatic missions in Russia and is considering a response, as stated to RIA Novosti by a U.S. State Department representative.
"This unjustified measure is regrettable. We are estimating the impact of this reduction and how to respond to it. There are no other comments at this time," the U.S. State Department representative said.
Russia responded to the passing of a new sanctions bill by the U.S. Congress by demanding a …
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Media: Russia prepares to respond to demolition of Soviet monuments in Poland
Russia is preparing an “asymmetric” response in answer to the adoption by Polish authorities of a law on de-communization, which provides for the taking down of monuments to Soviet soldiers in the country, reports the newspaper Izvestia. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia said that the “unfriendly actions of Warsaw will, in any case, not remain without consequences.”
Several options are considered, including personal sanctions against Polish politicians involved in drafting of the law, …
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Russia bans internet anonymizers
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law banning the use of tools to bypass blocked internet access. The decree has been published on the official Internet portal for legal information.
The State Duma adopted the package of amendments on July 21, which was approved by the Federation Council on July 25. According to the document, the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs will have the right to find so-called anonymizers – services through which an internet user can access sites that …
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Putin signs law on visitor's tax for the Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that would impose a fee for the use of resort infrastructure in three regions of Russia and the annexed Crimea.
The corresponding document is published on the Russian Federation's portal for legal information.
It says that an "experiment on the development of resort infrastructure" will be carried out in these regions through December 31, 2022.
Payers of the fee will be physical persons who have reached the age of majority and who are living …