Contents tagged with Russia
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Russia intends to consider the possibility of cryptocurrency payments in the Crimea to secure the anonymity of foreign tourists
The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation has expressed its readiness to consider the issue of making payments using cryptocurrency in the Republic of Crimea with an aim to attract foreign tourists, as announced on Saturday by Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev on Russia-24 news. He clarified that there were no serious discussions on this question yet.
"To stimulate foreign tourism in the Crimea, and to ensure that people who go there are not persecuted in their homeland for having …
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Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs: Ukraine demands investigation of supply of Siemens turbines to Crimea
Ukraine will demand that the German government and the European Union investigate and punish all perpetrators involved in the delivery of Siemens turbines to power plants in the annexed Crimea, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin, wrote in an article for the Evropeiska Pravda.
“The only way out is a frank and public investigation and punishment of all accomplices - legal, political and reputational. This is exactly what Ukraine will demand from Siemens, the German …
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Pentagon doubts that Turkey would purchase S-400 missile systems from Russia
The reports on Turkey's purchase of Russian S-400 air defense missile systems (ADMS) are false, according to General Joseph Dunford, the US Army Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a security conference in the city of Aspen. The video of the speech was posted on YouTube.
According to Dunford, the US pays great attention to relations with Turkey. “I've been to Turkey about 12 times over the past year,” he said. The General stressed that relations with Turkey are “critical” for the US, …
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Germany: Scandal with Siemens turbines in Crimea will lead to deterioration of Russian-German relations
The German government has said that Moscow's deception, bringing gas turbines made by the German company Siemens from Russia to the Crimea, despite its prohibition under EU sanctions and in violation of its contracts, will lead to further deterioration of relations between the two countries.
"Such a massive violation of sanctions will again burden German-Russian relations," the spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry told the German publication Bild am Sonntag.
It has been reported that …
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U.S. special envoy calls conflict in Donbas ‘hot war’
After visiting Adviivka in the Donbas, the US State Department’s special representative on Ukraine, Kurt Volker called Ukraine a “flourishing state” which is undergoing a terrible tragedy. He called the conflict in Eastern Ukraine a “hot war”.
“Our primary task is to restore the integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine. As I understood, this is not a frozen conflict, but a hot war. And the cost is dangerously high – human lives,” the press center of the Ukrainian Armed Forces cited Volker as …
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Head of SBU: Ukraine provided the UN proof of Russia’s involvement in the conflict in the Donbas
Ukraine has provided thousands of pages of documentary evidence of Russia's participation in the conflict in the Donbas to the International Court of Justice, as stated by the head of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), Vasyl Hrytsak, at a briefing on Saturday. The suit itself was filed in mid-January, and in April Ukraine failed to achieve the approval of special measures against Russia in time for the suit’s consideration.
"All of you know that in January, Ukraine initiated a suit in the …
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Moldovan President: certain forces in the West are interested in involving Russia in the conflict in Transnistria
The escalation of the conflict in Transnistria benefits Western forces who may wish to involve Russia in the crisis. This opinion was voiced on Saturday by Moldovan President Igor Dodon on Rossiya 24 TV channel.
“The destabilization of the situation in this region would be interesting for someone in the West trying to drag Russia into some kind of conflict here. But I, as the President of the Republic of Moldova, will do everything possible to ensure that there is no destabilization,” he said. …
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Mother of the Russian soldier captured in the Donbas was allowed to visit him in Ukraine
Pavel Kanygin, a journalist from the Russian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, published a photo on his Facebook page of Russian serviceman, Victor Ageyev, who has been detained in the Donbas, with his mother. In addition, the correspondent relayed the details of the meeting between Ageyev and his mother.
“Svetlana Ageyeva submitted an application asking to see her son and was able to meet with him. At first, she saw her son in the presence of journalists, along with me were a few colleagues from …
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Ukrainian Minister of Defense: Russia can use the forthcoming Zapad-2017 military exercises to invade any European country
Ukrainian Minister of Defense Stepan Poltorak claims that the joint Russian-Belarusian military exercise Zapad 2017 scheduled for September could be used by Russia to stage an actual invasion of any neighboring country.
"Ukraine and the world have a common vision of the prospects for the exercise conducted by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The forthcoming West-2017 exercises will be extremely powerful. They could be used to launch an aggressive action not only against Ukraine but …
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German media: in 2016 Putin promised not to use Siemens turbines in the Crimea
In September 2016, during a meeting in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised then Vice-Chancellor and current German Foreign Minister, Sigmar Gabriel, that Siemens turbines would not be sent to the Crimea, writes German publication Wirtschaftswoche , citing sources close to Gabriel.
According to this information, in addition to the two politicians, German Ambassador to Russia Rüdiger von Fritsch and representatives of the Russian president also attended the meeting. According to …