Contents tagged with Russia
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Russian opposition leader accuses Putin’s friend of corruption
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny published the results of a new anti-corruption investigation against restaurateur Yevgeny Prigozhin, also known as 'Putin’s chef.'
In its recent report, the Anti-corruption Foundation, founded by Navalny, exposes the cartel of Prigozhin, who, while imitating a competition, received 23 billion rubles ($ 375.3 million USD) from Russia’s state defense order budget, at least a third of which was stolen. This was reported on May 19 by Russian office of Radio …
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Russia accuses western media of interfering in its internal politics
Several American press agencies working in Russian territory have openly interfered with the country’s internal politics, announced Andrey Isayev, deputy head of the Yedinaya Rossiya (United Russia) party, as reported by Interfax.
Interfax reported that the Russian State Duma Committee on information policy presented the report regarding the compliance of the US press agencies working in Russia with national legislation. The document states that several of these agencies have openly interfered …
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Security Service of Ukraine: Russia prepared massive protests to demand Hungarian autonomy in Zakarpattia
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) claims that it has disrupted Russian provocation on behalf of the Hungarian community in Zakarpattia.
Plans were made to utilize a conference of national minorities which was supposed to be held in Ukraine between May 17 and 19, the SBU website reports.
Against the backdrop of statements about autonomy, confrontations were supposed to take place with local nationalists. Russia had also planned to bring in provocateurs to incite clashes and confrontation …
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Poroshenko and Merkel discuss possible pressure on Russia to fulfill Minsk agreements
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced that he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel had discussed a possible scenario of putting pressure on Russia to fulfill its part of the Minsk agreements, Interfax-Ukraine reported.
“A significant portion of time was devoted to the coordination of actions to implement the Minsk agreements. It was established that Russia is not fulfilling the Minsk agreements, and we have to develop a scenario which would motivate Russia to sit at the negotiation …
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Kremlin: Russian Army will be equipped with new ‘intelligent weapons’ by 2025
By 2025, Russia will complete the work on building intelligent weapons, developing new robots and drones. By that time, the space group should be also upgraded, as stated by the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin on “Saturday News" program of “Russia 1" television channel.
According to him, these plans are part of the state armament program. Rogozin called it “innovative” and explained that the program includes new approaches.
"First of all, it is the creation of intelligent weapons, …
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Russia submits a dispute claim against Ukraine to the WTO
Russia has submitted a dispute case to the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement body in connection with the sanctions imposed by Ukraine. This was reported by the head of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, Maxim Oreshkin, on Saturday, May 20. "The Russian mission to the WTO in Geneva sent a request to the WTO dispute settlement body and the Government of Ukraine for consultations in connection with the constant restrictions being imposed since 2014, including prohibitions, …
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Media: Ukraine will impose duties on chocolate from Russia
Imports of Russian chocolate to Ukraine will be allowed only if 31.33% of the owed anti-dumping duty is paid.
According to Evropeyskaya Pravda, the Interdepartmental Commission for International Trade decided to introduce anti-dumping duties against chocolate and other cocoa products produced in Russia. The publication’s sources said that the duties will be imposed for five years.
According to the source, the commission also refused to extend the special measures applied to the imports on …
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Russia: it is clear that the US can strike at will in Syria
The statement by the American officials that the US will not repeat the attacks on Syria if there is no threat to the American forces shows that the Pentagon has reserved the right to do so at any time, as stated by the First Deputy of the Federation Council on Defense and Security Committee, Franz Klintsevich, to journalists.
"Any military person will tell you that the term ' threat ' has a broad interpretation. This means that the Americans reserve the right to hit Syria at any time. The …
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Russian Foreign Minister: The US didn’t warn Russia about the airstrike on Assad’s forces
The United States did not warn Russia about the attack on the Syrian government forces in the south of the country which took place on May 18. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in his interview with the journalists following the session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.
"We are still confirming all the details of this strike, but according to some reports, several dozen civilians have died as a result of it", said Lavrov.
The Minister said that …
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Ukraine will appeal the decision on 'Yanukovych’s debt' on June 10
On June 10, the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine will appeal the High Court of London’s decision on the Russian Federation’s suit against Ukraine regarding Eurobonds worth $3 billion.
This was announced to journalists by Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
Danylyuk specified that this date corresponded with what had been previously planned and added that it might only be pushed back for one day at the most.
On March 29, the High Court of London considered …