Contents tagged with Russia
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Ariev: In January’s PACE session, Ukraine will demand the release of illegally detained Ukrainians
Volodymyr Ariev, the Ukrainian chairman of the permanent delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), said that the discussion topics in this January’s PACE session in Strasbourg would be the illegal detention of Ukrainians (journalist Roman Sushchenko, filmmaker Oleg Sentsov) in the Russian Federation and the persecution in the occupied Crimea of the journalist Nikolai Semena and the Crimean Tatar media.
January’s PACE session in Strasbourg will take place from …
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Media report that a NATO aircraft flew extremely close to a Russian airliner near the Kuril Islands
A military aircraft, presumably from a NATO country, approached a Russian passenger airliner which was flying from Sakhalin to the Kuril Islands. This was reported to Interfax by a source in law enforcement agencies.
"The night before last, the Russian Bombardier airliner departed from Sakhalin and, having ascended about six thousand meters, headed for the Kurils. However, the dispatchers detected an unidentified aircraft approaching the liner at the same altitude, which did not respond to …
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Kerry claims that the United States spent more than $3 billion on countering Russian aggression
The U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, stated at a recent press conference that the United States has been consistent in the support of its allies and partners in Europe against the background of threats which emerged from the outbreak of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, and that the U.S. had spent more than $3 billion on this support, Ukrinform reported.
“We strongly advocated for and supported Ukraine in transatlantic space. We responded to Russian provocations by extending support to …
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Kyiv responds to Ukrainian oligarch’s suggestion to compromise with Russia
One of the richest and most influential Ukrainians, oligarch Victor Pinchuk, published an article in the Wall Street Journal in which he suggested that Ukrainians have to “make painful compromises for peace with Russia” .
What are these “painful” compromises?
Pinchuk acknowledges that Ukraine should be able to choose its future, and Russia has to fulfill its obligations under the Minsk agreements ensuring the ceasefire and the withdrawal of its troops from the Donbas.
“But this can be part …
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McCain: Russia carried out cyber-attacks due to U.S. leniency on Russia's aggressive foreign policy
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Republican John McCain at a Committee hearing dedicated to cyber threats for the United States, mainly from Russia said that “the United State’s leniency on the Russian Federation’s aggressive foreign policy is what prompted the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to order cyber-attacks, intending to intervene in the presidential elections.
"We should not be surprised that Vladimir Putin could have thought that he would be able to carry …
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Russia is ready to supply the Philippines with advanced weapons
Russia is ready to supply the Philippines with advanced weaponry, including submarines and aircraft, as stated by the Russian Ambassador in Manilla, Igor Anatolyevich Khovaev, Reuters reported.
Speaking during the visit of two Russian naval vessels to Manila, Khovaev stated that Russia hopes to become a “close friend” to the Philippines, a traditional U.S. ally.
"It's not a choice between these partners and those ones. Diversification means preserving and keeping old traditional partners and …
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150 foreign vessels illegally entered Crimean ports in 2016
During 2016, 150 merchant vessels, flying the flags of 49 foreign countries, entered ports of the occupied Crimea – Yevpatoria, Sevastopol, Yalta, Feodosia, and Kerch – violating bans and sanctions, as demonstrated by the monitoring of the information portal, BSNews, which uses an AIS (automatic identification system) vessel tracking system.
In 2016, another 40 vessels that violated the policies of the occupied territory for the first time were added to the list of old violators, which entered …
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Naftogaz head: Ukraine needs a European company to manage its gas transport system
To keep its status as a transit country, Ukraine needs to get a European company to manage its natural gas transportation system, the head of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine, Andriy Kobolyev proposed.
"The ultimate goal of the process of creating a separate GTS operator is to involve a European company... that has its own interests. In fact we want to share a part of our business to make them help us guarantee that transit through the territory of Ukraine will remain after 2019," he said on Channel 5 …
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The new head of the OSCE is dissatisfied with the situation in eastern Ukraine
The Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Sebastian Kurtz, during his visit to the Donbas, said that the Organization is not satisfied with the current situation in eastern Ukraine, where the armed conflict continues after more than two years.
He stressed that the OSCE is committed, "to step up the efforts to improve the situation," and in order to do so, Austria will allocate an additional 2 million euro for humanitarian aid to the residents of the Donetsk and …
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Poltorak claimed that Ukraine intends to hold regular missile exercises in the Black sea
Ukraine is planning to hold regular missile firing exercises in the Black Sea, Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak said in an interview with Channel 5.
"I consider these exercises as very good and necessary. We are not going to ask anyone which exercises we should hold in our own territory. They will be held as regularly as needed,” Poltorak stated.
According to the Minister, Russian authorities reacted strongly to the exercises held by Ukraine. He added that the Defense Ministry was ready to …