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Media: Turkish ship ran aground on the Crimean Peninsula
On the morning of March 12th, the Turkish dry cargo ship, River Eregli, ran aground near the coast in Alupka. The vessel was sailing under the flag of Micronesia, as reported by the monitoring group of the Maidan of Foreign Affairs and BSNews.
"The incident occurred in quiet weather. This suggests that the vessel's engine stopped working. However, another option is possible – that the dry cargo ship has not had its AIS transmitter on since the end of November 2016. The last known location of …
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The Supreme Council of Justice allowed for Ukrainian judge to be arrested
The Supreme Council of Justice granted the request of the General Prosecutor’s Office to detain a judge from the Suvorov District Court of Odessa city, Konstantin Bobovsky, Hromadske reported. The Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s Office suspects him of extorting bribes from defendants in a case to which he is assigned.
The Prosecutor’s Office believes that the judge can exert pressure on witnesses and use his contacts in law enforcement agencies in order to avoid justice. In addition, they …
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Military Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine: Russia gave a bogus address for Yanukovych
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office gave the Ukrainian prosecutor a bogus residential address for former president Viktor Yanukovych as stated by Ruslan Kravchenko, Prosecutor of the Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine (PGO), while on air with 112 Ukraine TV Channel.
“The Russian Prosecutor’s General Office gave us a bogus residential address for the suspected individual, Yanukovych,” he said.
“After that we sent requests to all the possible residential addresses and whereabouts …
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One of the founders of the DPR, Vladimir Makovich, died
One of the founders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Vladimir Makovich, has died in Donetsk, as was reported on his Facebook page by the former Deputy Foreign Minister of the DPR, Boris Borisov.
Interfax cited the head of the News Front agency, Konstantin Knyrik, in reporting that the cause of death was a heart attack.
In April 2014, Makovich read the declaration on the statehood of the independent republic. In July of the same year he served as a speaker of the Supreme …
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Russia announces its candidate for Eurovision 2017 in Ukraine
Singer Yulia Samoylova will represent Russian in the singing contest Eurovision 2017, which will be held in the Ukrainian capital in May. This was reported on Sunday, March 12, on Channel One Russia. Samoylova will sing the song “Flame is Burning.” Because she is disabled, the singer is confined to a wheelchair.
Disabled performers have participated before in Eurovision. In 2015, Polish singer Monika Kuszynska, confined to a wheelchair like Samoylova, sang in Vienna. Before that, in 2008, …