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NATO concerned about the escalation in the Azov Sea
NATO is concerned that Russia is preventing Ukrainian vessels from accessing the Azov Sea, stated the Secretary-General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg before a meeting with the secretaries of Defense, reports Interfax Ukraine.
NATO is also concerned with the presence of Russia in the Crimea and their activities near the Crimean bridge.
“The situation in Ukraine, around Ukraine, in the Azov Sea, and in the Crimea is what we always discuss (with the Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko), and in these …
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Ukrainian President submits bill to extend ‘special status’ of Donbas
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is proposing to extend the law “On a special order of local self-governance in the separate regions of the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces”.
Poroshenko submitted bill No. 9153 to the Verkhovna Rada on Wednesday.
The document’s text has not yet been published on the official parliament website, but the title indicates that an amendment will be made to article 1 of the law.
The law came into force on October 18, 2014, and its first article envisaged three …
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Ukrainian nationals lead migration to Estonia
Immigrants from Ukraine received three times more temporary residence permits in Estonia than applicants from all other countries combined this year, ERR portal reports, citing the Estonian Interior Ministry.
In the first six months of this year, the Police and Border Guard Board of Estonia issued 1,268 temporary residence permits. Overall, 941 residence permits were received by citizens of Ukraine, 108 by Belarus, 95 by Russia, and another 124 by citizens of other countries.
Ukrainians also …
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Ukraine: Russia spends over one billion per year to support DPR and LPR
The so-called Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic cost Moscow over a billion dollars a year in support, stated the Minister for Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons of Ukraine, Vadym Chernysh.
"It’s like some troupe that travels around and just demonstrates that ‘we will not leave you alone.’ A humanitarian train from Russia comes to the DPR and LPR every month. However, according to our estimates, that isn’t all of it because we do not see the part that …
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Ukraine considers imposing criminal penalties for promoting ‘Russian World’ ideology
A group of deputies from the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine headed by Oleksandr Shevchenko registered a Parliament bill proposing criminal prosecution for promoting the idealogy of “Russian World”.
As stated in an explanatory note attached to the draft bill, “current Ukrainian legislation prohibits only communist and national socialist ideologies, not taking into account the promotion of the ideas of “Russian World,” which aim at destruction of Ukrainian independence.”
In connection with this, the …