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Ukraine calls for foreigners attending events in Crimea to be prosecuted
The Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Kyiv has proposed that foreigners who attend events in Crimea should be prosecuted, reported the Ukrainian regulator’s press service, citing chief prosecutor Hyunduz Mamedov, who spoke about it on July 24 at a meeting of Crimea’s law enforcement agencies on the state of crime and the detection of crimes committed on the peninsula during the first half of this year.
Mamedov reiterated that he had previously emphasized the necessity …
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Ukrainian President thanks the US for a clear stance on the Crimea
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko expressed gratitude to the United States of America for decisive rejection of the Russian annexation of Crimea and called for foreign policy partners to support the "Crimean Declaration" by the USA.
"I welcome Washington's historic statement on the non-recognition of the attempt at annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea by the Russian aggressor. This is a worthy response to the Kremlin's hybrid provocations after Helsinki. I am sincerely grateful to the …
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A group of Slovak MPs is set to visit annexed Crimea
Several deputies from Slovakia have decided to visit the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed, from Ukraine by the Russian Federation, despite the ambassador’s warning that this would violate the law, reported Slovak SME (The Slovak Spectator) news outlet.
Last week, a group of deputies, led by the independent MP Peter Marcek, announced that they are going to visit the Crimea in August. They also informed that they are planning to travel to the Crimean peninsula from Moscow.
In response, …
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Russia's Gazprom borrows pension money to pay off debt
Gazprom, which has been cut off from international capital markets as a result of a gas dispute with Ukraine, has turned to Russians’ pension savings in order to make large foreign debt repayments.
On Tuesday, for the second time since the start of the year, the Russian gas company has entered the Russian debt market and borrowed 40 billion rubles. Investors were offered three bond placements – a 15-year bond of 10 billion rubles, and two tranches of 15 billion rubles 30-year securities. …
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Yarosh’s volunteer army could become part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The Joint Forces Operation, Commander Serhiy Nayev and the main commander of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army (UVA), Dmytro Yarosh met in Kramatorsk and discussed the integration of the UVA fighters into the Armed Forces of Ukraine subject to a contract, as reported on the Facebook page of the Joint Forces Operation.
"The issues of the participation of motivated UVA fighters as part of all types of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (including as part of full unit) on contract basis (including short-term …