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Ukraine tightens entry conditions for Russians
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has brought into effect a ruling by the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) from March 1, 2018, which tightens the conditions for Russian citizens to enter Ukraine, as announced on the president’s official website.
The ruling envisages the creation of a mechanism to carry out a preliminary check on the reasons for entering Ukraine. Citizens from the list of migration risk countries, and Russia especially, will have to inform the Ukrainian …
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Russia restricts the entry of trucks at Ukrainian border
Russia has restricted the entry of trucks through the checkpoints in the Belgorod and Voronezh regions at the border with Ukraine due to software failure, State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reports.
As a result, "a backlog of freight vehicles" is recorded. There were 45 trucks at the checkpoint in the Kharkiv region, and in the Sumy region, there were 35 trucks.
A similar incident occurred in mid-February. At that time, more than a hundred trucks accumulated at the border of Russia’s …
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Russia's Gazprom to file new case in arbitration court over Ukraine’s seizure of its assets
Gazprom considers the arrest of its Ukrainian assets to be an attempt to illegally seize its property under the pretext of implementing the ruling made by the Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMKU) in 2016.
“Gazprom does not recognize the legitimacy of the fine, and considers Ukraine’s actions to be an infringement of its rights,” the company’s report states.
The Russian gas company intends to file a new case at an international arbitration court in connection with the Ukrainian …
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Kyiv seizes all assets of Russia’s Gazprom in Ukraine
All funds belonging to the Russian company, Gazprom, which were located in Ukraine, have been collected by the State, according to the Minister of Justice of Ukraine, Pavlo Petrenko, as reported by Ukrinform.
"I can say that the Justice Ministry will collect $6 billion from Gazprom in accordance with the decision of a Ukrainian court regarding a fine in our favor initiated by the Anti-Monopoly committee. We have already recovered some of the funds - an inventory of everything that Gazprom had …
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Romania joins countries that don't recognize Russian presidential elections in Crimea
Romania does not recognize the annexation of the Crimea and Russian presidential elections on the peninsula, LB.ua reports, citing the press service of the Romanian embassy.
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania reminds that it [Romania] does not recognize the illegal annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol by the Russian Federation, and therefore does not recognize the elections in this territory, and shares the position of the European Union and its …