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President of Belarus Lukashenko: Minsk will remain a negotiation platform for Donbas
Minsk will remain a platform for negotiations on finding a peaceful solution to the conflict in the Donbas, President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko said on Sunday, Belta agency reports.
“This subject was blown out of proportion in the mass media almost to the extent of a scandal. I know this platform will remain. Do you think anybody will go to Asia to resolve European problems?” Lukashenko asked.
The President also said this was a shared opinion in Germany. “We are not taking part in the …
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Ukrainian President to be questioned in Yanukovych’s case
The Obolonsky Court of Kyiv will question the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, as a witness in the state treason case against the fugitive former President, Viktor Yanukovych, on February 21st, as reported by prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko to UNN news outlet.
Kravchenko said that, "The questioning is planned for February 21st."
Kravchenko added that on the same day, the questioning of Volodymyr Yelchenko, Ukraine’s ambassador to the UN, is also scheduled.
Previously, Poroshenko stated …
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Russia says 'Rasmussen plan’ on settlement in the Donbas must be agreed upon with separatist DPR and LPR
The plan for a settlement of the situation in the Donbas, prepared at the request of former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, will not work without the agreement with the authorities of the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR, says Aleksey Pushkov, Chair of the Russian State Duma's Committee for International Affairs. The document implies sending 20,000 soldiers from the UN contingent to eastern Ukraine.
In an interview with Deutsche Welle on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, …
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Member of Russian Night Wolves biker club affiliated with Putin denied entry into Ukraine and banned for three years
On Saturday, February 17, Ukrainian border guards refused entry to a Russian biker nicknamed “Vodyanoy" of the Night Wolves Russian motorcycle club, the Ukrainian State Border Service reports.
On Saturday, Vodyanoy arrived on a flight to Boryspil airport where law enforcement officers established that he was a member of the notorious motorcycle gang that had strong connections to Russian President Vladimir Putin. During the border control process, he was informed of the three-year ban on …
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Russia sent a letter of protest to Ukraine over the attack on the Rossotrudnichestvo building in Kyiv
The Russian Embassy sent a note of protest to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine because of the attack on Rossotrudnichestvo (Russian Center for Science and Culture) building in Kyiv and called on the authorities to bring the attackers to justice, reported the Russian diplomatic mission in Ukraine.
"We urge the Ukrainian government to provide appropriate legal assessments of the actions of the radicals, to bring the instigators and participants of the attack to justice, and to take …