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Saakashvili denies rumors of sending reconciliation letter to Poroshenko
In an interview for Strana.ua, former Odessa governor Mikheil Saakashvili refuted the claims that he had written a letter to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko with a peace offer.
Saakashvili says that he does not intend to come to a compromise with Poroshenko. “I will attack them more than ever,” he said when asked about the rumors of him coming to an agreement with Poroshenko.
The Ukrainian news outlet Insider reported earlier that Saakashvili had sent Poroshenko a letter asking for …
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Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office places 75 ex-deputies of the Crimean parliament on wanted list
The Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine’s Autonomous Republic of the Crimea reported that 75 former deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (the Supreme Council of Crimea) were put on wanted list as of December 2017, Krym.Realii reports citing the press service of the Prosecutor's Office.
The Prosecutor's Office also provided the names of 56 ex-deputies of the Crimean Verkhovna Rada against whom criminal cases have been opened.
At the same time, the Prosecutor's Office …
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria: The new Austrian government will follow the EU's policy of sanctions against Russia
The future head of the Austrian government, the current Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sebastian Kurtz, promised to adhere to the current policy regarding EU sanctions against Russia, as stated during a speech in Vienna on Saturday, December 16th, DW reports.
At the same time, his partner in the coalition, chairman of the right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria, Heinz-Christian Strache, said that he would personally prefer that sanctions against Russia be canceled, but if the majority in …
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Russia warns of intent to withdraw its officers from Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination in Donbas
Russia has warned of its intent to withdraw its officers from the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC) for issues related to the ceasefire and the stabilization along the contact line, as stated in a message from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM).
"On 14 December, the Ukrainian Armed Forces representative to the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC) in the JCCC headquarters in government-controlled Soledar (79km north of Donetsk) shared with the SMM a letter …
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Kyiv unveiled plans on the launch of Ukrainian broadcasting in Crimea
In 2018, Ukrainian authorities intend to start airing to the annexed Crimea several Ukrainian television channels and seven national radio stations, all via two towers, according to a recent post on Facebook written by Serhii Kostynskyi, a member of the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council of Ukraine.
Kostynskyi illustrated his post with a picture of the launch of broadcasting from a transmission tower in Chaplynka in Kherson oblast, not far from the Russian border. “The opening …