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Saakashvili announced his readiness to lead new government of Ukraine
The former President of Georgia and leader of the Rukh Novykh Syl (Movement of New Forces), Mikheil Saakashvili, has declared that Ukraine needs a new authority and a new government, which he is ready to lead, as he announced during the meeting, which was held on November 19th at Constitution Square near the Verkhovna Rada.
"Ukraine needs new power and the creation of a new government, we must create them together, I am ready to do it with you. We must find new people for the new government ... …
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Ukraine offers to share with the US its experience of ‘fighting with Russia’
In exchange for American weapons, Ukraine is ready to share with the United States "the experience of fighting against Russians," Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin said.
It was during his official visit to Canada that he made that comment in relation to the US National Security Council decision to allocate new military assistance to Kyiv.
"We need all this equipment, logistics support and training. Moreover, this is mutually beneficial. We can pass on our combat experience in fighting …
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Lawyer of detained Ukrainian journalist Sushchenko says he will be sentenced to 20 years in Russian prison
Russian courts will sentence Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko to 20 years of imprisonment, stated his lawyer Mark Feygin.
"Tomorrow, the wife and daughter of my client, Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko will arrive to visit him. This will happen on the eve of the ‘court hearings’ where he is going to be sentenced to 20 years for ‘collecting information about the alleged Russian invasion of Ukraine’ [according to investigators] in the summer and fall of 2016," Feygin wrote on Twitter. …
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Kyiv and Warsaw agree to reduce ‘black list’ of Ukrainians banned from entering Poland
Ukraine and Poland have agreed to optimize the list of Ukrainians who are banned from entering Poland. This was announced by Konstantin Eliseev, deputy head of Ukraine’s Presidential Administration, after a meeting with Krzysztof Szczerski, head of the Chancellery of the President of Poland, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
“We agreed to work together to optimize it. This will mean a significant reduction, because, in our opinion, historians and representatives of civil society should not suffer from …
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Russian citizen asks for asylum in Ukraine because of political persecution in Russia
On November 18, a Russian citizen arrived by train at the Ukrainian capital and asked for refugee status at the checkpoint "Kyiv-Passazhyrsky", as reported by the State Border Service of Ukraine.
"During the passport control procedure, the Russian woman appealed to the employees of the State Border Service of Ukraine saying that she wanted to obtain refugee status. The Russian woman said that she was an opposition activist and was being persecuted in Russia for her political views," the …