• Putin condemns Zakharchenko's assassination

    Russian President Vladimir Putin called the death of the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko a "vile murder" and a "terror" attack.

    According to the Kremlin website, Putin considers that the Zakharchenko "killers" chose "the path of terror, violence, intimidation" and allegedly "do not want to seek a peaceful, political solution to the conflict, do not want to conduct a real dialogue with the inhabitants of the southeast [of Ukraine]".

    The Russian president believes …

  • Kremlin accuses Ukraine of assassinating DPR Head Zakharchenko

    The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the assassination of the leader of DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko a “terrorist act,” and officially accused Kyiv of his killing.

    “In Donetsk, the leader of the DPR, Zakharchenko has died as a result of a terrorist act. We have reasons to believe that the Kyiv regime is behind this murder,” said the official speaker of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

    She also officially accused the Ukrainian authorities of abandoning the Minsk …

  • Hollande: Putin threatened Poroshenko at Minsk talks

    During the Normandy Format talks in Minsk in February 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to “crush” the Ukrainian troops. This is mentioned in a memoir by former French president François Hollande titled “Lessons of Power”.

    “Poroshenko and Putin constantly raised their voices with each other. The Russian president was so worked up, that he started threatening to decisively crush his counterpart’s forces. This showed that there are Russian troops in eastern Ukraine. Putin …

  • Exodus of Russian oligarchs to Cyprus accelerates

    The demand among Russians for property in European offshore havens with the consequent acquisition of citizenship is growing, finanz.ru reports.

    Between January and August 2018, the number of applications by Russian citizens to purchase residential and commercial property in order to acquire Maltese or Cypriot citizenship rose by 40%, according to the consulting company Knight Frank.

    Cyprus’s passport program requires applicants to invest at least €2 million in the economy, of which €500,000 …

  • Ukraine adopts information reintegration strategy for the Crimea

    The Ministry of Information Policy of Ukraine expects the Cabinet of Ministers to approve the information reintegration strategy of the Crimea by November, stated the Deputy Minister of the Information Policy, Emine Dzhaparova at a press briefing.

    “Crimea will be on our agenda soon. A month or two are required to make the decision and then it will also be adopted by the government. In the end, we will work on the plan,” Dzhaparova said.

    The Deputy Minister emphasized that the reintegration …