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Imprisoned filmmaker Oleh Sentsov in catastrophic condition
Ukrainian political prisoner Oleh Sentsov, who has been starving for three months already in a Russian prison in Labytnangi, is in a critical condition, his cousin Natalya Kaplan posted on Facebook.
“Everything isn’t just bad, everything is catastrophically bad. Oleh sent me a letter through his lawyer, he can barely stand up. He said that the end is near, and he doesn’t mean release. He asks whether anyone is still interested in his hunger strike, they don’t pass on any letters to him, none! …
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Pentagon asserts its unquestionable strength to deter Russia’s hypersonic weapons
The USA’s ability to counter Russia’s hypersonic weapons is unquestionable despite the claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin made while presenting new Russia’s hypersonic weapons in March, stated John Hyten, Commander of United States Strategic Command during a Space & Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, CNBC reports.
“Guess what? He [Vladimir Putin] still can't find our submarines, he still can't take out 400 missile fields across the country, he still can't do anything about …
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Russian opposition leader Navalny announces all-Russian protest against pension reform
On Tuesday August 7, Russian opposition leader and founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) Alexei Navalny announced that he plans to hold an all-Russian protest on September 9, against raising the retirement age.
On the same day, the election of mayor is to be held in Moscow as well as the election of the constituent heads of the Russian Federation’s subjects in 25 other regions. “There are no restrictions on carrying out protests on Election Day,” Navalny explained. “We want everyone …
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11 countries accuse Russia of invading Georgia in 2008
On August 7, the informal group of Friends of Georgia in the OSCE issued a joint statement dedicated to the 10th anniversary of Russia’s military invasion of Georgia. The authors of the statement urged Russia "to reverse its recognition of the so-called independence of Georgia’s Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions."
The text was signed by the USA, Great Britain, Canada, Lithuania, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Sweden and Ukraine. The signatories also called upon Moscow "to …
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First Nord Stream 2 pipes laid in Germany
The first pipes have been laid as part of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project near the German coast of the Baltic Sea, reported the German company Uniper, one of the European partners of Gazprom. The project was started in late July, said Uniper’s financial director Christopher Delbruck in a presentation the company’s website.
The Nord Stream 2 pipeline will pass along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, for more than 1,200 kilometers and with a capacity of 55 billion cubic meters. The cost of …