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Russia bans several Lithuanian politicians from entering the country
Moscow has made a so-called "stop list" with names of politicians, deputies and political scientists from Lithuania, the Russian Foreign Ministry reports.
List figurants are prohibited from entering Russia. The Russian Ministry has called its decision to take such a step a response to Vilnius’ adoption of an analogue to the American Magnitsky Act.
The names of officials are not specified in the Russian Ministry’s statement.
"We warn that the Russian ‘stop-list’ remains open. In the case of …
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Ukrainian MP: Russia’s Kerch Bridge to Crimea should be given to Ukraine
Refat Chubarov, Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, stated in an interview with the Obozrevatel news outlet that Russia should hand over the Crimean bridge “as contribution” to a special “international consortium” which should be established to operate the bridge.
“As the country that annexed Crimea, Russia should hand over the Crimean Bridge as a contribution to the international consortium for damage caused [to Ukraine],” Chubarov stated. “The transfer agreement should contain measures …
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US Treasury Department: Reduction in Deripaska’s share in his company not sufficient to exclude it from sanctions list
"A reduction in the share of ownership [of the company] by a person under sanctions is not necessarily a basis for excluding [the company] from the sanctions list," RBC news agency reports, citing an official US Treasury Department spokesperson.
According to the source, OFAC (the Office for Foreign Assets Control, a subdivision of the Treasury Department) "conducts a thorough analysis of the facts and circumstances of each request for exclusion [from the sanctions list) and does not discuss …
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Putin orders World Atlas to be rewritten
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russian names on the world's maps are being replaced by foreign ones and encouraged people to not condone the "distortion of geographical truth."
"Today, we are faced with a situation where Russian names, which our researchers and travelers gave in the past centuries and decades, are gradually being ousted from the world map," Putin said during a speech at the meeting of the Russian Geographical Society's (RGO) Board of Trustees, quotes Interfax.
The …
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Ukraine holds large-scale exercises near the Russian border
Ukraine held this year’s largest tactical-special exercises of the Armed Forces at a training area on the coast of the Azov Sea. The exercises involved artillery, aviation, and armored and wheeled vehicles, and is the largest-scale exercise of the year to-date, the Minister of Defense’s press service reported.
“According to the plan of the exercises, the imagined enemy violating peace agreements used the newest landing ships, overcame the resistance of the State Border Service of Ukraine and …