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Observers document violations in Russian presidential elections
Observers at the Russian presidential elections have reported numerous violations at the voting sites, Deutsche Welle writes.
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, whose application to register as a candidate in the elections was rejected, gathered more than 33,000 observers for the elections. His observers report that the most typical violation was the transportation of people in vehicles for mass voting.
At one site in the Moscow province, buses brought in staff of Russia’s National …
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Ukraine expels journalist of TV channel Russia-24
Officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained and deported to Russia the journalist of Russia-24 TV channel, Natalia Goncharova. According to SBU’s statement, she was preparing to shoot an anti-Ukrainian video showing an untrue image of Ukraine, misinforming the audience and harming the international image of Ukraine.
SBU states that the journalist “was preparing a media provocation about the Russian presidential elections in Ukraine”. Goncharova was banned entry to Ukraine for …
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Attempt on Skripal threatens Gazprom’s business in the UK
The attempt on the life of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in the British town of Salisbury threatens Gazprom’s business in the UK, the Russian edition of DW writes.
The publication notes that Britain is Russia’s fourth largest gas export market. Moscow has considered the country one of the most promising and important for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project.
British Prime Minister Theresa May, speaking on March 14 in Parliament in response to the poisoning of Skripal and his daughter, also …
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Ukrainian President calls on the West to boycott the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia
In an interview with the German news agency Funke Mediengruppe, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called on western countries to toughen the sanctions against the Russian Federation and boycott the FIFA World Cup which will take place in Russia on July 14, 2018, DW reports.
Poroshenko said he counted on the support of the new German Government. "I expect that all the coalition partners in Germany will stand for the freedom, democracy and territorial integrity of Ukraine," he said. …
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Russia says it knows about American plans to strike Syria
The United States deployed in the Mediterranean, Red Sea and the Persian Gulf warships carrying cruise missiles for possible strikes on the targets in Syria, stated the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Interfax reports.
According to the Head of the Russian General Staff Main Operations Department, Sergey Rudskoy, the United States may strike the facilities of the Syrian government and Syrian troops after accusing Assad of using chemical weapons.
The Washington Post in early March …