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PACE fails to create working group to work on Russia’s return to the organization
The Joint Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe met on Thursday, October 12 but failed in its objective to create a working group that would explore ways to reform the Council of Europe so that Russia may rejoin, wrote representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe, Dmytro Kuleba on Facebook.
"During the meeting, they were supposed to decide on the creation of a working group that, in fact, had to …
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Russia says North Korea recognized annexation of Crimea
North Korea considers the Crimea’s accession to Russia legitimate, as stated by the Russian embassy in Pyongyang.
According to Russian diplomats, a new political atlas of the world has been published in the DPRK, in which the Crimea is painted in the same colors as Russia. The Embassy published photos to confirm it.
Employees of the Russian embassy stated that they asked the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs to comment on the map. The response they received was that "the Republic respects the …
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Putin avoided speaking about Siemens scandal during a meeting with German businessmen
The question of the Siemens turbines that were shipped to the Crimea was not raised at a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and German businessmen, as stated by the Press Secretary for the President, Dmitry Peskov, RIA Novosti reports. "The question was not brought up," was Peskov’s answer to the inquiry.
Previously, Siemens stated that two of the company's four turbines were delivered to the Crimea against its will. On July 11th, the company filed a lawsuit against …
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U.S. denies entry to a delegation of Russian General Staff heading to UN conference in New York
Members of the delegation of the General Staff of the Russian Defense Ministry, which were planning to travel to the UN headquarters to participate in the Russian-Chinese military conference, were not issued U.S. visas, as stated by the head of the main department of international military cooperation of the Defense Ministry Alexander Emelyanov, reports RIA Novosti.
On Thursday, October 12, at the United Nations, a briefing was held on the issue of the deployment of an anti-missile defense …
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Poland denies Russia’s accusations of 2nd US tank brigade being deployed in the country
Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz denied the Russian Defense Ministry’s accusations that a US tank brigade had been deployed in Poland on the quiet, Polish news agency Rzeczpospolita reports.
“It is simply an untrue and misleading representation of the situation,” Macierewicz said at a press-conference in the Polish Cultural Center in London. He also said that the Russian Defense Ministry’s position is “not serious”.
Macierewicz said that he thought “the Russian Defense Ministry was …