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Russia extends Mongolia a 100 billion ruble loan
Representatives of Russia and Mongolia held talks on economic cooperation.
According to the head of the Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tsendiyn Munkh-Orgil, the Russian side promised to provide the country a preferential short term loan in the amount of 100 billion rubles.
“The Mongolian side adheres to the position of the joint implementation of major infrastructure, energy projects, as well as for the Ulan Bator Railway from the preferential credit of the Russian Federation,” said …
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Merkel's ally: NATO should confront Russia from a position of strength
Germany must increase defense expenditures to be able to, jointly with its NATO allies, oppose Russia from a position of strength, Chairman of the Christian Democrats Party in the Bundestag Volker Kauder said, Deutsche Welle reported.
“Unfortunately, Russia under President Putin is trying to destabilize Europe every day. It must be opposed from a position of strength, but this does not mean going back to the ‘Cold War,’” said Kauder.
He further noted that German increases in defense …
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Chubarov: The liberation of the Donbas and the Crimea are not separate issues
The matter of the liberation of the Crimea and the libaration of the Donbas must not be separated from each other; a single formula for recovering the territorial integrity of Ukraine is needed, as stated by MP Refat Chubarov, Leader of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, while speaking at the international forum “Crimea under occupation: consequences for Ukraine and the world”.
“Unfortunately, another direction has been imposed on us, and we – I mean Ukraine – have gone in this direction: …
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SBU: Russia is sending billions of rubles to separatist republics in Eastern Ukraine
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) made a statement that Russia is financing the self-proclaimed LPR (Luhasnk Peple's Republic) and DPR (Donetsk People's Republic), and that the extent of the aid is calculated to be billions of rubles.
So far the SBU has inspected channels of such financing within a number of previously opened criminal proceedings. According to authorities, the LNR alone is anticipating revenues of more than 11 billion rubles ($190 mln USD) in the first quarter of 2017, …
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Dzhemilev warns that Crimea may turn into a deserted peninsula
Mustafa Dzemilev, one of the leaders of the Crimean Tatars and an MP from the Petro Poroshenko faction said on 112 Ukraine TV that the retaking of the Crimea through military force would entail ethnic cleansing and make the peninsula uninhabitable.
"We very much hope that the sanctions imposed against the occupier will be strengthened and that it will force him to leave the occupied territories. We now see the other way, the military way, as hopeless. This would entail ethnic cleansing. And if …