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Ukraine condemns the sentence of Ukrainian activist Balukh in the annexed Crimea
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (MFA) voiced their protest to the “sentencing” by the Razdolnenskiy “District Court” in the annexed Crimea of Ukrainian activist Volodymyr Balukh, Ukrainian MFA press service reports.
“Having condemned the Ukrainian under a fabricated pretext during an almost four year imprisonment solely for his civil position and peaceful resistance to the illegal annexation of his native land, Russia once again demonstrated to the world its cynical disregard for …
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EU imposes sanctions against the Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia and Russian partners of Siemens over supply of turbines to Crimea
Russian Deputy Energy Minister Andrei Cherezov has been subject to EU sanctions in connection with the situation of the supply of Siemens turbines to the annexed Crimea, according to Council of the European Union materials published on August 4.
Also included in the list are the head of Technopromexport, Sergei Topor-Gilka, and a department head at the Ministry of Energy, Evgeny Grabchak.
Russian partners of Siemens, Technopromexport, Interavtomatika, and participants in the construction of …
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Kyiv considers introducing criminal penalties for illegal border crossing from Russia
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has registered a draft law on amending the Criminal Code of Ukraine regarding responsibility for illegal crossing of the state border (No. 7017). The text of the bill is posted on the parliament's website. Its authors are the leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity" faction, Arthur Gerasimov and the Deputy Chairman of the faction, Presidential Representative in the Parliament, Iryna Lutsenko.
The draft law proposes that the Criminal Code of Ukraine be …
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Media: Russia to limit gas transit through Ukrainian territory
Russia is restricting the transit of gas through Ukrainian territory, and will soon exclude its western neighbor from the process of transporting natural gas to western countries, Vedomosti reports.
Vedomosti claims that Gazprom has reduced the flow of gas through Ukrainian territory and has simultaneously increased it in the OPAL pipeline. Recently the European Commission approved the use of 40% of the capacity of the gas pipeline.
According to the opinion of Russian experts, Moscow is …
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Turchynov: Russian and North Korean regimes are becoming more alike
In his comment on the introduction of the new US anti-Russian sanctions, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksandr Turchynov said that he believes the regimes of Russia and North Korea are becoming more similar to each other, and that the world is beginning to understand this, as reported on the website of the National Security and Defense Council reports.
"It is symbolic that in the Bill imposing sanctions, which was passed by the Congress, supported by the …