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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 …
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Germany disturbed by Russian plans to build replica of Reichstag near Moscow
The German authorities have considered strange Russian plans to recreate a scaled-down version of the Reichstag building for war games in a Moscow suburb.
While speacking at the State Duma, Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu announced that there would be a reduced scale model of the Reichstag built in a park in the town of Kubinka near Moscow. According to the Minister, the layout is designed to help train members of the Yunarmia (the Youth Army).
"Germany would not have to build something like …
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Belarus finds solution to the gas conflict with Russia
Belarusian authorities have come to a solution on the gas conflict with Russia, the country's Minister of Energy Vladimir Potupchik reported.
According to him, now everything depends on the agreement of these terms at a “high level” and through “political decisions,” reports news agency BELTA.
“Everything that was done in this part was released to the public by Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich,” said Potupchik.He also spoke …
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Turkey continues negotiations with Russia on the purchase of S-400 missile systems
In his interview with Turkish NTV news channel, Turkish Defense Minister, Fikri Işık, confirmed that Turnkey has been conducting negotiations on the purchase of S-400 Russian air defense systems, despite its membership in NATO and the strained relationship with the Russian Federation.
Işık has confirmed reports that the military is considering the Russian systems, despite the fact that NATO is currently providing missile and air defense for the country. "Turkey has the constant need for …