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Ukrainian Foreign Ministry intends to gather proof of racial discrimination against Crimean Tatars
The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine intends to gather information regarding racial discrimination against the Crimean Tatars by "authorities" in annexed Crimea, Krym.Realii reported.
Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin called on Crimean Tatars living in Crimea to pass information about cases of racial discrimination to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, including through the media.
"We need to collect and systematize all these cases in order to show that we are talking exactly about racial discrimination, …
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India launches several commercial satellites, undermining Russia's monopoly
India’s Space Agency launched 20 satellites into the Earth’s sun-synchronous orbit using one carrier and thus undermined the Russian monopoly on such launches.
The main satellite, the new Indian Cartosat-2, will take pictures of the Earth’s surface at intervals of less than a meter for use by the country's military. Among the smaller satellites there are 13 American, two Canadian, one German and one Indonesian.
As the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has reported, the PSLV carrier …
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US considers reinstating Committee for Surveillance of Russian Intelligence
The FBI will monitor the movement of Russian diplomats in the U.S.A.
The U.S. Congress is considering reviving the committee that worked during the ‘Cold War’ to monitor the actions of Russian spies, as reported by BuzzFeed.
The main task of the group will be identifying Russian spies and possible crimes related to them as well as the investigation of financial institutions working for Russian interests. Moreover, it is assumed that the FBI will monitor the movement of Russian diplomats in …
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Russian Duma warns NATO of the threat of a new Cold War
The State Duma [Parliament] of the Russian Federation adopted a statement to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and the OSCE, as well as to the national parliaments of the Balkan states, in which it warned about the possibility of starting a new ‘Cold War,’ as reported by Russia's TASS news agency.
The statement particularly notes the necessity to "intensify the dialogue in connection with the danger of the U.S. missile defense system deployment in Eastern European countries and NATO’s policy of …
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IMF predicts Russia's economy will continue to shrink
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted that Russia’s economy will continue to decline in 2016, although not as much as last year. RIA Novosti reported that this was said by the head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, at a press conference on Wednesday.
She was asked to comment on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statements that the Russian economy will grow in 2016. “Those statements might be seen as good news for Russia but we do not have a positive forecast for their economy. We …