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Aksyonov blames high prices in Crimea on 'speculators'
The Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Russian Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, explained that the high prices on medicines and food products in the Crimean peninsula are being driven by speculators. The prices are 30-40% higher than in adjacent Russian regions: Krasnodar and Rostov.
“The prices on food products in specific areas are 40% higher than in the Krasnodar region. The price on pasta products is 46% higher. There are concerns of speculation in half of these cases, a parasitic …
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Russian military maintains significant presence at its airbase in Syria
According to the American intelligence and analytical center “Stratfor”, Russia maintains a significant presence at the Khmeimim airbase in Syria, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that the majority of Russian forces would be withdrawn from the war-torn country.
According to satellite images, the airbase in Latakia is currently home to 24 Russian aircraft, including 12 Su-24s, four Su-30s, four Su-34s, and four Su-35s.
Following Putin’s announcement of a withdrawal from …
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Russian special forces officer killed in Syria
A Russian special forces officer was killed in Syria on Thursday near the city of Palmyra, RIA Novosti reported.
"Near the village of Tadmor, in the performance of a specific task to provide targets for Russian airstrikes against IS [the so-called Islamic State] an officer of the Russian special forces was killed," a representative of the Russian military stated.
The special forces officer was tasked with carrying out a reconnaissance mission to provide coordinates of positions of the so- …
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Ukraine begins criminal proceedings against Russian prosecutors and judges over Savchenko case
The Prosecutor General’s office of Ukraine has initiated a criminal case against the judges of the Donetsk City Court in the Rostov region and the the Russian prosecutors involved in Nadiya Savchenko’s case, as stated by the Prosecutor, Vladislav Kutsenko, on the TV channel 112 Ukraine.According to him, Russian prosecutors Pavel Filipchuk, Dmitry Yunoshev and Vladislav Kuznetsov, are being investigated for "unlawfully bringing someone to criminal responsibility,” and against Leonid Stepanenko, …
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Kiev accuses separatists of blocking the exchange of prisoners
During the meeting of the humanitarian subgroup of Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk on Wednesday, March 23rd, representatives of the self-proclaimed republics of the Donbas were "debating absolutely destructively," said a spokeswoman for Ukraine, MP Iryna Herashchenko, as reported by Deutsche Welle. "They, yet again, artificially understate the number of hostages on their territories. We are painstakingly collecting information about the locations of prisoners, whom neither the mission of the …