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Russian gas giant Gazprom offers Ukraine to forget the past and start from scratch
Russian gas giant Gazprom offered Ukrainian company Naftogaz to use a so-called "zero option" in terms of finances and verdicts of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.
"The zero option is the absence of mutual claims from the finance point of view," said Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak as cited by RIA Novosti. Novak proposed this option at the end of the trilateral negotiations on gas in Brussels.
According to Novak, Russia believes that the relationship …
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Russian military experts arrive in Venezuela
A group of Russian military experts arrived in the capital of Venezuela, Caracas, reports Interfax. Military experts flew to Venezuela for planned maintenance and repair of military equipment that was delivered earlier as part of military-technical cooperation of the two countries.
Earlier, Flightradar24 air traffic monitoring service reported that Russian Il-62M aircraft landed in Caracas. According to these reports, Antonov An-124 Ruslan aircraft also arrived in Venezuela. Both planes …
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Putin promises Maduro support and assistance
Russian President Vladimir Putin assured his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro of Moscow’s full support in the struggle for power in Venezuela, and promised him continued assistance.
“Russia consistently supports all of Venezuela’s legitimate organs of government, including the institution of the president and parliament,” Putin said during the meeting with Maduro in Moscow, as cited by Deutsche Welle. He also expressed his support for dialog between Maduro and Venezuelan opposition leader …
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Poland refuses to extradite to Russia fugitive banker because of his membership with Jehovah's Witnesses
Belsky Regional Court (Poland) refused to extradite Probusinessbank's former Vice-President Yaroslav Alekseev, reports TVP news outlet.
The court ruled that Alekseev's extradition to Russia is "legally inadmissible" under Polish and international law. Judge Teresa Jędrzejas noted that it is also a possible violation of the rights of the accused in his homeland. According to human rights activists, detainees in Russia are subjected to torture and humiliation. She noted that Alekseev is a member …
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Belarus finds new ‘big brother’ instead of Russia
By the end of 2019, Belarus plans to sign a credit agreement with the China Development Bank to replace the loan it did not receive from Russia, Gazeta.ru reports, citing Belarusian Finance Minister Maksim Yermolovich.
According to the minister, the Chinese bank has only provisionally agreed to give Minsk up to $500 million. The interest rate is still being discussed, and the loan will be denominated in yuans.
“For quite a long time we have been building such relations with the Russian …