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Media: Ukrainian defense company supplying parts to Russian army
The Ukrainian company Motor Sich, whose president was awarded Ukraine’s highest national title, the Hero of Ukraine, MP and four-time member of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Vyacheslav Boguslayev, is still supplying components for Russian military engines, according to a study by journalists at Bihus.Info.
The authors of the study draw attention to the fact that Boguslayev and Pietr Kononenko, director of Motor Sich’s offices in Moscow, own a number of companies in Russia: …
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President of Belarus Lukashenko rules out union with Russia, borrows $600 million from China
The Belarusian government is concluding negotiations to borrow $600 million from China, announced Belarusian Deputy Finance Minister Andrei Belkovets.
“Initially we were counting on a loan from the Russian Federation,” Belkovets noted, while talking at the Fitch conference in Minsk. The loan would have been roughly the same amount - $630 million.
But the money was tied up. On April 1, after several rounds of intergovernmental talks following President Lukashenko’s visit to the Kremlin bearing …
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Billionaire Rotenberg’s son expects to receive $340 million from Kremlin for tracking sanctioned cargo
The food embargo imposed by Russia that prohibits the import of vegetables, fruit, meat and dairy products from the West could become another source of income for Igor Rotenberg, son of the Russian oligarch Arkady Rotenberg who is worth an estimated $2.6 billion according to Forbes.
RBC news agency reported that the Center for Development of Digital Platforms (CDDP), a company affiliated with Rotenberg, could become the operator of a system for tracking the transit of sanctioned cargo through …
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Putin: rapprochement between Russia and Ukraine is inevitable
In an interview for a new film by American Director Oliver Stone "In the struggle for Ukraine" (Revealing Ukraine) Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the rapprochement of the Russian Federation with Ukraine is inevitable, reports RIA Novosti news agency.
Putin noted that eventually Moscow and Kyiv will "develop more than friendly" relations.
"I think it's inevitable. In any case, it is necessary to build normal, friendly, and I would even say, more than friendly, partner relations. …
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Putin speaks against anti-Georgian sanctions 'out of respect for Georgian people'
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke against the imposition of sanctions against Georgia, which were proposed by Russian parliamentarians, reports Interfax news agency.
"To fully restore our relations, I wouldn't do anything to complicate them. Speaking about various kinds of sanctions against Georgia - I wouldn't impose them out of respect for the Georgian people," Putin said.
He also spoke against the initiation of the criminal process against Georgian journalist George Gabunia, who …