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Norway promises to respond to Russia's ban on entry for its journalist
The Director of Communications for the Foreign Ministry of Norway, Frode Overland Andersen, said that the country condemns Moscow's for ban the entry of Norwegian journalist Thomas Nielsen into Russia.
As reported by NRK news agency, this act is considered in Norway to be unlawful and unreasonable, and will not be left unanswered.
"We believe that it is unreasonable and unlawful to use EU restrictive measures as a pretext for refusing entry to Russia for Norwegian citizens," Andersen said. …
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President of Germany: Russia could intervene in our elections
The President of Germany, Joachim Gauck, stated that the country should be aware of the possibility of Moscow’s interference in the Bundestag election campaign. “It would be naïve to think that this can be completely avoided,” Joachim Gauck said in his interview with Bild am Sonntag. According to him, false statements have been made at the governmental level of the Russian Federation.
“Nearly 18 months ago, false statements that refugees in Germany raped a young Russian-speaking German …
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Turkey does not allow ships from the Crimea into its ports
As reported by Ukrainian TSN news channel, ships from the Crimea are not allowed into Turkish ports. TSN reports that the logistics company confirmed that ferries that arrived from Sevastopol are not allowed to enter the port of Zonguldak. This is not the first time that Crimean vessels were not allowed to moor while boats from Russian regions do not face such problems. The information was later confirmed by the Crimean Maritime Agency.
The director of the Crimean Maritime Agency, Stanislav …
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Ukraine may submit a new claim against Russia to the International Court of Justice
Ukraine can demand new restrictions against the Russian Federation from the International Court of Justice, if Moscow violates the orders of the Court. Olena Zerkal, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for the European Integration, expressed this opinion in an interview with Zerkalo Nedeli (The Mirror Weekly).
In her opinion, the Court will comply with the request of Ukraine to apply temporary measures against the Russian Federation as part of the hearing that took place this …
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Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the UN: the normal relations between Russia and the US are unlikely
Ukraine’s Ambassador to the UN, Volodymyr Yelchenko, expressed his opinion on why the US has not reached any deals with Russia. He stated in his interview to Apostrophe news web site that American officials have changed their opinion of “Russia’s behavior”.
“And when the new American officials, who started to deal with the Russian issue, read information in the media which they had not seen until now, and they saw Russia’s behavior before and now, many of them, I think, changed their opinion …