• Russia is the only state among the G20 countries that wishes for Trump to win US presidential race

    Russia is the only country in the G20 that, according to YouGov, prefers Donald Trump as president. Most other respondents would like to see Hillary Clinton win the US presidential race.

    Among the major developed countries of the world, Russia is the only one that would like US Republican and billionaire Donald Trump to win the presidential elections. This follows from the results of a poll, conducted by the research company YouGov among 20 thousand adult respondents, that was commissioned by …

  • Ukrainian activists want to erect a statue of Ronald Reagan in Kiev

    Ukrainians have requested that the Kiev City Council install a monument to the famous American anti-communist.

    Activists in Kiev want to establish a monument to former US President, Ronald Reagan. The petition appeared on the website of the Kyiv City Council and was authored by Zablotskyi Marian Bogdanovich. As of the 19th of April, the petition has garnered 34 signatures.

    The petitioners report that the majority of the monuments to Reagan were installed in 2011, and dedicated to the …

  • PACE: The 'hybrid annexation' of the Donbas has already occurred

    The Parliamentary Assembly on the Council of Europe (PACE) believes that it is impossible to talk about the conduct of elections in the Donbas during the escalation of the conflict

    PACE’s rapporteurs on the situation in Ukraine, Kristina Zelenkova and Marilouise Beck, reported that recent escalations of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine have made it impossible to even  talk about holding the elections in the Donbas. They made the statement during session of the political and legal committees of …

  • Herashchenko: 648 people are still missing in Ukraine; Red Cross should be allowed to search for them

    During a meeting with the Deputy Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee at the Polish Sejm, Małgorzata Gosiewska, the First Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Iryna Herashchenko, stressed that 648 people are still missing in eastern Ukraine, as the search continues.

    "Our task is to look for these people. The Red Cross should be allowed to conduct search operations in the occupied territories," the press service of the Verkhovna Rada quoted Heraschenko.

    According to her, "it's …

  • Nemtsov's report presented at PACE session

    Nemtsov’s colleagues, Ilya Yashin and Olga Shorina, have finished his report.

    At a recent Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) session, a report entitled "Putin.War" was presented. The report provides information which essentially proves the participation of Russian troops in the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine as announced by an MP from the Permanent Delegation of the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian Parliament) to PACE, Georgiy Logvynsky, on his Facebook page.

    According to …