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Part of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s directive to create an autonomous internet will include a Russian alternative to Wikipedia. According to materials from Russia’s draft budget for 2020-2022, development of the National Interactive Encyclopedia Portal (OIEP) will begin in 2020 and will be financed by the federal treasury. The Russian government plans to spend a total of 1.7 billion rubles ($26.3
Read moreRussian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov claims that Ukraine violates the Minsk agreements by conducting vital reforms without coordination with the “DNR/LNR” occupation authorities. He wrote this on his page in social network. “The Minsk agreements were, in fact, violated by the Ukrainian party after amending the Constitution of Ukraine, which anchored the country’s desire for NATO. Plus, land reform, language law
Read moreUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree dismissing Oleksandr Danylyuk as secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC). The decree was posted on the website of the head of state on Monday, September 30. It was reported on September 27 that Danylyuk had tendered his resignation as NSDC secretary. Danylyuk later confirmed the report. The
Read moreThe Cabinet of Ministers expects to attract $50 billion in investments into the Ukrainian economy by 2024, according to a new government’s action program published on the parliament’s website. “We will build the government’s work in such a way that it will achieve the following results within the next five years: the economy of Ukraine (GDP) will grow by 40%,
Read moreSeveral news outlets have reported that Russian special forces were seen entering the Svalbard archipelago and mainland Norway. According to Aldrimer news outlet, sources in NATO and in Norwegian intelligence have reported that the Russian troops were studying the terrain and important infrastructure. The US has obtained satellite images depicting the Russian special forces troops in Norwegian territory. Oslo said that
Read moreThe Russian Finance Ministry has published a draft federal budget for 2020-2022 in which it has further increased financing for the security forces and reduced the budget for the economy, education and regional assistance. According to the document and its appendices, which have been uploaded onto the official legal information portal, the Russian government plans to spend $302 billion out of its
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President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sept. 30 appointed to the High Council of Justice a daughter of a top prosecutor who served ex-President Viktor Yanukovych, preferring her to several candidates with a reputation for integrity. Zelensky’s appointment of Oksana Blazhyvska has triggered indignation among anti-corruption activists. She is a daughter of Yevhen Blazhyvsky, an ex-deputy of Yanukovych’s infamous Prosecutor General Viktor
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Official Representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said on a Channel One Russia that the transcript publication of te telephone conversation between the US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky showed that it is dangerous to negotiate with Washington, reports TASS news agency. “I agree with many assessments that this [publication of the transcript] certainly changes
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Russia plans to build its own reusable Argo rocket to compete with Elon Musk and supply the International Space Station (ISS) by 2024, the RBC news website reported Monday. Russia has previously accused Musk’s SpaceX of squeezing it out of the carrier rockets market with the company’s relatively low-cost Falcon 9 rockets. Last year, Russia’s state-owned space corporation Roscosmos brushed
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The Kremlin said on Monday that Washington would need Russian consent to publish transcripts of phone calls between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Congress is determined to get access to Trump’s calls with Putin and other world leaders, the U.S. House Intelligence Committee’s chairman said on Sunday, citing concerns that the Republican president may have jeopardized national
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Sources claim this could be connected with Moscow’s plans to change the “head” of the self-proclaimed republic in Russia-occupied Donbas. Reports that “leader” of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”) Denis Pushilin is under arrest have appeared on “DPR” accounts on social networks. He was allegedly placed under house arrest, they say. Sources claim this could be connected with Moscow’s
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They were rushed to hospitals in Russia-occupied Luhansk. Five children aged seven to thirteen have been injured in a hand grenade explosion in a village controlled by the “Luhansk People’s Republic” (“LPR”), eastern Ukraine. The incident was reported in the occupied village of Krasna Zoria (Ukraine’s government has recently renamed it Chornohorivka) in Luhansk region’s Perevalsky district on Saturday, September
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The United Nations has decried human rights violations in Russian-held Crimea and conflict-torn eastern Ukraine. Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014, a land grab that Western countries have refused to recognize. The Crimean Tatars, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority, have largely opposed Moscow’s 2014 annexation of the peninsula and has seen its local self-governing body banned as an
Read moreOpinion: Washington should start paying attention to Georgia, which may be at a crossroads Aaron Kliegman – SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 12:30 PM Tbilisi, Georgia — With Russia bombing hospitals in Syria and supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine, it is easy to forget that this current wave of Russian aggression actually began here, in the Republic of Georgia, in 2008. One
Read moreMOSCOW (The Borowitz Report)—Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that he was “saddened and hurt” that Donald J. Trump had asked a different foreign country to meddle in a U.S. election. “I thought when it came to election meddling that Donald and I were exclusive,” an emotional Putler told reporters. “This feels like a betrayal.” Putin said that when
Read moreSebastian Kurz of the FPŌ party won the elections in Austria. His party won 37.2% of the votes. The patriotic FPŌ won 16% and the leftist SPŌ got 22% of the votes. (C) 2019 CNN
Read moreU.S. lawmakers are investigating concerns Trump’s actions jeopardized national security and the integrity of U.S. elections. REUTERS Congress is determined to get access to U.S. President Donald Trump’s calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said on Sunday, citing concerns the Republican leader may have jeopardized national security. I think
Read moreTalks are being held with international partners to raise funds under infrastructure projects. REUTERS Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Vladyslav Kriklii says that two annual budgets of the Infrastructure Ministry will not be enough to rebuild infrastructure in frontline areas in Donbas, eastern Ukraine. “This is a lot of money. It’s not even one annual budget or even two annual budgets,” he
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A former Prime Minister of Ukraine has said that authorities in that country must investigate Joe Biden’s son Hunter to establish whether or not his role on the board of a Ukrainian gas company complied with the nation’s laws. “It should be investigated so that the ‘i’s can be dotted and the ‘t’s crossed,” Mykola Azarov told Reuters Saturday, adding: “If he [Hunter Biden] was simply
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Satirical puppet show Spitting Image hopes to return to the small screen, 23 years after it last aired. New episodes of the comedy, described as “public service satire” by co-creator Roger Law, will take on Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, among others. “It’s pretty chaotic out there. As far as I’m concerned, it’s better than shouting at the television set,”
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Rudy Giuliani, a former prosecutor, should be aware that his behavior this week is strikingly in line with that of a co-conspirator. Caught at the center of this week’s impeachment inquiry announcement over the president’s efforts to extort Ukrainian officials in exchange for help getting reelected, Giuliani certainly is not doing himself—or his client, Donald Trump—any favors by speaking out.
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He must be punished for downed Boeing and for crimes against Ukraine, Sentsov believes Oleg Sentsov, who was previously freed from Russian imprisonment, believes that it would be fair if Russian President Vladimir Putin responded for his crimes in the Hague court. Sentsov added that this was his little dream. He stated this in an interview with Deutsche Welle. “This
Read moreThe Marxist rabble that is the modern Labour Party has remained staunchly loyal to Russia, despite the fact that it has been fascist for the past 20 years.
Read moreS&P Global Ratings raised its global scale long-term foreign and local currency sovereign ratings on Ukraine to ‘B’ from ‘B-‘, the outlook is stable. “On September 27, 2019, S&P Global Ratings raised its global scale long-term foreign and local currency sovereign ratings on Ukraine to ‘B’ from ‘B-‘ and its Ukraine national scale ratings to ‘uaA’ from ‘uaBBB’. The agency
Read morePolish Minister of National Defense Mariusz Błaszczak said in an interview to Polish radio that the command of American troops on NATO’s Eastern flank will move to Poland. The US and Poland recently signed a Joint Declaration on Defense Cooperation. The document states that the parties confirmed the planned increase of the number of US troops in Poland by a
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