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After a hiatus of 10 years, Russia has started importing radioactive waste from Europe once again. Between 2019 and 2022, Russia will receive 12,000 tons of depleted uranium from Germany, Die Tageszeitung reports. The waste will comprise of so-called “uranium tailings”, byproducts of the enrichment process used to make fuel for nuclear power plants, GreenPeace notes. Russia actively imported these
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Paul A. Goble The harsh even hysterical reaction of the Moscow Patriarchate to the decision of the Greek Orthodox Church to recognize the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church reflects the fact that the Greek move may be a bigger defeat for the Russian church than even the original grant by the Universal Patriarch. That is because the Greek church
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This week, the pro-Kremlin media focused primarily on attacking NATO, the West and Ukraine. As usual, Russia was portrayed as entirely innocent. To make sense of the 60 cases of disinformation we gathered this week, we divided the most common and recurring narratives into broader categories. The overarching thrust of the Kremlin’s messaging is how the rotting West is an
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has awarded 3,600 euros to Nelya Shtepa, the former mayor of the Ukrainian city of Slovyansk in the Donetsk region whom Kyiv accuses of fomenting separatism. The October 24 ruling found that criminal proceedings against Shtepa had been “unreasonably long” and that her pre-trial detention had been “lengthy and unjustified.” It
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She is undergoing a surgery following a gruesome attack. Head of the Zaporizhia Roma Center “Lacho Drom” and wife of a local anti-corruption activist Konstantin Belov was stabbed in the heart at an apartment block outside her apartment earlier today, local police say. The attacker has fled the scene and remains at large. Police scrambled to identify and locate the
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A Russian commission on Thursday recommended President Vladimir Putin pardon a Norwegian man jailed for spying, spurring hopes in Norway that he may be released as part of a spy swap brokered behind closed doors. Frode Berg, a retired guard on the Norwegian-Russian border, was detained in December 2017 and jailed for 14 years after being convicted of gathering intelligence
Read moreRussia demanded that the United States leave the area of the Al-Tanf military base in southern Syria, reports RIA Novosti , citing Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin. “I speak about territory with a diameter of 55 km. Also, it is the Syrian territory, and the US military is located there illegally. They are blocking the road that connects Iraq and Syria.
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Razumkov has explained why the Ukrainian delegation refused to participate in the PACE session. Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Dmytro Razumkov, has noted that Ukraine is concerned about the undermined effectiveness of the Council of Europe’s key bodies. Addressing the European Conference of the Heads of Parliament of the Council of Europe member states, Razumkov called for participants
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After serious street protests that arose amid the rejection by the Ukrainian society of the so-called “Steinmeier formula” of Donbas settlement, the likelihood of the Normandy Four summit being held anytime soon has boiled down to a minimum. Although Ukraine did hope it would take place in November, Russia has already made clear the condition they set for the four
Read moreTwo Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers arrived at the Waterkloof Air Base in South Africa, reports Interfax news agency, citing Russian Defense Ministry. Russian Defense Ministry reports that the aircraft flew over the Caspian and Arabian seas, as well as the Indian ocean. The duration of the flight exceeded 13 hours. In the last stages of the route, Russian bombers were
Read moreThe Sviatoshynskyi District Court of Kyiv has canceled an order requiring former Berkut riot police officer Serhii Tamtura, who is accused of involvement in the killing of 48 Euromaidan activists on Instytutska Street in Kyiv, to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet. This was announced by presiding Judge Serhii Diachuk, the Ukrainian News Agency reports. A jury examined a petition by
Read more24.10.2019 17:54The National Bank of Ukraine has improved its GDP growth forecast to 3.5% in 2019 and 2020 and up to 4% in 2021. “We improved the economic growth forecast up to 3.5% for 2019 and 2020 and to 4% for 2021,” NBU Governor Yakiv Smolii said at a press conference, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. According to him, such indicators
Read moreUkraine climbs seven spots in Doing Business ranking 24.10.2019 10:29Ukraine has climbed seven spots in the Doing Business 2020 investment attractiveness rating, which is published annually by the World Bank, to place 64th among 190 countries, according to the website of the Ukrainian government. “The improvement in Ukraine’s ranking in Doing Business 2020 by seven positions is a result that speaks for
Read moreThursday, October 24, 2019 10:00:24 AM Russia has written off more than $20 billion of debt owed by African countries, said Russian President Vladimir Putin at a plenary session of the Russia – Africa Economic Forum, reports finanz.ru. This is 42% more than the annual budget of Russia’s entire higher education system ($14 billion), and more than the amount that will
Read moreThe per capita purchasing power of Ukrainians remains the lowest in Europe, according to an annual survey conducted by the analytical company GfK. “Ukraine takes last place with a per capita purchasing power of EUR 1,830,” the company said in a press release. According to researchers, Europeans have an average of EUR 14,739 (UAH 408,400) per person available for spending
Read moreHead of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Bohdan and his deputies Andriy Smirnov and Yulia Kovaliv held a meeting with G7 Ambassadors to Ukraine. “Pursuant to the instructions of the President, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Bohdan and his deputies Andriy Smirnov and Yulia Kovaliv held a meeting with Ambassadors of the
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Crimea is Ukraine. However, the Kremlin and its propaganda machinery will go many extra miles to seek out support of the inaccurate claim that Crimea’s status changed as a result of Russia’s invasion and illegal annexation in 2014. This craving for recognition forces pro-Kremlin media to produce a monotonous and ritualised flow of variations over a well-known theme: someone somewhere
Read moreThe London Court of Appeal has ordered businessman Ihor Kolomoiskyi and other defendants to pay PrivatBank’s costs totaling GBP 10.9 million by November 12. The bank announced this in a statement, the Ukrainian News Agency reports. “Following PrivatBank’s success in the Court of Appeal, which confirmed in a judgment on 15 October 2019 that the Bank can pursue its fraud
Read moreThe United States’ Charge d’Affaires in Ukraine William Taylor has confirmed that provision of American military assistance to Ukraine and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s official visit to Washington were linked to investigation of cases against former United States Vice President Joe Biden’s son and possible Ukrainian interference in the 2016 presidential election in the United States. Taylor confirmed this in
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