The crisis is unlikely to bring any foreign policy changes as all forces are pro-Russian / panoramio.com The political crisis in the self-proclaimed and internationally-unrecognized Abkhazia will result in no foreign policy changes, while reflecting the local elites’ struggle for Russia’s financial support. On January, 9 a group of protesters stormed the building hosting the “presidential administration” after the local

The statement comes following her meeting with Putin on Saturday. REUTERS German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel ha said that the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, bypassing Ukraine, should be completed. The statement comes following her meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, an UNIAN correspondent in the Russian Federation reports. We also spoke, of course,

11.01.2020 17:30 Ukraine had evidence of a rocket attack against a Ukraine International Airlines plane before Iran’s statement that the Iranian military shot down the aircraft accidentally, Secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov has told BBC Ukrainian. “We knew this information even before Iran changed its position. We knew this information before it was

11.01.2020 19:13 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky had a phone conversation with President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rouhani. “Acknowledgment of shooting down our plane is a step in the right direction. I insist on the immediate completion of the identification of bodies and their return to Ukraine. The perpetrators should be brought to justice. We look forward

11.01.2020 19:47 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine will immediately send a note to Iran with a clear list of all the next steps, including the legal aspects of the compensation to the families of the UIA plane crash. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine will immediately send a note to Iran with a clear list of all

The train was seen moving eastwards in the strategic railway hub of Debaltseve, which is beyond Ukraine government control. Transportation was recorded January 8 / OSCE The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in its spot daily report published Friday said they “observed seven tanks loaded on a cargo train travelling eastwards in Debaltseve (nongovernment-controlled, 58km north-east of Donetsk), as well as

 Saturday, January 11, 2020 11:00:37 AM Helsinki has decided to monitor the border from the air in order to combat illegal infiltration into its territory from the Russian Federation. To do this, border guards will use helicopters and aircraft, reports YLE. Forests in the east and north, where border guards are less likely to be protected compared to other Finnish territories, will

 Saturday, January 11, 2020 10:00:29 AM The administration of the Abkhazian President, Raul Khajimba, accused members of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) of the coup attempt, reports Interfax. Abkhazia’s officials are trying to determine how these people arrived and stayed in the region. According to the publication Echo of the Caucasus, one of the organizers of the rally on January 8-9, which

Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) will pay all insurance payments and compensations to the families of killed passengers of crashed plane of Tehran-Kyiv flight in accordance with the international rules, UIA President Yevhen Dykhne reported at a briefing in Boryspil airport on Saturday. “All compensations and insurance payments that are defined by law and are in the airlines’ area of responsibility

11.01.2020 15:10 In 2020-2024, the Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine (GTSOU) will earn UAH 225 billion (inclusive of VAT). “The aggregate income of GTSOU in 2020-2024 will total UAH 225 billion. In particular, UAH 40 billion will come from gas transportation within Ukraine and UAH 185 billion – from transit (according to effective gas transportation tariffs approved by the

11.01.2020 14:28 Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh has said that before the shooting down of a Ukraine International Airlines plane in Iran, IRGC requested the establishment of a no-fly zone due to the war situation in the country. He said this at a news conference on Saturday, January 11, according to Reza Khaasteh, a journalist of

Iranian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Hamid Baeidinejad in a post on Twitter expressed his apology for his wrong statement about the Ukrainian plane crash. “In my statement yesterday to the UK media, I conveyed the official findings of responsible authorities in my country that missile could not be fired and hit the Ukrainian plane at that period of time.

11.01.2020 12:10The black box recordings of the Ukraine International Airlines plane, which was accidentally shot down by Iranian military near Tehran on January 8, will be downloaded in France. “Black box recordings of the Ukrainian airliner, which crashed on the outskirt of Tehran on Wednesday, will be downloaded in France,” head of the accident investigation board of Civil Aviation Organization

President of Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Yevhen Dykhne has said that he had no doubt about the innocence of the company and the crew in a Ukrainian plane crash in Iran on January 8. He wrote this on his Facebook page. “We had no doubt for a second that our crew and our plane could not have caused this terrible,