The assets affected were in England, Wales, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. REUTERS The freezing of some of Gazprom’s foreign assets at the request of Ukraine’s state-owned Naftogaz has been lifted, the Russian gas giant said on Monday. The assets affected were in England, Wales, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Gazprom said, according to Reuters. Read also Ukraine receives Gazprom’s payment for

Israeli news outlet Debka reports, citing unnamed sources in the Russian Defense Ministry, that Iran used Russian space technology to strike U.S. military bases in neighboring Iraq. “Russian military sources said that, during the Iranian missile attack on two U.S. air bases in Iraq, on January 8, it was Russia that provided support to Iran. Russian sources claim they had

More than half of Russians believe that their country imprisons people for political reasons, an all-time high since the independent Levada Center polling agency first conducted the survey in 2004. Last summer saw the brief arrest of investigative journalist Ivan Golunov on falsified charges, a move that his supporters said was punishment for his work. He was released days later

Former Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s frantic attempts to bring national projects back on schedule in the last few weeks of December were a severe trial for the Russian banking system, and even major banks like Sberbank and VTB experienced a record number of disruptions, reports finanz.ru. According to the Russian Finance Ministry, in order to implement the budget in December,

The terrorist “DNR” will pass “laws” regardless of the Minsk agreements, imitating the “lawmaking” of a full-fledged state. This was said by the so-called “deputy of the People’s Council of the Republic” Yelena Shyshkina, commenting on the statement of former OSCE representative in the Contact Group at the Minsk talks Martin Sajdik, who accused the authorities of CADLO in adopting

The Minsk agreements do not provide for autonomy for the temporarily occupied territories of Donbass. This was stated by ex-OSCE representative in the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk Martin Sajdik in an interview with Die Presse, – Ukrinform reports. “Then another element appeared on the Russian party: the demand for autonomy is a concept that is useless to look for

20.01.2020 17:55 Successful implementation of the dual citizenship reform will help return talented youth to Ukraine. “Our youth has a very positive attitude toward the US, and we hope that more of our young people will be able to get a great education at American universities, which are among the best in the world. We are happy for people to

Security at Kyiv synagogues is not as tough as abroad since Jews are not in danger in Ukraine, says the president. Photo from UNIAN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has stressed the lowest level of antisemitism in Ukraine among European countries. We have very interesting statistical information that will be very interesting for Israel. There is a published Pew Research Center

The General Staff had been working out a plan that provided for countering the seizure of the Ukrainian territory. REUTERS Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine Serhiy Kryvonos has said the Ukrainian military could restrain Russian aggression during the process of the illegal annexation of Crimea back in 2014. Ukrainian units of highly mobile

Elizaveta Peskova, the daughter of Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov, told Forbes in an interview that in Russia a “specific mayhem” comes from the law enforcement organs. “In Russia there is a specific mayhem which no adequate, civilized person will be indifferent towards, and this mayhem comes from the law enforcement organs,” she said. During the interview she did not clarify exactly

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that relations with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, are at an early stage, but the Russian leader understands his position that Ukraine is an independent country. Zelensky said this in a comment to The Times of Israel. “I don’t know what he’s thinking about. He didn’t tell me. I think he understands my attitude:

An essential listen for those interested in Ukraine’s well being. Confirmation here that Manafort is responsible almost as much as putler for the death and misery inflicted upon Ukraine. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csyth7

The Ukrainian leader says he would never have sought the presidency without having the peaceful settlement in Donbas as a goal. REUTERS Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he thinks his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin understands that Ukraine is a big, independent country. Answering a question from The Times of Israel whether Putin still thinks that ‘Ukraine is not a country,’