To justify its breakup of Ukraine, the Kremlin seeks to embarrass the U.K. and other major NATO allies. But the Scottish National Party wants nothing to do with Putin 13:19, 19 February 2020Reuters A little over two years ago, Alex Salmond, the former first minister of Scotland, announced he was being hired to host a show on RT, the Kremlin-funded

Corruption may have lessened in recent years in this area, but price fixing and company profitability look set to endure and probably limit the Kremlin’s ambitions18:28, 20 February 2020rbc.ru In late December 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an ukaz (decree) detailing plans to write off a large portion of the debt collectively owed by the country’s defense industrial complex (Oboronnyi Promyshennyi Kompleks—OPK). The details

Environmental activists hold up a poster reading “Clog Nord Stream 2!” as they stage a protest at the construction site for the European Gas Pipeline Link (EUGAL) pipeline in Wrangelsburg, northeastern Germany on May 16, 2019.Photo by AFPPopular The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Europe through Germany may become only a pipe dream if Russia cannot find a way to complete

Judges of Ukraine’s Constitutional Court.Photo by Ratynskyi Viacheslav The Constitutional Court has recognized Ukraine’s 2016-2017 judicial reform as partially unconstitutional, according to a decision published by the court late on Feb. 19. Specifically, the Constitutional Court ruled that the liquidation of the old Supreme Court in 2017 as part of the judicial reform was unconstitutional. The decision triggered indignation among judicial

The plane of the SkyUp air company with Ukrainian citizens evacuated from Wuhan (the People’s Republic of China) aboard landed at the Kharkiv International Airport at around 11:55 p.m. This follows from the data from the Flightradar, Ukrainian News Agency reports. The people will be delivered to the medical center of the National Guard, Novi Sanzhary, in Poltava region. As

Russia was the major supplier of nuclear fuel to Ukraine. Ukraine is trying to diversify the sources of nuclear fuel supplies / Photo from UNIAN Ukraine in 2019 imported fuel assemblies for its nuclear power plants to the tune of US$396.889 million. Over the period under review, Russia supplied 263 tonnes of nuclear fuel worth US$240.91 million (60.6% in the

On the sixth anniversary of the Euromaidan Revolution, former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych published a message addressed to the new government. The statement appeared on the Facebook page of his lawyer, Vitaliy Serdyuk. Yanukovych himself fled Ukraine in 2014. Yanukovych said that he is happy that former president Petro Poroshenko, who had ruled Ukraine since the revolution in 2014, has been

This is yet another evidence of Russian involvement in the Donbas war, which will be provided to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. JFO HQ A high-impulse thermobaric explosive has been found during a demining effort clearance in Donbas, within the zone of the Joint Forces Operation. “In the area of the Joint Forces Operation, work continues on documenting more

20.02.2020 10:00 February 20 is the official date of the beginning of the temporary occupation of Crimea, which was determined by the resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine “On the Statement of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine “On Countering the Armed Aggression of the Russian Federation and Overcoming its Consequences” of April 21, 2015. On February 20, 2014, Russia