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The Russian Embassy in the UK is unwilling to recognize a £5.7 million debt to the London authorities for driving in the city center, TASS reports. In a comment, the embassy states that the Vienna Convention exempts diplomatic missions from paying “taxes, duties and levies, personal and property-related, state, regional and municipal”. The diplomatic mission believes that the congestion fee “is
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Most Ukrainians see no progress in the investigation of high-profile criminal cases. More than 80% of Ukrainian citizens consider the fight against corruption at the highest government levels unsuccessful, that’s according to a survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) February 21-25. “The fight against corruption in the highest government levels is unsuccessful, 83% of respondents believe
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Professor Sergei Chvarkov, Russian military experts, shares his vision of the nature, aims and likely diversity of future armed conflicts Russian military science contributes in many ways to planning concerning a range of defense and military issues. The political-military leadership attaches primary importance to efforts to research and examine future warfare in order to help the state prepare for and
Read more27.02.2020 14:17 Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba is convinced that Ukraine’s accession to NATO is possible even with temporarily occupied territories. “Yes. Ukraine’s accession to NATO is possible even with temporarily occupied territories,” Kuleba wrote on Twitter, answering his followers’ questions. As reported, earlier this year Ukraine formally applied for membership in NATO’s
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Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a decree which once again authorizes the Aerospace Forces to shoot down civilian aircraft that violate the country’s airspace. The ban on using lethal force against passenger planes was introduced after the international scandal of 1983, when the Soviet Union Air Force shot down a South Korean Boeing 747 with 269 people on
Read more27.02.2020 18:20 After a five-year break, Ukraine and France have resumed the work of the interstate commission on military and technical cooperation. The relevant agreements were reached during a visit to France by a delegation of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine headed by Deputy Defense Minister Anatoliy Petrenko, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “During the visit, after a five-year break, the work of
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The former republics of the Soviet Union breached their agreements to give Russia their assets abroad, said Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday while meeting with the work group for drafting amendments to the constitution. According to Putin, when the Soviet Union collapsed, Moscow undertook to repay the debts of all the former Soviet republics, in exchange for which they
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A young man in Siberia has died after police used a taser to wake him up, a local lawmaker and the victim’s mother said nearly two weeks after the tragedy Thursday. Dmitry Kharchenko fell asleep in the back of a taxi on his way home from a nightclub on Feb. 15. The driver reportedly asked police officers for help after
Read moreRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that a new summit in the Normandy Format can only take place after the decisions made at the previous summit have been implemented, especially the enshrinement of the “special status of the Donbas” in Ukrainian law, Interfax-Ukraine reports. “I have not heard about a meeting of ministers in the Normandy Format being planned for
Read moreA homemade vehicle bearing a striking resemblance to the “Batmobile” featured in a recent Batman film has been seized in central Moscow, Russia’s interior ministry announced. Traffic police brought the all-black, lowrider vehicle with giant wheels to a screeching halt as it cruised down one of the main roads into the city center on Saturday evening. They impounded the car,
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The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has started formal negotiations on the signing of a bilateral agreement on cooperation, free trade and partnership with the United Kingdom, the ministry has reported on its Twitter account. “Official talks have begun with the UK delegation on a bilateral agreement on political cooperation, free trade, and partnership. Key issues: strategic partnership and visa dialogue between
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Nearly one-third of Russia’s medical facilities lack a water supply network and more than 40% lack central heating, the Russian government’s public spending watchdog has said in its latest report on children’s health. Out of the almost 117,000 buildings inspected as of January 2019, Russia’s Audit Chamber said 41.1% had no central heating and 30.5% had no water. The figures
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The media of the future should allow people to express their experiences, not to impose a right or wrong In his speech at “Age of Crimea” Forum in Kyiv a renowned media expert, a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics, Peter Pomerantsev, elaborates on the current state of the media in
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Article by: Maryna Danyliuk-Yarmolayeva The questions – “Who am I?” “Who are we?” – were correctly stated by President Zelenskyy in his New Year’s address to the nation in January 2020. After thirty years of procrastination, not many of our forty million Ukrainians are aware of who they are and why they exist… and where our nation is heading under
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Top row: Washington and “secret services” of the US, UK, Poland and Canada. From left to right: George Soros; Dalia Grybauskaite; Victoria Nuland; Petro Poroshenko; Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Mikhleil Saakashvili. What is the actual impact of disinformation on people’s behaviour? This week we have been given a snapshot of an answer as violent protests broke out in Ukraine after a letter allegedly
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