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

27.02.2020 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

27.02.2020 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

Russian 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

A 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,

A coal miner stands in front of a government building during a trade unions rally in central Kyiv on Oct. 17, 2018.Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin President Volodymyr Zelensky has suggested that Ukraine’s largest energy group, DTEK, should privatize unprofitable state-owned coal mines to make them finally bring revenue to the country.  If the company refuses to do it voluntarily, Zelensky threatened to

After missed Israeli strike on the Syrian capital, China called the Russian S-300 “Favorit” air defense missile system the most useless air defense system in the world. According to the Chinese newspaper Sina, contrary to Russia’s statement that the S-300 can track even “stealth” fighters, for a year and a half S-300s have been beaten by Israel so much that these

The Wagner private military company (PMC) has withdrawn completely from Libya due to a truce between the Government of National Accord (GNA) and the Libyan National Army (LNA), InterRight reports. A letter from one of the Russian mercenaries has been leaked online, and indicates that all of the Wagner PMC mercenaries who were in Libya have been sent home before the

Earlier, Putin suggested that legal experts be instructed to draft a constitutional provision prohibiting “alienation of Russian territories”. REUTERS Russian President Vladimir Putin considers it appropriate to lay down in the Russian constitution a norm on the acceptable interpretation of history, including that of World War 2. During a meeting with the working group engaged in preparing amendments to the

Ukrainian society argues on many things but agrees that Crimea is Ukraine. “I would like to start with simple and obvious things, the axioms that really don’t require any proof: there are seven days in a week, the Earth is round, and Crimea is Ukraine. Our society may argue on many things, but this issue does not raise any quarrels