Interior Minister of Ukraine Arsen Avakov has described a search of the dwelling of Member of Parliament of the eighth convocation (2014-2019) Tetiana Chornovol by the State Bureau of Investigations (SBI) on Friday morning and the suspicion notice served to her as abnormal and shameful. The minister said that First Deputy Head of the SBI Oleksandr Babikov should resign. “Tania

Verkhovna Rada Chairman Dmytro Razumkov has signed an order to call an extraordinary session of the parliament at 14:00 on April 13, the Office of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine said. The extraordinary session will be held upon initiative of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. The agenda of the session consists of eight items, including second reading of the bill

2020/04/03 – 15:11 • INTERNATIONAL, OP-ED Moscow believes that it will be able to “completely assimilate the nationalities of Russia” in this century by forcing them to use Russian rather than their national languages and to define themselves as members of a civic Russian nation, Tatar analyst Nail Gyylman says. But it is in for a rude surprise in a double sense, he argues.

Bank data shows spending is down by as much as a third in big demand hit to Russian economy. April 8, 2020 Russians have cut back their spending by as much as one-third as the country remains in a month-long national shutdown which has seen half the economy switch off and major cities including Moscow go into mandatory quarantine. Early data from

Moscow, April 10 (CTK) – The investigating committee of Russia has started a criminal prosecution of the removal of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev’s statue from Prague, its spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said today. The Prague 6 town hall did so last Friday. On Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said this was a crime that would not remain unanswered. Petrenko said the

The Kremlin’s attempt to show its teeth in the global oil market and sacrifice a partnership with Saudi Arabia in order to strike the U.S. shale industry ended in Russia’s capitulation. On Thursday, following a video conference, the ministers of the OPEC countries reached an agreement to stabilize the global oil market, which was on the verge of disaster due

The decision of the United States to launch a military operation to cut off drug supplies in Latin America poses a threat of negative consequences, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, as cited by RIA Novosti. “Washington’s decision to launch a military operation to cut off drug supplies in Latin America, which is accompanied by increased military activity around Venezuela,

The internal conflicts among the Donbas militants are increasing over the past days. The invaders brought fresh, according to the Minsk treaty banned, heavy artillery in position near the front line. Today another ukrainian soldier suffered lethal injuries and died from an attack by the invaders. Additionally feuds among the militants claimed another life. A militant was attacked with a

Video games are gaining mass appeal as more than half of humanity is staying home to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. And it’s no wonder: Games help distract from distressing news and transport the player to other worlds. In the last four weeks, record numbers of people have been using Steam, the world’s most popular gaming platform. Steam

Russia-led forces violated the ceasefire regime in the Joint Forces Operation area by firing on the positions of Ukrainian units in the Luhansk region, with one Ukrainian soldier reported as killed in action, the JFO headquarters reported on Facebook. “In the area of the JFO, the enemy violated the ceasefire regime by firing on the positions of Ukrainian units in

Coordinator of a group of lawyers working for 24 Ukrainian sailors Nikolay Polozov says Russia has decided to suspend prisoner swap talks with Ukraine on Ukrainians illegally imprisoned in Russian territory and occupied Crimea. “The negotiation process on the transfer of Ukrainian political prisoners by the Russian side has been suspended for some reason. Now 120 Ukrainian political prisoners, including

Photo: mil.gov.ua  2020/04/06 – 11:02 • REFORMS, UKRAINE Article by: Alla Hurska On March 1, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense (MOD) reported that all combat units and some small garrisons (indirectly involved in Joint Forces operations) of the Armed Forces switched to a new meal and food-supply system. The poor quality of soldiers’ meal packs has long been a source of chronic

The first one is horribly bleak. The second one is more optimistic. While nobody is watching, COVID-19 may allow Russia to crush Ukraine https://www.unian.info/m/politics/10952900-putin-has-no-other-choice-but-to-withdraw-from-eastern-ukraine-and-crimea-ukraine-s-foreign-minister.html