When peace comes in Ukraine, four bells will simultaneously notify about this significant event in Ukrainian history12:20, 9 May 2020Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of UkrainePress service of Ukrainian President President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky launched the project of memorial symbols, within the framework of which it is planned to establish bells in the Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk region and Zakarpattia. Zelensky said

“The patience of society will last for two months”, said the head of the sociological research organization, Levada Center,  and predicted protests due to falling living standards By mid-summer, Russians may stage mass protests due to falling living standards, according to Lev Gudkov, head of the Levada Center. “I think that the society will have enough patience for another two months. That’s

In St. Petersburg, hundreds of healthcare workers have already contracted the coronavirus. There are currently 190 specialists undergoing treatment at the Botkin Infectious Diseases Hospital — four of them are on ventilators. Over a dozen St. Petersburg doctors between the ages of 30 and 84 years old have already died during the pandemic. Meduza spoke to their relatives and colleagues about what’s happening to

U.S. President Donald Trump has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted his offer to provide ventilators as Russia continued to see record-setting daily coronavirus cases, Reuters reported Thursday. Trump offered to send “a consignment of medical equipment to Russia” in phone talks with Putin, the Kremlin said on the day when Russia broke into the top five countries with the most Covid-19 infections. 

The head of Ukraine’s National Reform Council, Mikheil Saakashvili, who received the post just over a day ago, believes that the country needs to step up the process of attracting foreign investment. “As businesses are leaving China, Ukraine can again become an industrial hub of Europe, it can really reach this level for the first time,” the politician said on the talk

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko commented on the decision of the Constitutional Court of Moldova, which declared unconstitutional the Russian-Moldovan agreement on a loan of 200 million euros. “This decision causes bewilderment and regret because, firstly, the Moldovan side applied for a loan, Russia did not impose anything on anyone. And, secondly, negotiations on the agreement were conducted openly

The global nuclear weapons control system, created by the United States and the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War, is steadily heading for collapse. Following the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), the last agreement remaining from the 1970-1980 disarmament period, the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I), may go to the dustbin of history. Jimmy Carter and

Russia’s coronavirus lockdown could stay in place until at least the end of 2020 when a vaccine is developed or until the pandemic ends, the head of Russia’s consumer protection watchdog said Friday. Anna Popova’s grim prediction comes as Russia recorded six straight days of more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases, bringing its overall numbers to the fifth highest in the world