Stephen Komarnyckyj. From 28 January 2020 A Ukrainian MP claims that Volodymyr Zelensky met Vladislav Surkov in Oman. Stephen Komarnyckyj looks at the evidence. strange meeting took place on the 6 January 2019 in Muscat, the capital of Oman. Photographs of it show Oman’s Foreign Minister staring bewildered into space. The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is sitting tensely opposite him

Ukraine’s oil company Ukrtatnafta, which is controlled by oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, has won a tender to supply the Ministry of Defence with 3,500 tonnes of aviation fuel despite asking a price that was 30% more than the lowest bidBy Ben Aris in Berlin June 25, 2020 Ukraine’s oil company Ukrtatnafta, which is controlled by oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, has won a tender to

Get-out-the-vote effort includes prize giveaways while campaign avoids focus on president. Meanwhile, weeks before the vote, publishers had begun stocking Moscow bookstores with copies of the amended constitution. REUTERS The people of Moscow received text messages this week telling them they had been registered to win “millions of prizes”. The catch? They have to vote on constitutional amendments that include

Serbian media have reported that other government officials have tested positive for the virus but that President Aleksandar Vučić is fine. REUTERS Serbian defense minister Aleksandar Vulin has tested positive for coronavirus, the government said in a statement. Vulin does not have symptoms for the virus and will continue to do his job in self-isolation, Euronews reports. He was tested

Ukrainian businessman Igor Kolomoisky demands that the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Iryna Venediktova opens a criminal case against ex-president Petro Poroshenko, UNIAN reports. Businessman Igor Kolomoisky wrote a request to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Irina Venediktova, which demands that she opens a criminal case against the former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko under section 1 of Article 369-2 of the

Russian President said he regularly passes testsRussian President Vladimir Putin© Alexey Druzhinin/Russia’s presidential press service/TASS MOSCOW, June 28. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin said he regularly passes tests for COVID-19 and all of them were negative. “Regularly, once in three or four days,” Putin said in an interview with “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” program on Rossiya-1 TV channel when asked how often he

To suppress enemy fire, Ukrainian units applied non-proscribed weapons. JFO Command Russian occupation forces on June 27 violated the ceasefire 12 times, Joint Forces Operation Command reported in a morning update. A Ukrainian military serviceman was killed in enemy shelling and another three soldiers were injured in action as the adversary employed 122 mm artillery systems, as well as 120

UkraineAlert by Taras Kuzio SAT, JUN 27, 2020 Viktor Medvedchuk is Ukraine’s leading pro-Kremlin politician and a personal friend of Vladimir Putin. Medvedchuk’s expanding Ukrainian media empire is sparking concerns over Russian influence in Ukraine’s information space. (Photo: Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin)  Vladimir Putin’s six-year military intervention in Ukraine has failed to reverse the country’s turn away from Russia, but the Kremlin

As he said during a video conference, the Russian Federation went “far, far ahead of Ukraine” in the matter of deregulating the economy and the effectiveness of the fiscal system17:17, 27 June 2020The current chairman of the executive committee of Ukraine’s National Reform Council112 AgencyThe head of the Executive Committee for Reforms in Ukraine Mikheil Saakashvili believes that Russia is better

In the Siberian city of Omsk, the head of voting district No. 1352 won an apartment during a prize draw for participants in the ongoing plebiscite on constitutional amendments. On June 25, the lottery’s organizers announced on the social networking site “VKontakte” that Anna Ganeva, a 59-year-old resident from the town of Luzino, had won the apartment that was included in the

116TH CONGRESS2D SESSION S. llTo clarify and expand sanctions applicable with respect to the constructionof the Nord Stream 2 or TurkStream pipeline projects.IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATESllllllllllMr. CRUZ (for himself, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. COTTON, and Mr.JOHNSON) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on llllllllllA BILLTo clarify and expand sanctions

    WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops — amid the peace talks to end the long-running war there, according to officials briefed on the matter. The United States concluded months ago that the Russian unit, which