POLITICO By Lara Seligman Four days before President Trump was inaugurated in January 2017, the outgoing vice president, Joe Biden, was in Ukraine — his sixth visit in seven years — to deliver a rousing farewell speech. “You’re fighting both against the cancer of corruption, which continues to eat away at Ukraine’s democracy within, and the unrelenting aggression of the

NEWSMAX By Marisa Herman 31 July 2020 A plane crashed that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and 94 top government and military officials 10 years ago may not have been caused by pilot error. During a Friday appearance on Newsmax TV’s “National Report,” chair of Poland’s Smolensk Air Disaster Investigation Antoni Macierewicz said new evidence shows that explosive materials were found

State investigators have launched a criminal case against Moscow City Duma deputy Yulia Galyamina for “repeated violations of the rules on conducting public events.” The case was launched under article 212.1 of Russia’s Criminal Code, which is often referred to as “Dadin’s article” after activist Ildar Dadin — the first person to be convicted under this article following its introduction in 2014.

31.07.2020 15:37 Leonid Kalashnikov, head of the Russian State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, says that Russia will be able to formally supply weapons to militants in Donbas if the United States approves annual military aid to Ukraine. The adoption by the U.S. Senate of a bill on annual military aid worth USD 300 million to Ukraine “will open the

My name is Roman Burko, I am a journalist, blogger, founder of the international volunteer community InformNapalm and editor-in-chief of InformNapalm.org website. I was born in Donbas, then moved to Crimea. I studied, lived and worked in Sevastopol. By some quirk of fate both of these Ukrainian regions, which I call my home, are now occupied by the Russian Federation. This had a deep impact

It encourages the U.S. Department of State to establish a working group on Ukraine with relevant European allies. REUTERS A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on July 30 introduced legislation to provide support for Ukraine, authorizing up to US$300 million per year of foreign military financing. “U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of

Police and security forces were in place, but did not interfere. ‹› 1/16 Thousands of Belarusians on Thursday afternoon took to the streets of Minsk in a massive rally as the presidential election campaign is nearing completion. The action was led by an opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the local edition TUT.BY reports. The event was held at the Friendship of

Russian business in Ukraine hides its beneficiaries and does not indicate them in the register 20:59 07/30/2020 http://click.zmctrack.net/c/redirect?hash=c7acf6b258754b76 Russian companies in Ukraine hide their origins, and Ukrainian companies in Russia establish legal entities that are engaged in wholesale trade and register public organizations. This is the conclusion reached by the analysts of the system for checking the YouControl counterparties , who refer to data

The video footage shows Andriy Strikharsky attacking a woman, and his guards attacked the man who tried to protect her17:25, 30 July 2020 Andriy StrikharskyOpen source Telegram channel ZElandia published a video footage showing an incident with Andriy Stikharsky, the MP from Servant of the People party. The official attacked a visitor in the restaurant in the unidentified location, Korrespondent reported. “MP from Servant

Deputy Chairman of Russian presidential administration caled the ongoing format of negotiations “meaningless”18:53, 30 July 2020 Dmitry KozakOpen source Deputy Head of Russian presidential administration Dmitry Kozak claimed that his country withdraws from negotiations on Donbas conflict with his Ukrainian colleague, Andriy Yermak. The Russian official claimed this in his letter to German chancellor Angela Merkel, Strana.ua news agency reports. Kozak called the ongoing

The members of the criminal group supplied Russia with military goods and technologies produced at Ukrainian enterprises21:48, 30 July 2020Open source Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has exposed the scheme of illegal supply of military goods produced by Ukrainian enterprises to Russia. The press service of the SBU reported this on Facebook. “The Security Service of Ukraine found a number of private companies’

FILE PHOTO: Harrison H Schmitt stands on the lunar surface near the United States flag during NASA’s final lunar landing mission in the Apollo series 13 December 1972. ©  Getty Images / Universal History Archive By Jonny Tickle Almost fifty percent of surveyed Russians think that the US government “falsified” the Apollo expeditions to the Moon, with just 31 percent absolutely sure

A Russian court on Thursday sentenced former U.S. marine Trevor Reed to nine years in prison for assaulting two police officers while drunk last year. Reed, a 29-year-old student and former marine from Texas, allegedly attacked police after attending a party in Moscow. He appeared wearing a facemask in a cage for defendants in a courtroom in the Russian capital

   MINSK – Belarus said it suspected a group of alleged Russian mercenaries of plotting “acts of terrorism” ahead of a presidential election in August and summoned Russia’s ambassador on Thursday for an explanation. State TV on Wednesday broadcast footage of more than 30 suspected Russian private military contractors being detained near Minsk after authorities said they had received information

     Ukraine is a very important partner for NATO because it contributes greatly both to the operational component of the Alliance and the development of effectiveness of the NATO Response Force (NRF) and other important units. “Ukraine is a very important partner for us because you make a huge contribution not only to the operational component of the Alliance, but

   On Thursday, July 30, at 11:00, the press center of the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency will host a press conference on the subject: “On Prohibition of Political Parties with Actions Aimed at Violating Ukraine’s Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity and Undermining the Security of the State.” Participants include Commander of the Azov regiment (2016-2017), Head of the headquarters of the National Corps

    A group of militants detained in Belarus could have been used to destabilize the situation in the country before the presidential elections, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Kateryna Zelenko said. “Ukraine has long warned that members of the Russian-led forces and illegal armed formations that participated in hostilities in eastern Ukraine are being used in other parts of the world

   At request of PGO, Russia‘s Krasnoyarsk Regional Court declared Komitet “Natsiya i Svoboda” (Committee: Nation and Freedom), association of Russian nationalists, who, among other things, opposed Russia‘s war in Ukraine & adoption of amendments to the constitution, extremist. © Hromadske International ® Twitter