Smolii says he has been hearing calls for policies that would benefit a particular sector of the economy or exporters. REUTERS Political pressure on the leadership of the National Bank of Ukraine was manifested in calls to raise inflation to 11% and weaken the hryvnia exchange rate to UAH 30 to the U.S. dollar, says Yakiv Smolii, the former NBU

France’s attempts to build new relations with Russia and return it to the ranks of leading industrialized countries have not yet yielded results, said French Defense Minister Florence Parly. French President Emmanuel Macron believes that pushing Russia away is a “big strategic mistake” and wants to enlist Moscow’s help in resolving various crises in the world, while reducing the level

The title represents a new blog I came across, although it’s a fairly recent blog, the author is certainly up to date with the Russian mafia methods. I put a link in the sidebar to the site. It’s called Killing For the Kremlin it has been running for 6 weeks now, and has around 6 articles to date. (c) https://killing4kremlin.net/

Doctors in Russia’s fourth largest city told The Moscow Times they are treating coronavirus patients in hallways as more keep arriving. By Evan Gershkovich and Pjotr Sauer6 hours ago On June 26, the day after the start of a week-long vote on constitutional reforms that have since passed and will allow President Vladimir Putin to rule until 2036, Russia’s fourth largest city of Yekaterinburg

    he Ministry of Defense has warned about a possible Russian offensive. The ministry has said this in a statement, Ukrainian News Agency reports. “Our state has informed the OSCE about the military potential accumulated by Russia against Ukraine. Ukrainian and American experts as well as the Main Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine are warning about

By Philip Carl Salzman  July 2, 2020 Rioters who hate America are not an accident; they are the fruition of decades of ideological indoctrination at our universities. While Marxism was increasingly repudiated around the world by countries that had suffered and failed under communist rule, professors in Western universities enthusiastically took up the destructive system, breathing life into its rotting

   The UK does not and will not recognise voting on amendments to the Russian constitution in the territory of the occupied Crimea. “Russia’s use of Crimea for voting on amendments to the Russian constitution is unacceptable. The UK does not and will not recognise such voting on sovereign Ukrainian territory.  We stand in solidarity with Ukraine in reminding Russia

    France has invited Ukraine to take part in deciphering of black boxes from the UIA plane downed over Teheran (the Islamic Republic of Iran). Deputy Foreign Minister, Yevhen Yenin, has written this on Facebook, Ukrainian News Agency reports. He noted that Ukraine’s task is to ensure maximal level of international acknowledgement of the facts of unlawful interference in the

   Russian leader Vladimir Putin has ridiculed claims that he blocked a chemical toilet while staying in a static caravan during a recent UN summit because he has cholera. “This is a western conspiracy aimed at discrediting our government,” he told reporters. “I do not have cholera. Also in my country we only have extremely modern flush toilet facilities, and

The Air Force Command press service, which had publicly condemned the move, stressing threats to the country’s defense capability, later reported that a compromise solution has been found, including thanks to public response. Ukraine Air Force Command State Bureau of Investigation officials in the city Khmelnytsky seized ultra-high frequency devices (klystrons) during an inspection at the air defense brigade of

Perpetrators blackmailed their victim with information in an MP death probe that might hurt the businessman’s reputation. OPG Ukraine The Office of the Prosecutor General says an “organized group” has been exposed, led by an SBU [Security Service] official with the agency’s Odesa department, who were engaged in extortion. Perpetrators are believed to have been blackmailing a local businessman, demanding that he pay

July 02, 2020 17:16 GMT By Crimea Desk, RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba (file photo) Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says Russia’s departure from the Black Sea Crimea Peninsula, which it annexed in 2014, is “inevitable.” In an interview with RFE/RL, Kuleba said that Crimea’s “de-occupation” won’t be stopped, even by the controversial constitutional amendments — one