The Tu-214VPU (high-altitude control) plane of the special flight detachment “Russia” arrived from Minsk to Minsk on Tuesday evening, according to the Flightradar portal, Novaya Gazeta reports . As Business-Online reported in 2013, citing the director general of the Kazan Aircraft Plant, this aircraft was built specifically for the Federal Security Service. According to open sources, the director of the Russian special

Protests and strikes against the results of the elections in the country continue in Belarus. Employees of state TV channels are also on strike. They hold rallies at TV centers, demanding objective coverage of protests and violence from the security forces. Some journalists have already quit their editorial offices, where they have worked for many years. Meduza spoke with the striking journalists about their

   Ukraine is holding talks with China on mutual abolition of tourist visas. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced this in a statement, the Ukrainian News Agency reports. “In order to establish a visa-free regime for tourist trips by citizens of Ukraine and China on a mutual and permanent basis, work is being done with the Chinese side to consolidate

The Coordinating Council of the Belarusian Opposition held the first press conference at which the purpose of its work was announced – to hold new presidential elections and peaceful transfer of power. The council has no other political or reform program. Council members stated that they do not aim to seize power.https://www.youtube.com/embed/D7Fj4g3I-4o?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&showinfo=0&color=whiteEstablishment Kaardynatsyynaya council for the distribution of the lada | Coordination Council

Former official of the presidential administration Oleg Govorun owns real estate worth more than two billion rubles. This is stated in the investigation by The Insider. As the newspaper found out, in 2018 and 2019, Govorun acquired several apartments in the House of the People’s Commissariat for Finance in Moscow with a total area of ​​2,071 square meters. The Insider estimates the

Russian military adviser with the rank of major general was killed in Syria. Interfax reports this with reference to the Ministry of Defense. Three more Russian soldiers were injured in an explosion 15 kilometers from Deir ez-Zor (a city and province in northeastern Syria). An improvised explosive device went off, it was planted on the side of the road in the

Russian troops were spotted in Belarus. Eyewitnesses report that a convoy of armored vehicles crossed the border from Smolensk direction and moved towards the Belarusian city of Orsha. In the video, the voice-over claims that armored vehicles are accompanied by Belarusian traffic police. The man also reports that he counted 24 armored personnel carriers. Earlier, the Belarusian independent news outlet

Pavel Yakimchyk was returning home on the evening of August 11. He saw the riot police, ran away – was wounded by rubber bullets and was severely beaten in a police van. “I live in the area of ​​Kamennaya Gorka on Burdeiny Street. In the evening, near the Almi store, I saw a small number of protesters and a bus with riot

The creation of a coordinating council of the Belarusian opposition is an attempt to seize power, believes President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. His words are quoted by tut.by. “They demand neither more nor less – to transfer power to them. So, we regard it unequivocally: this is an attempt to seize power with all the ensuing consequences, ”Lukashenka said. In his opinion,

  On the evening of August 16, as hundreds of thousands rallied across Belarus calling for the ouster of its authoritarian leader, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, the Conflict Intelligence Team, a Russian investigative outfit, posted an alarming report. “Don’t make too much of it (yet),” the group wrote on Twitter. “But two convoys of unmarked trucks identical to Russian riot police/National Guard

OSCE Chairman Edi Rama and Foreign Minister of Sweden Ann Linde are going to visit Belarus23:14, 17 August 2020ATR OSCE Chairman, Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama and Foreign Minister of Sweden Ann Linde would like to visit Belarus for negotiations with government and opposition. They have already filed an official request to the Belarusian authorities as the OSCE reported. “We reiterate our concerns

    For the second day now, protestors in Belarus’ capital Minsk have clashed with authorities after incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko “won” his sixth term in a landslide victory. Belarus has long been considered a puppet state of the Russian Federation, but as recently as June, their government has accused Russia of meddling in Belarus’ electoral process. Experts even predicted questionable

PHOTOS18.08.2020 12:45 A delegation of the UK Ministry of Defense headed by Secretary of State for Defense Ben Wallace has started an official visit to Ukraine, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry has reported. The main purpose of the visit of foreign partners is to demonstrate military and political support to Ukraine and study the aspects of the implementation of bilateral agreements

   Ukraine and Bangladesh plan to strengthen the economic component of bilateral relations and to open permanent diplomatic missions in both countries in the future. Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Yevhenii Yenin discussed this during a meeting with Ambassador of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh to Ukraine (concurrently) Muhammad Mahfuzur Rahman on August 17, the Foreign Ministry’s press service reported. “The

Despite massive protests continuing in the Far East, all eyes in Russia are on its western neighbor. By Evan Gershkovich During his weekly YouTube talk show Thursday, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny summed up how Russia’s opposition feels about the protests that are raging on either end of the post-Soviet space with one of the internet’s most popular memes: the distracted boyfriend.  In