The Russian reporters were hired after some employees of the Belarusian state television and radio company had decided to take to the streets and protest Lukashenko confirms Russian propagandists work in Belarusian TV, radio / REUTERS Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko explained why Russian propagandists had been hired to work in the Belarusian National State TV and Radio Company. Read also

David Ignatius, excerpts:…Here at last is hard evidence — certified by GOP committee leaders and published this week — that shreds Trump’s false claims of a Russia “hoax” or “witch hunt.” Let us never hear that glib dismissal of fact again. From now on, the simple answer to Trump is: “That’s not what Senate Republicans found.”…One goal of this coverup

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the main challenger to Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko in this month’s disputed elections, has urged workers of state-owned factories to continue striking against state violence and in favor of new elections despite pressure to stop. Tikhanovskaya’s video address took aim at Lukashenko’s traditionally loyal support base in the wake of strikes at major plants that threatened to shut down production

John Sweeney. 20 August 2020 John Sweeney investigates the Russian newspaper proprietor who parties with the Prime Minister and the change in security clearance that enabled his ennoblement Is Evgeny “Lord” Lebedev – newly ennobled by Prime Minister Boris Johnson – a potential security risk? Lebedev’s father, Alexander, was the senior KGB spy in London in 1988 and, to this

Doctors of the Omsk emergency hospital (BSMP) No. 1, where politician Alexei Navalny is in intensive care, allowed him to be sent for treatment to Germany. This is reported by the Omsk edition “Gorod55”. The decision was made at the council, which was attended by the wife of the oppositionist Yulia Navalnaya. According  to Gorod55, Navalny will leave Omsk within a few hours. According

21.08.2020 16:55 The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) has granted permission to the French company SAS Investcompagnie to acquire agricultural enterprises in Chernihiv and Zhytomyr regions. “SAS INVESTCOMPAGNIE (Paris, France) has been granted permission to acquire shares in the charter capital of Elevator-Agro LLC (Ivkivtsi village, Pryluky district, Chernihiv region, Ukraine), which will ensure that 50% of the votes in

    Ukraine’s accession to NATO is supported by 46.8% of Ukrainians, 27.3% are in favor of non-aligned status, and 16.4% are in favor of joining the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). Such data of the all-Ukrainian sociological survey of the population, conducted by the Social Monitoring Center from August 8 to August 15, 2020, were presented at a press conference

   As part of the reform, the debts of State Concern “Ukroboronprom” should be cleared and the concern needs to be brought to a global level. “The debts of enterprises need to be cleared. The enterprises should be given proper management and brought to a global level. The task is not difficult technically but requires strong political will. The defense

    A national democratic awakening is currently threatening to unseat Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka after 26 years in office. As he struggles to cling onto power, Lukashenka is increasingly resorting to the kind of language first deployed by the Kremlin to discredit the 2014 pro-democracy uprising in nearby Ukraine. According to Lukashenka, many of the Belarusians currently protesting for democracy

     Member of Parliament from the Servant of the People faction, Artem Dmytruk, decided to run for mayor of Odesa in local elections. He announced this on the air of the Channel 7, Ukrainian News Agency reports. “I’ll be honest that I made a decision for myself that I will go, I will run (for mayor of Odesa),” he said.

No toxic substances were found in the blood of Alexei Navalny, hospitalized in Omsk with signs of poisoning, a source familiar with the politician’s survey told Meduza. Navalny’s biomaterials were sent to a laboratory in Moscow for further study for the presence of toxic substances, the source said. He did not specify the name of the laboratory. Meduza’s source also confirmed

For the third time in a week, the state publishing house “Belarusian Press House” did not publish the latest issue of the non-state newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” in Belarus. This was reported by Euroradio and  Radio Liberty . According  to the newspaper, the printing house also did not publish the issue of another non-state newspaper, Narodnaya Volya. A broken machine was allegedly the cause, writes “Euroradio”. For

    Russian doctors say Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny is not well enough to be moved from the Siberian hospital where he is being treated for suspected poisoning. Aleksandr Murakhovsky, the head doctor at Omsk Emergency Hospital No. 1, said on August 21 that Navalny’s condition has improved a little, but that it was still unstable. Attempting to move the

     Alexei Navalny’s press secretary has urged Russian authorities not to interfere as supporters of the stricken opposition leader prepared to fly him out of the country to be treated for a suspected poisoning. A plane left Nuremberg with a medical team in the early hours of Friday and, according to German media, would head to Omsk before returning to