Head of the President’s Office Andriy Yermak has said the holding of elections in the temporarily uncontrolled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions in Donbas (eastern Ukraine) is possible only after their complete de-occupation and settlement of all security issues, as well as those related to human rights. The comment came during a “Freedom of Speech by Savik Shuster”

   BERLIN (Reuters) – The prime ministers of Germany’s eastern federal states have backed a resolution in support of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which is supposed to supply fuel from Russia to Germany, the Bild newspaper reported on Friday. The German government has questioned the completion of the project after the poisoning of opposition politician Alexei Navalny. Berlin

   Former MP Ihor Kononenko called the statement made by MP Andriy Derkach a political manipulation. “All of Derkach’s statements, which were made exactly a few months before the U.S. presidential elections, are purely political manipulation, which has a specific goal to influence the United States election process,” Kononenko wrote on Facebook on Thursday, commenting on Derkach’s press conference in

19.09.2020 13:45 Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal believes that GDP growth at 4.6%, which is included in the draft state budget for 2021, is completely realistic. He said this on the air of the TV program “Freedom of Speech of Savik Shuster” on Friday evening, an Ukrinform correspondent reported. “We are already seeing growth in the third quarter. We expect

Opposition politician Alexei Navalny has described his recovery at the Germany-based Charite hospital and said that he is better and can walk now. “Let me tell you about my recovery. It’s a clear path now, albeit long. […] Now I’m a guy whose legs are shaking when he takes the stairs, but at least he is thinking, ‘Oh, that’s stairs!

By David Jones for the Daily Mail00:54 BST 19 Sep 2020 , updated 08:42 BST 19 Sep 2020 She stood among countless other Jewish women and children stretched along the edge of the gorge as far as the eye could see. All had been forced to strip before being marched to this godforsaken place and they knew that in a few moments

Negotiations are underway on the clauses that should be amended so that the law could work from a legal perspective. REUTERS Ukraine’s envoy to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), MP with the Servant of the People parliamentary faction Andriy Kostin says the Ukrainian side has agreed to integrate the so-called “Steinmeier formula” into the law on the special status of

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday the Putin administration doesn’t know where European specialists were able to find traces of a Novichok-class nerve agent on Alexey Navalny’s water bottle because Russian police never examined the alleged water bottle. “We can’t explain this [the discovery of traces of poison on the bottle] because, as you know, the bottle —

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin thinks German intelligence agents may have poisoned Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny as part of a plot to undermine Moscow’s support for Belarusian sovereignty.  In comments published on the State Duma’s website on Friday, Volodin condemned the European Parliament’s recent decision to cease recognition of Alexander Lukashenko’s presidency on November 5 and welcome the Belarusian opposition’s “Coordination Council” as

18.09.2020 15:50 In September, Russia has delivered 1,200 tonnes of fuel, six wagons and more than ten trucks full of anti-tank mines and munitions to the occupied parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. “Since the beginning of September, about 1,200 tonnes of fuel, six wagons and more than ten trucks full of anti-tank mines and munitions, including for artillery systems,

The EU’s relations with Russia in connection with the construction of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline are unlikely to improve in the future. Therefore, the approach to this project should be changed, said the head of the European Commission (EC) Ursula von der Leyen, reports the newspaper Les Echos. “Russia’s behavior has not improved and even tends to worsen. Our hope for

The resolution was backed by 532 MEPs. The resolution is non-binding / REUTERS The European Parliament (EP) has demanded that sanctions against the Russian Federation should be strengthened and the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline should be halted over the poisoning of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny. This is stated in a resolution posted on the EP’s website.

   “EU, U.S. take note of Ukrainian parliament’s decision to appoint members to the commission to choose the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor. The commission needs to embark on a transparent process with candidates’ integrity and merits at its core. Our further support will depend upon it,” a statement posted by the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine and the EU Delegation to Ukraine