Those who call themselves deputies of the “People’s Council of the DNR” have adopted a “law” establishing the title “City of labor merit”. It is noted that such an “honorary” title will be awarded to “settlements the residents of which have ensured uninterrupted production of military and civilian products at enterprises… since May 11, 2014”. Traditionally, self-proclaimed “deputies” speculatively turned

The deputy has openly sided with Putin’s political operative Viktor Medvedchuk. ‹ › 1/8 “Patriots for Life”, a civic organization supervised by MP Ilya Kiva, which recently came into a spotlight as a result of two conflict episodes with a rivaling group, has reportedly been hiring men who had been part of Viktor Yanukovych’s riot police during the Revolution of

Vice News David Gilbert September 2 With just over 60 days to the 2020 election, Facebook and Twitter have announced that the Kremlin-backed organization that interfered in the 2016 election is once again targeting Americans with disinformation. The announcement is the first evidence that St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency is seeking to repeat its success of four years ago and

Ladies and Gentlemen! This afternoon, the Minister of Finance, the Vice-Chancellor, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Defense, the Minister of the Interior, the Minister of Justice and the head of the Federal Chancellor’s department received new information concerning Alexei Navalny and discussed how we will proceed with this information. We have already informed you in writing about

The claims of the German authorities about the poisoning of Alexei Navalny with poison from the Novichok group are not supported by facts. This was stated by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Interfax reports. The Russian Foreign Ministry called on Germany to exchange information about what happened with Navalny, noting that Berlin “neglects the existing mechanisms of cooperation.” The Russian Foreign

Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has thanked Russian television channel RT for providing “support” after some staff and presenters at Belarus’s state broadcaster quit in protest over his disputed re-election. “I am grateful to you for this support,” Lukashenko told an RT journalist in a video released by the channel. “This is worth a lot,” he said in the clip released

Russia’s population could see its biggest decline in 14 years in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic has raised the country’s death rate amid falling birth rates, according to government forecasts reported by the RBC news website Tuesday. The Covid-19 outbreak will also push Russia’s poverty rate up from 12.3% in 2019 to 13.3% this year, according to the same preliminary forecasts. The

Philip Oltermann in Berlin and agencies 2 September 2020, 5:35 pm EEST The German government has said toxicological exams at Berlin’s Charité hospital have yielded “unequivocal proof” that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent Navalny, a strong critic of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, fell ill on a flight back to Moscow from Siberia

  Leader of the All-Ukrainian Union Batkivschyna Yulia Tymoshenko, after two weeks of fighting the coronavirus disease COVID-19, announced that she had gone through a crisis and would gradually return to normal life. “Almost two weeks of fighting a serious illness change the feeling of reality. But we’ll talk about this a bit later … And today, finally, I managed