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A man was carried away by flowing water A 26-year-old man died in Yalta, occupied Crimea, in a result of inundation. He was carried away by flowing water as RIA News reported citing so-called head of the annexed peninsula Serhiy Aksyonov. “Unfortunately, in Yalta, a person of the 1995 year of birth died. It is the first fatal outcome tied
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Evgeny Prigozhin, a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, appealed to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control with a request to lift sanctions imposed on him, announced the press service of Concord Group owned by Prigozhin, TASS reports. “The press service informs that today, June 18, Yevgeny Prigozhin appealed to the Office of Foreign Assets Control
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Russia calls on the UN Security Council to condemn the attack of Ukrainian group on the insurgents of the unrecognized Luhansk People’s Republic on June 11. This is stated in the comment published on the website of the Permanent Mission of Russia to the UN. It is pointed out that on June 17, Russia initiated talks in the UN Security
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Those who had said nothing when the authorities rigged election results, shut down independent media outlets and jailed opposition members are now speaking out about their “impinging freedoms.” Moscow is in the grip of the third major wave of the pandemic. This time, a new and more contagious strain of the virus that originated in India is spreading rapidly among
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said his country needs to prepare for both “dialogue and confrontation” with the US, and “especially to get fully prepared for confrontation”. This marks the first time Mr Kim has directly commented on President Biden’s administration. North Korea had earlier snubbed efforts by the new US government to establish diplomatic communication. Mr Kim was
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Editor’s Note: This feature separates Ukraine’s friends from its enemies. The Order of Yaroslav the Wise has been given since 1995 for distinguished service to the nation. It is named after the Kyivan Rus leader from 1019-1054, when the medieval empire reached its zenith. The Order of Lenin was the highest decoration bestowed by the Soviet Union, whose demise Russian
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“I really don’t want to have to end anybody’s life for the good of the people of the United States of America. … But if it needs to be done, it needs to be done,” William Braddock says in the clip. MIAMI — A little-known GOP candidate in one of Florida’s most competitive congressional seats was secretly recorded threatening to
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Russia’s strategy to openly promote its statelets in eastern Ukraine thorough open fake diplomatic consulates in the EU failed. Apparently, an anti-Ukrainian propagandist movie set in occupied Donbas to be screened in Russian official “cultural centers” across the world is the next soft power attempt. However, the film has run into problems even before its worldwide premiere: its real-life protagonist
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Listening to U.S President Joseph R. Biden’s rambling NATO wrap-up press conference on June 14, I have to say that things are not looking particularly auspicious for the June 16 summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva. This is increasingly looking like a damage limitation exercise from Biden. We are still left with the question as to why on
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The luxury real estate market in London is experiencing explosive growth due to demand from wealthy Russians. In the first quarter of 2021, the number of requests to buy an apartment in the British capital from Russians with assets exceeding $30 million soared by 50%, reports the news agency RBC, citing a study by consulting firm Knight Frank. Most of
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Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary said Tuesday he opposes a long-term ban on flights over Belarus after Minsk forced his airline’s plane to land and detained passengers. Belarusian traffic controllers told Ryanair pilots to divert an Athens to Vilnius flight on May 23, citing a bomb threat that proved to be false and scrambling a military jet to accompany the plane.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin maintains a much lower level of global trust than his Western counterparts, according to a Pew Research Center poll published Monday. A median of 22% of respondents in 17 advanced economies including the United States said they have confidence in Putin “to do the right thing regarding world affairs,” Pew said. This year’s results mark a
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President Biden on Monday said Ukraine must root out corruption before it can become a full member of the NATO alliance, something Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has pushed for. “It depends on whether they meet the criteria. The fact is, they still have to clean up corruption. The fact is, they have to meet other criteria to get into the action
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On the eve of the first U.S.-Russia presidential summit between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, no one is expecting to see the kind of Gorbachev-Reagan displays of friendship that thawed relations between Moscow and Washington during the Cold War. In the weeks leading up to the talks in Geneva, Putin has played down the possibility of groundbreaking results, instead painting
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We expect to resume operations of UNIAN in English in the near future. Our entire UNIAN team is infinitely grateful to our readers, clients, and advertisers for being with us for the last seven years. Back in 2014, UNIAN’s English version emerged as a response to our country’s greatest challenge of that period – a hybrid war Russia unleashed against Ukraine. At
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The U.S. court for the District of Colombia has decided to reject billionaire Oleg Deripaska’s lawsuit against the Department of the Treasury to lift personal sanctions imposed in 2018. Deripaska, formerly Russia’s richest person, will remain on the blacklist of the Office of Foreign Assets Control with a visa ban and blocking of all assets in the U.S., according to a
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By Zoe Strozewski Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that it would be unacceptable to Russia if Ukraine joined NATO during an interview Wednesday with Russian state television. The longtime leader claimed that Ukraine’s admittance to the organization would give NATO access to missiles that need just seven minutes to reach Moscow and other points of interest in Russia, the Associated
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Exploiting the Death of a Child to Justify Violence On 2 April, a four-year-old boy was killed outside the village of Oleksandrivske, some 40 km outside Donetsk in the non-government-controlled area. On 7 April, a team from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission, SMM, examined a fresh impact crater. The team reported its findings(opens in a new tab) 8 April: The
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Money — or rather corruption, the nexus of money and power in the way it existed during the Dark Ages in Europe — is the ideology of the new Age of Dictators. Vladimir Putin is driven by massive, pathological greed. Ukraine has been stuck in the post-Soviet limbo because of the greed of its oligarchs and the venality of its
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G7 leaders have called on Russia to remove Russian forces from Ukraine’s eastern border and occupied Crimea, according to a joint statement following the G7 summit in Britain. “” We reaffirm our support for Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders. We call on Russia to reduce tensions and act in accordance with its international obligations, and to withdraw Russian
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The Geneva summit is scheduled for June 16. Russian President Vladimir Putin has voiced his expectations for a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in Geneva next week. This has been reported by the Russian news agency RBC. Putin hopes that the Russian Federation and the United States will resume “personal contacts” and “direct dialogue.” He also expects to “create
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Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Sunday that residents of the Russian capital who get their first coronavirus jab will now take part in a lottery to win a car. The move comes as authorities seek to speed up Russia’s vaccination drive that has stagnated while new infections in Moscow and across the country are on the rise. “From June 14
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Article contains Russian BS! Eva Bartlett Eva Bartlett is a Canadian independent journalist and activist. She has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Palestine (where she lived for nearly four years). Address issues which Ukraine, the West’s client state, does not like and you could end up on a ‘hit
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By RFE/RL | June 11, 2021 This article was originally published June 11, 2021, on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. The U.S. Defense Department announced on June 11 a new military assistance package for Ukraine. The Pentagon said the $150 million package would “enhance the lethality, command and control, and situational awareness” of Ukrainian forces. The “defensive lethal assistance” includes counter-artillery
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located in the occupied territory, a Russian mercenary in a state of alcoholic intoxication fired at his colleagues, after which he committed suicide, OTG Sever reports . According to their information, a fight broke out first, which later turned into shooting. At that moment, one of the invaders shot at a colleague, as a result of which his friend died on the spot. “After
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