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A Dutch court ruled on Tuesday to hand over gold artifacts unearthed in annexed Crimea to Ukraine, dealing a blow to Russia’s claims to the collection. Both Moscow and Kiev claimed ownership of the Scythian treasures dating back to the 2nd century B.C., which were loaned to Amsterdam’s Allard Pierson Museum. The museum’s “Crimea: Gold and Secrets of the Black
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The Amsterdam Court of Appeal, which is hearing the Scythian gold collection case on the merits, is due to deliver its judgment on October 26. Ukrinform correspondent in The Hague reports this with reference to the Court’s website. “The Amsterdam Court of Appeal will deliver judgment in the case over collection’s belonging on Tuesday, October 26, 2021, at 11:00 local
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The bereaved are unified in their determination to find truth and justice. The criminal trial of four men suspected of involvement in the downing of flight MH17 started on March 8 2020. It has been a trial that has presented a lot of information about the BUK missile system, its firing location and Russia’s role in Eastern Ukraine. It has
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If Russia fails to comply with the decisions of international courts, it will be seen as a “banana republic” In September 2021, the European Union extended for another six months a package of personal sanctions against Russia for actions aimed to undermine Ukraine’s territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence. In addition to personal sanctions, in June 2021, the EU extended until
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Early on July 28, police officers raided the home of investigative journalist Roman Dobrokhotov, The Insider’s creator and editor-in-chief. After searching his apartment, the officers escorted him to a local station for questioning about defamation charges filed back in April. For now, the authorities have named Dobrokhotov as a witness in their investigation. The available evidence suggests that the case’s
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The Dutch Government has decided to file a lawsuit against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for its role in the downing of flight MH17, reports DW. The Netherlands has submitted all information about the downed flight MH17 to the ECHR. The Dutch government lawsuit is filed with the ECHR in parallel with the individual lawsuits filed
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Dutchman Piet Ploeg lost his older brother Alex when Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over Eastern Ukraine seven years ago. Alex was on the plane headed from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, which was hit by a Russian Buk missile while flying over the Donbas. Ploeg never had the chance to say goodbye. All 298 people on the plane
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A Dutch lawyer, who is representing the interests of Ukraine in the “Scythian gold” case, says that additional information testifying to the judge’s bias and ties with the Russian Federation has been found this year. He said this in an exclusive commentary to an Ukrinform correspondent after the end of the hearings in the Amsterdam Court of Appeal regarding the judge’s recusal
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Russia tried to use the new investigation for propaganda The Netherlands launched a new investigation into the crash of Malaysian flight MH17 over Donbas in 2014. The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Yevgen Yenin said this in a comment to RBC-Ukraine. He noted that on July 17, Russian media spread a fake about the alleged start of a
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The Dutch government is taking Russia to the European Court of Human Rights for its alleged role in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine six years ago, the foreign minister announced Friday. The move is intended to support individual cases being brought to the European court by relatives of some of the 298 people who
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15:40, 08 June 2020 – UNIAN The Netherlands holds Russia responsible, but the Kremlin has consistently denied involvement. Defence lawyers in the trial of the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine on Monday said they needed more time to prepare as public hearings resumed following delays due to the new coronavirus lockdown. Five judges sat between
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Russia has filed a cassation appeal with the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, demanding the annulment of the decision of the Hague Court of Appeal, which ordered Russia to pay 57 billion dollars (52 billion euros) at the request of former majority shareholders of Yukos. This was announced on Friday, May 15, the press service of the Russian Ministry of
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The leaked WhatsApp texts also showed the MP was against Dutch NATO membership. A Dutch far-right politician behind a 2016 referendum on Ukraine and the EU had fishy ties to Russia, according to a new investigation. Thierry Baudet, an MP from the anti-EU and anti-immigrant FvD party, spoke of his Russia contacts in internal WhatsApp messages with FvD colleagues, which
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11:30, 16 March 2020 The Dutch court held the first two hearings in the MH17 case and adjourned until March 23. Meanwhile, the Kremlin leaders have never been so close to the dock. Six years after the terrible plane crash that left 298 people dead, trees have grown a bit at the MH17 victims’ national park and the wounds of
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This article contains unadulterated BS from the swamp dwellers. The usual debunked theories, attacks on the West, and the Dutch judges. The Dutch have always been good at business and that includes show business. Over the past decades, Dutch producers have been quite successful peddling their wares. Mostly TV productions and formats and musicals. However, show business is more than
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Rob Fredriksz, who lost his son Bryce and his girlfriend Daisy, places a sign next to 298 empty chairs, each chair for one of the 298 victims of the downed Malaysia Air flight MH17, placed in a park opposite the Russian embassy in The Hague, Netherlands, Sunday, March 8, 2020.
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14:51 GMT 08.03.2020Get short URL The Malaysian MH17 flight was shot down in eastern Ukraine in July 2014 while on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, claiming the lives of all 298 people on board. The “MH17 – Quest for Justice’ symposium is taking place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, one day ahead of the MH17 trial. Organised by De
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Following a ruling in the Netherlands, Russia says it will appeal the decision in the Dutch Supreme Court. A Dutch appeals court Tuesday ordered that the Russian government pay $50 billion to former shareholders in the defunct Russian oil giant Yukos. The decision overturned a previous ruling from a lower court. Immediately after the ruling, Russian officials said they would
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Dutch MPs have refused to travel to Russia after the country denied entry to one of their colleagues, reports NOS.nl. Sjoerd Sjoerdsma, a member of the Democrats 66 party known for his criticism of the Kremlin regime, was denied entry to Russia. In solidarity with Sjoerdsma, members of the Foreign Affairs Committee decided to cancel their visit to Russia, which was slated
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Dutch leftist MP offered the bill that foresees evading any sanctions or restrictions on the Russian delegation; the document will be considered and voted on late January 29 PACE agreed upon the draft bill on the appeal against the authorities of the Russian delegation in the Assembly. The document will be considered and voted on late January 29, Yevropeiska Pravda
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MH17 suspect Volodymyr Tsemakh sits in a courtroom in Kyiv, Ukraine on September 5, 2019.
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According to Ukrinform, Dutch researcher and journalist Robert van der Noorda has produced a report on Russian propaganda that has been mobilized around the topic of MH17. A key link in the dissemination of misinformation in the Netherlands is the pro-Russian organization “Global Rights of Peaceful People”. It is “Dutch” by name only because it includes “compatriots”, natives of the Russian Federation, who are actively
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By Janene Pieters At least eight Dutch people fought in the civil war in Ukraine, both on the Ukrainian side and on the pro-Russian side, according to a report by American research agency The Soufan Center on the rise of violent right-wing extremism worldwide, AD reports. The report calls the Ukrainian civil war a “laboratory” for the international right-wing extremist movement. “For
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A police officer walks past graves which have been vandalized with graffiti, and a large swastika was daubed on the inner wall of the chapel in the British World War II Commonwealth Graves cemetery in Mierlo, east of Eindhoven, Netherlands, on September 13, 2019. (ROB ENGELAAR/AFP/Getty Images)
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22:55, 11 September 2019 Tsemakh’s extradition to Russia has hurt the relatives of those killed in the crash. Dutch investigators probing into the downing of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July 2014 have changed the status of a key witness, Volodymyr Tsemakh, to a suspect. This was reported by Deutsche Welle’s Russian-language service on September 11, citing Member of
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