Section: Politics
Russia behind attempted Montenegro coup – Montenegrin prosecutor
Moscow orchestrated an attempted coup during Montenegro`s October 16 election in a bid to stop the country from joining NATO, a Montenegrin prosecutor said Sunday evening, according to POLITICO. ”So far we have had evidence that Russian nationalist structures were behind [the plot], but now also that Russian state bodies were involved at a...
A back-channel plan for Ukraine and Russia, courtesy of Trump associates – The New York Times
A week before Michael T. Flynn resigned as national security adviser, a sealed proposal was hand-delivered to his office, outlining a way for President Trump to lift sanctions against Russia, The New York Times reported. According to The New York Times, Andrii V. Artemenko, the Ukrainian lawmaker, who sees himself as a Trump-style leader of a...
Kyiv police free five detained protesters after Sunday clashes
OUN Battalion chief Mykola Kokhanivsky detained during Sunday clashes in Kyiv between police and protesters against trade with Russian militants in Donbas has been released from Kyiv`s Desniansky district police station, according to 112.ua. ”Mykola has been released,” Verkhovna Rada member from the Radical Party Andriy Lozovyi wrote on Facebook,...
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence says Russia bears responsibility for war in Donbas (video)
United States Vice President Mike Pence claims that the U.S. will continue to demand that Russia fulfill Minsk agreements on resolving the situation in eastern Ukraine. Watch @mike_pence's full address to the annual international security conference in Munich https://t.co/ObtU73alva — Sky News (@SkyNews) 18 лютого 2017 р. ”With regard...
Trump`s team in disarray, U.S. Senator McCain tells Europe
Republican Senator John McCain broke with the reassuring message that U.S. officials visiting Germany have sought to convey on their debut trip to Europe, saying on Friday that the administration of President Donald Trump was in ”disarray,” according to Reuters. ”The president, I think, makes statements (and) on other occasions contradicts...
European Parliament predicts date of visa waivers for Ukraine
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have invited their colleagues from the U.S. Congress and Senate to consider jointly organizing in the European Parliament a high-level conference on Ukraine. ”The object of the conference would be to assess the progress that has already been made by Ukraine and how best we in Europe and the United States...
Kremlin source tells Financial Times what made Trump shy away from Russia
The massive western media campaign against Russia has made contact with Moscow so toxic that Donald Trump, a leader who was set to make a new start with Russia, is now shying away, that`s according to a Financial Times` unnamed source in the Kremlin. As the wind changed direction after the White House statement on Crimea annexation, even...
Dutch parliament to debate Ukraine-EU ratification Feb 21, vote Feb 23
The Dutch lower house of parliament will vote for the ratification of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement on February 23, according to RFE/RL correspondent in Brussels Rikard Jozwiak. ”Seems like the Dutch lower house will debate the ratification of Ukraine AA [Association Agreement] on 21 Feb and vote on 23 Feb,” Jozwiak wrote on Twitter on...
European intel intercepting communications between Michael Flynn, Rex Tillerson and Russian officials – media
U.S. allies in Europe are conducting intelligence operations against President Trump`s staff and business associates and intercepting communications between advisors in the White House and Russian government officials, the International Business Times reports. Sources told Newsweek that a Western European country and Baltic nation are gathering...
Ukraine wants to go cashless but the black market rules – Bloomberg
The timing was far from ideal, according to Bloomberg. Shortly after Ukraine slapped curbs on cash transactions to help rein in the grey economy, the head of the nation`s tax service told reporters he won`t entrust his savings to banks, Volodymyr Verbyany wrote in the article titled ”Ukraine Wants to Go Cashless But the Black Market Rules,”...