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Newsweek: 600 Czech, Slovak, Polish and Hungarian troops to reinforce Baltics
Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic plan on sending up to 600 soldiers to the Baltics in 2017 as a sign of support of NATO security measures in the region, according to Newsweek.Following a meeting with his counterparts from the collective of Central European countries, known as the Visegrad Four, Czech Minister of Defense Martin...
U.S. election: Trump `wins enough delegates for Republican nomination` – BBC
The U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has reached the number of delegates needed to secure the party`s presidential nomination, according to the BBC.Its delegate count has him reaching the quota thanks to a small number of the party`s unbound delegates, the BBC reported with reference to Associated Press.They told AP they would...
Chechen court ruling: Karpiuk sentenced to 22.5 years, Klykh should serve 20 years
Judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Chechnya Vakhit Ismailov has ruled to sentence Ukrainian citizen Mykola Karpiuk to 22.5 years in a strict-regime penal colony, another Ukrainian citizen Stanislav Klykh has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty freelance journalist Anton Naumlyuk. ”Both...
Europe’s Humanitarian Fatigue Threatens to Engulf Ukraine
Earlier this month, Jean-Claude Juncker and Martin Schulz, presidents of the European Commission and Parliament, respectively, published an appeal for continental solidarity in which they criticized “anyone who believes that the time of the nation-state has come” as “out of touch with reality.”The inaccuracy of Juncker and Schulz’s...
Reuters: Ukraine bans Gorbachev over support for Crimea annexation
Ukraine has banned former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev from entry for the next five years over his support for Russia`s seizure of Crimea, a spokeswoman for Ukraine`s State Security Service (SBU) said on Thursday, according to Reuters.A spokesman for Gorbachev pointed to his response to Russian state media earlier this week when asked about a...
SBU explains denial of access to prisons for UN SPT: Russian in mission
The Security Service of Ukraine denied access to the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) to several locations in Mariupol and Kramatorsk due to the presence of a ”Russian” in the mission, First Deputy Minister of Justice Natalia Sevostianova told journalists on Thursday, according to an UaPosition correspondent.According to...
Final text of Memorandum with IMF to be ready shortly – NBU Governor
Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Valeriya Gontareva expects that the final draft of the updated Memorandum on cooperation between Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) based on the results of the latest IMF mission`s work will be finished within the next few days.”We expect that the final draft of the Memorandum will be ready...
Coal Ministry plans privatization and liquidation of state mines
Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk says his ministry intends to carry out privatization and liquidation of a number of state-owned mines.”Eleven mines will be liquidated, and we plan to bring back the profitability at 15 mines to proceed with the privatization,” the minister said during a presentation of the ministry`s draft...
Ukraine may file 6th lawsuit against Russia to ECHR
Ukrainian Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko does not rule out the submission of the sixth lawsuit against Russia to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), according to an UaPosition correspondent.In his comments to journalists, Petrenko reminded that Ukraine was drafting its fifth claim to the ECHR, which concerned the illegal ban of the Mejlis...
Kremlin says supports Poroshenko`s wish ”to return Donbas”
The Kremlin supports Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko`s wish ”to return Donbas” for humanitarian reasons but does not accept any claims on Crimea, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday, according to TASS.”If he meant returning Donbas for humanitarian reasons, this statement can be supported,” said Peskov when...