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Russian propaganda reporters get Schengen visas annulled on Estonia border
The Estonian authorities denied entry to Estonia of a crew of the Russian RTR TV channel – a correspondent Yekaterina Fisenko, a cameraman and a video engineer, according to the press service of Russia`s VGTRK state-owned TV and radio company.The journalists were planning to get into the Estonian village of Vysa, but the border guards at Narva...
Leicester City win Premier League title after Tottenham draw at Chelsea: BBC
Leicester City have won the Premier League title in one of the greatest sporting stories of all time after a Tottenham`s 2-2 draw at Chelsea on Monday confirmed a stunning achievement for Claudio Ranieri`s side, BBC News reported.Leicester started the campaign as 5,000-1 outsiders for the title after almost being relegated last season, according...
Ukraine may get $50 bln from Gazprom – Naftogaz
Ukraine may get $50 billion from the Russian Gazprom if a claim of Naftogaz is satisfied in the Stockholm Arbitration, said Yuriy Vitrenko, business development director of Naftogaz, in an interview with Hromadske TV channel.”The total amount of money at stake in the Stockholm Arbitration is $50 billion, of which $30 billion is compensation,...
Situation in Odesa under full control of Police: Dekanoidze
The law enforcers have managed to prevent provocations and violations of public order in the city, said the chief of National Police, Khatia Dekanoidze late Monday.”Now the situation is calm in Odesa. 3,500 law enforcers are out there to maintain public order in the city, including three battalions of patrol police and the National Guard,” she...
Lithuania reports five Russian aircraft intercepted by NATO in last week
Lithuania has reported that NATO fighter jets conducting the Air Policing Mission in the Baltic States were scrambled five times to intercept military aircraft of the Russian Federation in international airspace over the Baltic Sea from April 25 to April 30, according to Lithuania`s Ministry of National Defense.On April 26, NATO Baltic Air...
TTIP trade talks: Greenpeace leak `shows risks of EU-U.S. deal` – BBC
EU standards on the environment and public health risk being undermined by compromises with the U.S., Greenpeace has warned, citing leaked documents, according to the BBC.The environmental group obtained 248 pages of classified documents from the TTIP trade talks, aimed at clinching a far-reaching EU-U.S. free trade deal, the BBC wrote.Secrecy...
No pasaran: Opposition Bloc MPs Boyko, Novinsky forced to leave Odesa
Opposition Bloc leader Yuriy Boyko and Opposition Bloc member, oligarch Vadym Novinsky, who arrived in Odesa on Monday to take part in a rally on Kulykove Pole Square, have been forced to depart for Kyiv without leaving the city`s airport, according to Zorian Shkiriak, an adviser to Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.”Boyko, Novinsky and...
What the Banning of Crimean Tatars’ Mejlis Means
In the two years since Russia illegally annexed Crimea, Crimean Tatars have faced the brunt of the de facto authorities’ brutality. On April 15, Crimea’s so-called prosecutor, Natalia Poklonskaya, banned the Mejlis, Crimean Tatars’ representative body in Crimea, labelling it “an extremist organization.” Following the...
Memo to Europe: Don’t Fall for Russia’s Empty Promises
As of this writing, the “cessation of hostilities” in Syria has all but collapsed, and thousands of Russian forces are aiding Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s campaign to retake Aleppo. At the same time, the Minsk II agreement between Russia and Ukraine remains, as it always has been, an agreement more honored in the breach than in the...
Ukraine cancels gas price benefits for households as of May 1
The Ukrainian government has decided to cancel reduced prices of natural gas for households and set a single market price from May 1, 2016, at the level of a purchasing price of imported gas, according to a Cabinet resolution dated April 27, 2016.The single price is fixed at UAH 6,878 ($275) per 1,000 cubic meters.The new price consists of the...