1,6 million people were left without electricity after the collapse of two power lines in Crimea on Sunday. The damage caused a total of four lines to shut down, carrying electricity from mainland Ukraine to Crimea, annexed by Russia in March 2014. According to Ukrenergo, the nature of the damage indicates that ...
The Ukrainian delegation made a statement at the UN on the human rights situation in Crimea annexed by Russia, noting that Russia must stop persecuting ethnic minorities and residents of the peninsula who oppose the occupation. “The Ukrainian statement on human rights violations in occupied Crimea was supported by 34...
The damage to Russian industry from anti-Russian sanctions could amount to twenty billion dollars. This opinion was expressed on Tuesday by the acting Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia Gleb Nikitin. “The damage (to industry) could amount to up to twenty billion dollars due to the increased cost of refinancing on the domestic market...
The Federal Gazette of the US Government has published a full list of individuals and entities that have come under extended sectoral sanctions against Russia. Thus, the sanctions took effect. Ukraine's Ambassador to the United States Valeriy Chaly announced this on Facebook. To the extended sanctions list ...
The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released a snapshot of a Russian citizen's passport issued in 2013, in which Crimea was listed as part of the Russian Federation. A photograph of the document with which the Russian applied to the Lithuanian consulate in Kaliningrad for a permit to travel through the EU, ...
Georgia was one of the countries that joined the sanctions imposed by the European Union against Russia in connection with the annexation of Crimea. This is stated in the message on the website of the Council of Europe. In addition to Georgia, Montenegro, Albania, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Ukraine joined the sanctions. We are talking about a package of restrictions that will be valid until 23 ...
Defense Minister Jussi Niinistö in an interview with the Lännen Media media group said that Finland is preparing for the possible occupation of the Aland Islands by "green men", that is, soldiers of the Russian army in military uniform without insignia. This term came into use in 2014 when ...
Russian State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin said that after the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the Crimean peninsula was actually peacefully annexed by Ukraine and remained in this position until 2014. At a meeting with the French delegation, which is going to visit the annexed by Russia in the past ...
The trial of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who is accused in Russia of organizing a terrorist group and preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea, has begun in Rostov-on-Don. Sentsov faces life imprisonment, and he himself is confident that the court will “give” him twenty years - that’s exactly how long, according to...
The head of the Society for the Protection of Consumer Rights (OSPP), Mikhail Anshakov, appealed to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation demanding a legal assessment of the law “on the annexation of Crimea to Russia.” Anshakov’s like-minded people, Valery Otstavnykh and Konstantin Seleznev, also joined the lawsuit. According to the plaintiff, when...