Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that orders the issuance of Russian citizenship to residents of Donbass according to a simplified procedure and within three months from the date of application, writes Current Time. The decree is posted on the Kremlin website; Russian authorities have repeatedly announced it and explained it as “protection of rights and...
American citizens are suing Western Union, Money Gram and the Russian banks VTB and Sberbank over money transfers to the DPR group, writes Voice of America. The family of Quinn Lucas Schensman, who died aboard Boeing MH17 at the age of 18, has filed a...
In Germany, the nephew of TV presenter Dmitry Kiselev, Sergei Kiselev, was sentenced on February 28 to two years and three months in prison for preparing to participate in hostilities in eastern Ukraine. This is reported by the RTVI correspondent in Munich from the courtroom. Kiselev Jr. was accused of preparing ...
On February 27, the Munich Supreme Regional Court began the trial of the nephew of TV presenter Dmitry Kiselev Sergey Kiselev in the case of participation in hostilities in eastern Ukraine. This was reported by the RTVI correspondent from the courtroom. According to the investigation, the accused planned to participate ...
Fans from Switzerland, who were traveling by bus to Rostov-on-Don for the FIFA World Cup, ended up in occupied Donetsk. Journalist and volunteer Anna Dombrovskaya wrote about this in her Facebook post, adding photos with cheerful foreigners in the military zone ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that it should be easier to obtain citizenship for citizens of Ukraine and other countries of the former Soviet Union who want to move to Russia. He stated this during a direct line, writes Present time. Refugees from Ukraine told Putin that ...
The US Ambassador to the UN called the conflict in eastern Ukraine a "textbook example" of violation of the sovereignty of one state by another. US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley accused Russia of sending its soldiers to Ukraine and reiterated the US intention to maintain sanctions against Moscow until ...
The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, was called upon in the US Congress to “start putting pressure” on Russian President Vladimir Putin in order to stop military aggression in Eastern Ukraine. This was stated by member of the US House of Representatives Gwen Moore, Voice of America reports. "Russia's war...
On April 18, the Ukrainian side once again proposed to exchange 23 Russians convicted of speaking out against territorial integrity for Ukrainian political prisoners to representatives of Moscow, but no progress was made on this issue. What has changed four years after the signing of the Geneva Agreement, Taras says ...
The format of the "anti-terrorist operation" (ATO) in the east of Ukraine will be completed and replaced by the "Joint Forces operation". This was stated by the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Muzhenko to the publication of Radio Liberty. “The law, which was signed by the President of Ukraine on February 20, systematizes the use of the Armed Forces for ...