“No one expects Ukraine to get better before it gets worse, or for the next set of commitments under last month's peace deal to be honored,” writes New York Times correspondent Stephen Erlanger. “Instead, Western diplomats and...
The number of Russians living below the poverty line in 2014 increased by 600 thousand people and amounted to 16,1 million people, according to Rosstat. Thus, 11,2% of the population fell below the poverty line in Russia last year. In 2013 this indicator was ...
If the second Minsk agreements fail and the United States increases military assistance to Ukraine, then the hybrid war will end and a full-scale Russian invasion will begin. You've probably heard the story about the frog: if you throw it into boiling water, the frog realizes the danger and jumps out of the pot. If…
Since March 19, the Supervisory Board of Ukrtransneft decided to remove the chairman of the board of the company, Alexander Lazorko, from his post, and the Verkhovna Rada approved changes to the law on joint stock companies, which, according to its developers, should return control of Ukrneft to the state, the situation ...
The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung put forward a new version of the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov: the motive for the crime could have been his cooperation with the American authorities. Thus, according to the publication’s information received from sources in the special services, “after the annexation of Crimea to Russia, Nemtsov allegedly...
Against the background of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, talk of a "new cold war" has become fashionable. Even experts who have studied the Soviet Union and Russia from the distant times of mutually guaranteed destruction and detente to the collapse of communism say that the normalization of relations between Russia ...
Ukraine intends to suspend the purchase of Russian gas from April 1, since there is no need for this. Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Volodymyr Demchishin said this during a briefing. “Now there is no need to buy Russian gas. I think that we will not be it ...
South Korean automaker SsangYong Motor has suspended the export of its vehicles to Russia. The reason for this was the sharp drop in the ruble and the demand for cars. The company representatives said that the shipment of cars to Russia has not been carried out since January 2015. The fourth largest car manufacturer in ...
The number of personnel participating in the exercises has been increased to 80 thousand people, and the number of aviation equipment to 220 units, said Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Air Force. From March 16 to 21, an unscheduled test of the combat readiness of armed forces is taking place in Russia...
The American concern General Motors announced the withdrawal of the Opel brand and most of the Chevrolet model range from the Russian market. The company intends to focus on the premium segment of the Russian market with the help of the Cadillac brand, and three models remain from Chevrolet - Corvette, Camaro and...