It is planned that in June the leaders of EU member states will discuss extending existing or imposing new sanctions against Russia. The problem is that at the moment there are both “hawks” and “those who have lost their appetite” among EU representatives, writes Bloomberg. Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland...
In Ukraine, on March 18, the transfer to the reserve of the military began, who were called up for military service during mobilization in early 2014. This was laid down in the corresponding presidential decree of January 14, 2015 No. 15. According to the document, demobilization will be ...
According to the author, the Russian president changed his story about the seizure of the Ukrainian peninsula because for a whole year the West has not punished him for international violations of the rules. Although the statements of the EU and the USA were categorical and harsh. “The economic sanctions introduced have caused...
The financial aid promised to Ukraine is not enough for the national economy to make a breakthrough. This statement was made by the Minister of Finance of Ukraine Natalya Yaresko a few days after the IMF approved an expanded aid package. “The package we received will allow us to stabilize the banking system, but ...
What can bring Donbass a special status, what encourages Russians to seek political asylum in Ukraine and the reaction to the Russian film about the “return” of Crimea - in a review of the Ukrainian press on March 17. Special status Experts told the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine” about...
Ukraine received a $17,5 billion injection on Wednesday from the IMF, Foreign Policy writes. But the biggest threat to the country's economy - the fight against Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine - still looms, and the new aid package...
“Now that much of the information we receive comes through tech platforms like social media (as well as the information that news reporters use as raw material), our knowledge of the world has become vulnerable to hacking,” writes Bloomberg View columnist Leonid Bershidsky. -...
“Many influential Democrats and Republicans from the US House of Representatives signed a letter calling on President Barack Obama to supply arms to Ukraine,” Foreign Policy writes. “This was yet another example of the conflicting signals coming out of Washington in recent months, while...
Vladimir Putin signed a decree on salary cuts for Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and employees of the presidential administration. Their salaries will decrease by 10 percent. The salaries of employees of the presidential administration are traditionally higher than those of other officials. According to Rosstat, in 2014, employees of the presidential administration received the highest average ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin Plans to cut his salary by 10%. Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the country's leader, writes about this. According to him, this can be done as part of measures to optimize federal budget expenditures. Peskov also stressed that this decision will be ...