The US Treasury Department announced the expansion of the sanctions imposed on Russia over the annexation of Crimea and the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine. The expanded list includes 7 individuals and several dozen organizations, as well as 2 ships flying the Russian flag, the BBC reports. IN…
Almost 1,8 million Ukrainians became internally displaced due to the armed aggression of Russia, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said during a speech at the UN General Assembly on the topic of refugees and migrants. According to the press service of the President of Ukraine, according to Poroshenko, external aggression and sponsored ...
The US Department of Commerce has posted a list of companies that will be subject to export restrictions from the United States. It included both Russian companies and firms registered in Asia. In total, the list, which is posted on the Federal Register website and will be published on Wednesday, includes 81 companies under 86 names. Most of them…
Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to abolish the Crimean Federal District, created after the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. Now the Crimean territorial units have actually become part of the Southern Federal District of Russia. The Kremlin explained this by “increasing the efficiency of the activities of federal government bodies.” IN…
US presidential candidate from the Republican Party Donald Trump said that if he wins the elections, he is ready to consider the official recognition of Crimea as Russian territory, as well as the possible lifting of US sanctions against Russia. German journalist Marike Aden, who works in the US, wrote ...
On the websites of the Federal Guard Service, the Foreign Intelligence Service, as well as a number of regional offices of state bodies of Russia, versions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation have been published, which do not mention the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol. This was noticed by the journalists of the Meduza publication. Article 65, where ...
Former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, in an interview with the Sunday Times, supported Russia's annexation of Crimea. This was reported by bbc.com. Mikhail Gorbachev said that if he were in Putin's place, he would have done the same. “I am always for the expression of the will of the people, and the majority in Crimea...
The so-called “Supreme Court of Crimea” made a decision to recognize the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people as an extremist organization and banned its activities. The decision can be appealed within a month. The statement of claim from the pseudo-prosecutor of Crimea Natalia Poklonskaya said that the Mejlis is set “exclusively on anti-Russian activities, and...
US President Barack Obama responded negatively to the question of whether he considers his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin stupid. According to the American president, Putin is extremely interested in being seen as an equal partner of the United States, since he is “not such a fool.” Obama reminded that...
In Sevastopol, elevators appeared that do not carry passengers, but instead play the Russian anthem around the clock. They do not work because they are awaiting a prosecutor's check - earlier violations were revealed in the operation of elevators and the maintenance of elevator equipment. The hymn-singing elevators stand with open cabins on the first floors of buildings. How many non-working musical ones in Sevastopol ...