The Estonian Foreign Ministry sharply condemned the decision of the Pskov Regional Court, which on Wednesday sentenced Estonian Security Police officer Eston Kohver to 15 years. Estonia calls Kohver's kidnapping a violation of international law. “The abduction of Eston Kohver from the territory of the Republic of Estonia by FSB officers on September 5 last...
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in the annexed Crimea today. A meeting of the Presidium of the State Council of the Russian Federation dedicated to the development of tourism was held in Yalta, as well as a meeting with representatives of national public associations. During a meeting with public figures, Putin criticized the Ukrainian government and ...
Andrey Makarevich, a Russian musician and leader of the Mashina Vremeni group, presented a new song, “We Live With Love Tilki Love,” recorded together with the Ukrainian group “Gaidamaki” and Polish performer Matsey Malenchuk. The composition is performed in three languages - Russian, Ukrainian and Polish. The publication informs ...
Bishkek protested the United States over the awarding of a human rights award to a dissident who is serving a life sentence in a Kyrgyz prison for "inciting ethnic hatred." On Thursday, the US Department of State awarded the 2014 Human Rights Defender Prize to a journalist and activist ...
Some of the protesters against the rise in electricity tariffs remained on Baghramyan Avenue in Yerevan, despite police requests to vacate the center of the Armenian capital for transport. At the same time, some of the protesters preferred to disperse. The police took away from the square a water cannon, which earlier ...
The Russian company Inter RAO denied information about the sale of Electric Networks of Armenia (ESA) controlled by it. “At the moment we are not conducting any negotiations on the sale of Electric Networks of Armenia,” said a company representative. Earlier, the Russian publication Kommersant reported that Inter RAO was preparing to sell...
The Armenian police called on the protesters in the center of Yerevan to disperse and free the blocked streets. At the same time, according to local media reports, the authorities promised not to use force as long as the action is peaceful. Note that at present the participants of the action ...
On Monday night, unknown masked men destroyed a tent camp on the Maidan in the center of Kyiv, set up by protesters. The organizers of the camp called themselves “Maidan 3.0” and demanded from President Petro Poroshenko and the government a report on the work done over the year. IN…
Two environmentalists chained themselves to the anchor chain of the Arctic Challenger in the port of Billingham, Washington state, to protest Royal Dutch Shell's plans to drill new wells. On Friday night, May 22, student Chiara Rose chained ...
From 2 to 3 March, the Latvian Platform for Development Cooperation called on residents of the country to wear sunglasses - both on the street and in the workplace or at public events. The name of the action is “Eclipse of the Mind”, it is a protest against the decision of the Cabinet...