Новости за 10.10.2016

Turkey and Russia signed an agreement on Oct. 10 for the construction of a major undersea gas pipeline and vowed to seek common ground on the war in Syria, accelerating a normalization in ties nearly a year after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan hosted Russia’s Vladimir Putin at an Ottoman-era villa […]

Ammar Al-Selmo no longer bothers to identify the dead bodies he pulls from the rubble of Aleppo City. There are simply too many. The dead are given numbers rather than names, and buried in trenches in the city’s parks; often 10 to a grave. Sometimes, as he searches for survivors amid the twisted metal and […]

Head of the National Security Bureau of Poland Pawel Soloch has said there is no reason to lift sanctions against Russia. “Speaking about sanctions, the Polish position is that the reasons that led to imposing the sanctions have not been removed. We constantly defend our position, which is that these sanctions should be maintained and […]

ISTANBUL – Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Berlin on Oct. 19 for talks with some leaders of the European Union and Ukraine to discuss a solution to the Ukrainian crisis, a Kremlin aide told reporters on Oct. 10. Putin is already due to visit Paris on that day, although French President Francois Hollande has […]

Civil Ukrainian volunteers who have visited a hospital in the Mariupol sector in Donetsk region claim there are 11 wounded Ukrainian soldiers there after a massive attack by Russian proxies, and new wounded in action (WIA’s) continue arriving, according to a post on social networks. Information about killed in action (KIA’s) is being verified. Read […]

The Russian Federation’s Legislative Commission has approved amendments allowing short-term contracts with military personnel for participation in Russia’s international operations to combat terrorism. If the law is adopted, the Defense Ministry will be able to contract with former soldiers and officers to carry out specific combat missions during military operations, particularly in Syria. Read more […]

European Parliament President Martin Schulz on Oct. 10 said it was important to remain in dialogue with Russia and not dismiss it as a pariah, but also to maintain pressure on Moscow over its actions in eastern Ukraine and Syria. Schulz told an event hosted by the Passauer Neue Presse newspaper that he expected the EU […]

Russian state TV host Dmitry Kiselyov has a reputation for attacking the West. Critics call him the “Kremlin’s chief propagandist”. And like many other top Russian officials, he is on the Western sanctions blacklist. But the warning he delivered to Washington in last night’s edition of his show News of the Week was, even for him, […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during a meeting with Head of the National Security Bureau of Poland Paweł Soloch has called not to politicize history and stressed the inadmissibility of anti-Ukrainian or anti-Polish sentiments that would only play into hands of the country-aggressor. During the meeting the two officials discussed the situation in Donbas, as well […]

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Oct. 10 the TurkStream natural gas pipeline project with Russia and plans for a Russian-built nuclear power plant in Turkey would be accelerated as ties between the two countries are normalised. Speaking at a joint news conference in Istanbul after signing an agreement on TurkStream with Russian President Vladimir Putin, […]

For a candidate who had just emerged from the most unpleasant and caustic debate in US presidential history, Hillary Clinton managed to convey a remarkably upbeat and relaxed impression standing in the aisle of her plane as it taxied to the runway in St Louis. Even before she came back to speak to the media, […]

The Ukrainian consul on Oct. 10 met with Ukrinform journalist Roman Sushchenko in Lefortovo prison in Moscow, representative of the Ukrainian human rights commissioner Valeria Lutkovska, Mykhailo Chaplyha, has said. “According to our information, Ukrainian consul has met with Roman Sushchenko,” he told Interfax-Ukraine on Oct. 10 evening saying that these data were obtained from the office […]

MOSCOW – Amid increasingly tense relations with the United States over Syria, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia took advantage on Oct. 10 of a routine meeting in Istanbul to advance the Kremlin’s reconciliation with Turkey. His appearance at an international energy conference was his first visit to Turkey since a crisis in relations between the […]

Ukraine became the world’s leader in flour exports in the 2015-2016 marketing year (MY), or July 2015 through June 2016, with shipments amounting to 344,000 tonnes, which is 32.5 percent up from the 2014-2015 MY, according to the press service of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, citing Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of […]

Just three days after Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Lazarenko was taken prisoner in the war in Ukraine’s east, a peace agreement was signed under which the sides agreed to an “all-for-all” prisoner exchange. A year and a half later, his wife still waits desperately for his return. The so-called Minsk Agreement on ending the war between […]

Investment interest in Ukraine is restrained by the unfavorable business environment in the country, according to participants in the Kyiv International Economic Forum held on October 7-8. According to Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine Roman Washchuk, Canadian investors are interested in entering or expanding activities in Ukraine. At the same time, they are interested in […]

The ruling party in Georgia decisively won parliamentary elections, firming its grip on power in the former Soviet nation, near-complete results showed on Oct. 9. With 99.41 percent of the votes in, data from the Central Election Commission gave the ruling Georgian Dream party 48.61 percent of the vote and the opposition United National Movement (UNM) […]

The three summer months of underlying deflation, which amounted to a total of 0.8 percent, have been replaced by a 2 percent underlying inflation in September, the State Statistics Service has said. At the same time, according to its data, in annual terms (compared to the same month last year) underlying inflation in September continued […]

Andrzej Wajda, who mined Polish history to create films that established him as one of the world’s great directors and won him an Academy Award for his life’s work, died on Oct. 9. He was 90. The Associated Press reported his death without specifying where he died, saying only that a colleague, the film director […]

Lawyer Mark Feygin has visited Ukrinform reporter Roman Sushchenko, detained in Russia on “espionage” charges, who said he appreciated support, especially on part of his fellow journalists. “I’ve just visited Roman Sushchenko. He sends greetings to everyone and thanks for the support, especially on part of journalists. The scale of this support has really cheered […]

A powerful cyber-attack came close to destroying a French TV network, its director-general has told the BBC. TV5Monde was taken off air in April 2015. A group calling itself the Cyber Caliphate, linked to so-called Islamic State, first claimed responsibility. But an investigation now suggests the attack was in fact carried out by a group of […]

KRAKOW, Poland – It’s a tough life on the road for new FIFA member Kosovo. Sunday’s (Oct. 9) 3-0 loss to Ukraine in a Group I game staged in Poland meant the Kosovans have conceded nine goals this week at neutral venues. Fresh off a 6-0 “home” loss to Croatia which was actually played in Albania […]

Ukraine’s security service (SBU) has detained a suspected spy in western Ukraine who was alleged to have delivered classified information to Russian military intelligence. The man, according to SBU, was meant to act as a recruiter in Ukraine, seeking to turn a Ukrainian army officer to the Russian side with the promise of Russian citizenship […]

British-born Oliver Hart and Finland’s Bengt Holmstrom won the Nobel Economics Prize on Oct. 10 for work that addresses a host of questions from how best to reward executives to whether schools and prisons should be privately owned. Their findings on contract theory have implications for corporate governance, bankruptcy legislation and political constitutions, among other fields, […]

A spokesperson for the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) said that a Russian intelligence agent has been held in the town of Rivne. “The spy, a Ukrainian citizen who permanently resides in Russia, was to recruit a senior officer from the headquarters of the Ground Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces,” the SBU spokesperson said in […]