Новости за 26.03.2017

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets all across Russia on March 26 in some of the biggest anti-government rallies seen since Russian President Vladimir Putin came to power. Around 1,000 people were arrested across the country as police cracked down violently on the rallies, which were in most cases unsanctioned by Russia’s […]

The Ukrainian military reported on March 25 that an MI-2 military helicopter crashed near the Ukrainian-controlled city of Kramatorsk, located some 700 kilometers southeast of Kyiv. Reportedly, the helicopter crashed at 3 p.m. after hitting an electricity transmission line, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement. Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, a military spokesman, said three crew members and two […]

Mi-2 military helicopter is reported to have plunged to the ground after colliding with power lines outside the town of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine, according to the press center for the ATO Headquarters. Read more here

MINSK — Police in Belarus’ capital have arrested demonstrators who were demanding to know the whereabouts of friends and relatives detained in the breakup of a mass protest. The human rights organization Vesna said about 30 people were arrested on Sunday. They were among about 100 people who tried to assemble on Minsk’s central square. […]

“Thanks to our fighters, national guardsmen for their loyalty to the oath, military and civil duty, and devotion to the Ukrainian people. I sincerely congratulate you on your holiday! “Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wrote on Facebook. Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov also congratulated the staff of the National […]

Thousands of people across Russia protested corruption on Sunday, leading to scores of arrests including that of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. An anti-corruption campaigner who plans to challenge President Vladimir Putin in next year’s presidential elections, Navalny was detained by police as he walked along central Moscow’s Tverskaya Street with supporters. Reuters reporters saw at least […]

“Obviously, for many years, I have approved of at least the modalities of Ukraine’s entry into NATO. I would say, the first priority for Ukraine and the United States is to give Ukraine lethal weapons, defensive weapons with which to defend themselves, such as Javelin, counterbattery radar, and other capabilities,” McCain said. Answering an UNIAN […]

Two civilians – a man and a woman – were killed on March 25 during a shelling attack on the village of Zaitsev, 62 km north-east of Donetsk in the country’s war-torn Donbas region. An upsurge in violence between Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed forces in the Donbas resulted in 81 attacks over the last 24 […]

MOSCOW – Thousands of people crowded into Moscow’s Pushkin Square on Sunday for an unsanctioned protest against the Russian government, part of a wave of demonstrations taking place throughout the country. Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption campaigner who is leading the opposition to President Vladimir Putin, was arrested while walking from a nearby subway station to the […]

MOSCOW — Russian police detained opposition leader Alexei Navalny in central Moscow on Sunday at a rally which Navalny had called to protest against corruption. A Reuters reporter saw police detain Navalny on Moscow’s Tverskaya Street and put him in a police truck. Hundreds of opposition protesters crowded around the police van and tried to […]

Democratic lawmakers are publicly calling out Russia for engaging in war by meddling in the presidential election. The Democrats have been particularly bullish in the wake of FBI Director James Comey’s disclosure that the bureau is investigating whether there was coordination between Trump’s associates and Russia in the influence campaign, which involved leaking hacked personal […]

Anticorruption protests led by Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny have begun in cities across Russia, and dozens of arrests have been reported. Russian news websites and social media reported demonstrations in cities from Vladivostok in the Far East to Yekaterinburg in the Urals. Read more here

The European Union (EU) said on Friday it has allocated an additional €3 million (about ($3.2 million) for the mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which monitors the situation in eastern Ukraine. The funds, which are provided under the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP), will support the work […]

The following companies were included in the black list: Rosoboronexport, 150th Aircraft Repair Plant, Aviaexport foreign economic trade company, Bazalt Scientific and Research Corporation, the Scientific and Production Corporation ‘Engineering Design Bureau,’ Ulyanovsk Civil Aviation Institute named after the Chief Marshal BP Bugaev, Ural Civil Aviation Training Center, and Air Force Academy named after Professor […]

Belarus’ riot police arrested hundreds of demonstrators and dozens of journalists Saturday in a police crackdown that seemed designed to prevent the spread of public discontent over the declining economy and the autocratic government of President Alexander Lukashenko. The arrests, in which those seized were taken to detention centers in armored police vehicles, came after […]

MOSCOW – A quarter of a century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia is finally set to pay off all the foreign debt it inherited from the vanished Communist empire. Keen to establish a reputation of a reliable borrower – despite Western financial sanctions over the Ukraine conflict -Moscow announced last week it would […]

Bulgarians are going to the polls on March 26, with the pro-Russia Socialists pitted against the pro-Western center-right party of former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov. Opinion polls show a tight race, with Borisov’s GERB party and the Socialist Party (BSP) both getting around 30 percent of the vote. Read more here 

WASHINGTON – The brazen daytime slaying of a Russian politician outside a Ukrainian hotel this week brings to eight the number of high-profile Russians who have died over the past five months since the US presidential election on November 8. Among the recent deaths were five Russian diplomats. Some of the deaths appeared natural and governments […]