Новости за 10.09.2017

SHEHYNI, Ukraine — The Latest on former Georgia president and Ukraine governor Mikheil Saakashvili’s attempt to enter Ukraine. Mikheil Saakashvili and a crowd of supporters are proceeding into Ukraine on foot after breaking through a line of guards on the Polish-Ukrainian border. Read more here

Ukrainian state-run railway Ukrzaliznytsia halted its train from Poland to prevent former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, whose Ukrainian citizenship and passport was revoked after his relations with the country’s president fell apart, from disembarking in the country. Read more here

MOSCOW — Mikheil Saakashvili’s brash attempt Sunday to enter Ukraine echoes the day he burst into the Georgian parliament with a crowd of supporters, chased the president out of the building and into resignation, and set himself up as the country’s next leader. Saakashvili’s seemingly fireproof self-confidence and headstrong actions brought him both admiration and […]

MOSCOW – Prominent Russian political commentator and writer Yulia Latynina has left Russia fearing for her life, she told a Moscow radio station. Latynina’s car was set on fire at the beginning of September, weeks after unidentified assailants sprayed a poisonous substance on her house outside Moscow and the car. Read more here

NICOSIA — The Latest on Europe’s response to the large numbers of refugees and migrants trying to reach the continent (all times local): 4:30 p.m. Turkish authorities say they stopped 313 migrants on the Black Sea attempting to reach Balkan countries in the last two days, suggesting the emergence of an alternative route to Europe. […]

On the day of Ukrainian Cinema, celebrated September 9, the Lithuanian Oscar committee decided to submit Frost, directed by Šarūnas Bartas, for the Academy Award, according to Channel 5. Read more here

MOSCOW – Russian police detained people from a crowd of about 200 protesters Sunday in Saint Petersburg who had gathered over the crackdown on the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. The square in the city centre was surrounded with police vans and policemen were leading people away into the vans, an AFP correspondent at the scene […]

LONDON – North Korea’s “reckless behavior” is a global threat and requires a global response, the head of the NATO military alliance said on Sunday. NATO has not been directly involved in the crisis, which saw Pyongyang carry out its sixth and most powerful nuclear test a week ago, but has repeatedly called on North […]

Convicted in Russia Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov was transferred from Yakutsk to Irkutsk prison about a week ago, according to the information of Human Rights advocates of Irkutsk Region pravoirk.ru. “Oleh Sentsov says he doesn’t know why he was transferred, he was just “snatched”, and that’s it. Now he is “in the cellar” of so-called “red” building of Irkutsk […]

Ukrainian police are bracing themselves at checkpoints on the border with Poland for the expected arrival of Mikheil Saakashvili, the ex-president of Georgia and former governor of Ukraine’s Odesa region. The 49-year-old Saakashvili has said he is determined to return to Ukraine on September 10 in a bid to reclaim the Ukrainian citizenship that was […]

A skirmish occurred after the appearance of the Femen movement activist at the checkpoint Krakowiec (Lviv region), the correspondent of 112.ua reports. The girl arrived to the checkpoint at 11:30 and appeared with portraits of Petro Poroshenko and Mikheil Saakashvili in her hands. Read more here

Ukrainian public enemy no. 1 wants to stir up the country’s political system: Mikhail Saakashvili, former Georgian president and ex-governor of Odessa, plans a spectacular return to Kyiv next Sunday. If political nervousness could be measured objectively, the appropriate anxiety meters would show strong reactions in Kyiv these days. Based in the Polish capital, Warsaw, […]

Russia is testing the West by conducting war games on NATO’s eastern flank in its biggest military exercise in four years, U.K. Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said. “This is designed to provoke us, it’s designed to test our defenses, and that’s why we have to be strong,” Fallon said on the BBC’s “The Andrew Marr […]

PRZEMYSL — Mikheil Saakashvili’s strategy for returning to Ukraine despite the revocation of his citizenship changed Sunday when the stateless ex-officeholder boarded a train that runs from Poland straight into the Ukrainian city of Lviv instead of attempting to cross the border by car. Formerly president of Georgia and later governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region, […]

Ex-Georgian President turned Ukrainian politician Mikheil Saakashvili is about to attempt entering Ukraine on Sept. 10 for the first time since President Petro Poroshenko stripped him of Ukrainian citizenship in July while Saakashvili was abroad. Saakashvili announced that he was going to try to enter Ukraine from Poland through the checkpoint Krakovets on the country’s […]

MOSCOW – Russia’s top oil producer Rosneft plans to export a record 40 million tonnes of crude oil to China this year, Chief Executive Igor Sechin was quoted as saying on Sunday. Read more here

Mikheil Saakashvili was not the only politician who met with tycoon and Dnipropetrovsk oblast ex-governor Ihor Kolomojsky in Geneva recently, Glavkom says Sept. 10. According to Ukraine’s state border service, pro-Russian lawmaker and NewsOne TV owner Yevhen Murayev was also in Geneva on Sept. 4. Read more here  

NICOSIA – Cyprus police say a 36-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly driving one of a pair of boats that brought 305 Syrian refugees to the island’s northwestern coast. Police spokesman Michalis Ioannou said Sunday that the 202 men, 30 women and 73 children who arrived at around midnight are thought to be the […]

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Antanas Linkevičius called on Russia to cancel the planned West-2017 military drills bordering with NATO countries, as he told RND. “We are concerned over the fact that Moscow sent to Belarus and Baltic border 4,000 systems that can carry nuclear weapons, and not less than 30,000 soldiers. We are worried that […]

Journalist Yulia Latynina has left Russia with her family, after suffering a series of intimidating attacks in recent months. Attackers released a smelly gas into her home in July, with eight people, including children, suffering as a result, the journalist said. Read more here

Ombudsman of Ukraine Valeriya Lutkovska informed that almost 100 Ukrainians, who went to Russia to find employment, but instead went to jail, addressed her, s she told Channel 5 on air. “If you walk out into the street now, on the subway, on Independence Square, you will find an invitation to work in delivery in Russia. I […]

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin and FIFA President Gianni Infantino on Saturday launched the World Cup trophy on a tour across Russia ahead of the 2018 championship, with the head of world soccer’s governing body lauding Russia’s readiness for the event. “To the people of Russia, I tell them: enjoy and celebrate the trophy […]

Ukrainian police are bracing themselves at checkpoints on the border with Poland for the expected arrival of Mikhail Saakashvili, the ex-president of Georgia and former governor of Ukraine’s Odesa region. The 49-year Saakashvili has said he is determined to return to Ukraine on September 10 in a bid to reclaim the Ukrainian citizenship that was […]

SEOUL – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hosted a massive celebration to congratulate his nuclear scientists and technicians who steered the country’s sixth and largest nuclear test a week ago, its official news agency said on Sunday. The United States and its allies had been bracing for another long-range missile launch in time for […]

Ukrainian boxer Oleksanr Usyk held his first match of the World Boxing Super Series successfully, having defeated his competitor Marco Huck. Read more here