Новости за 13.09.2017

Russia offered a plan to the United States for a full and immediate move toward normalization in the opening weeks of President Donald Trump’s administration, the Kremlin confirmed on Sept.13. Read more here.

Russia’s attempts to sway American voters through Facebook are a “red-hot” focus of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the election and possible links to President Trump’s campaign, a new report said on Sept.13. Read more here.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on Sept.13 held a meeting with First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund David Lipton, the president’s press service reports. The Head of State emphasized an extremely important role of the IMF in the implementation of reforms in Ukraine. Read more here.

ANKARA – President Tayyip Erdogan on Sept.13 dismissed NATO allies’ concern over Turkey’s deal to buy a missile defense system from Russia and said Ankara would continue to take the security measures it thought right. Read more here.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and newly appointed OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger discussed the initiative to introduce UN peacekeeping mission in Donbas in their meeting in Kyiv, according to the press service of Ukraine’s president. Read more here.

Representatives from the French Senate and Foreign Ministry will pay a working visit to Donetsk region. They will be accompanied by Heorhiy Tuka, Ukraine’s Deputy Minister for the Temporarily Occupied Territories and Displaced Persons, parliamentarians, and diplomats. “The purpose of the visit is to get familiar with the security and socio-economic situation in the conflict […]

The US government on Sept.13  banned the use of a Russian brand of security software by federal agencies amid concerns the company has ties to state-sponsored cyberespionage activities, according to US officials. Read more here.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree on appointment of former acting head of the mission of Ukraine to NATO Yehor Bozhok as head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine. Bozhok was presented to the staff of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine by the president of Ukraine, the presidential press service […]

After the house of Crimean Tatar Renat Parlamov had been searched, masked individuals without credentials took him away in an unknown direction, as lawyer Mammet Mambetov said, according to Krym.Realii. Read more here.

WASHINGTON – Michael G. Flynn, the son of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, is a subject of the federal investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election and possible collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign, according to four current and former government officials. Read more here.

A district court in Lviv ruled on Sept.13 to arrest a 39-year-old resident of Ivano-Frankivsk region on suspicion of involvement in the incident at the Shehyni border checkpoint on September 10 in which former Georgian President and former Odesa regional administration head Mikheil Saakashvili and a number of his supporters forced their way across the Polish-Ukrainian […]

Ukraine may seek the extradition of deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Akhtem Chiygoz, who is convicted in Russian-annexed Crimea, Chairman of the Mejlis and Member of Parliament of Ukraine from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction Refat Chubarov has said. “We and lawyers have already drawn up a further plan how […]

The young composer Bohdan Sehin composed a work for the Beethovenfest that revisits the rich folklore of Galicia, the historical region surrounding Lviv. Read more here.

Running short on coal, Ukraine on Sept.13 started importing the material from the United States, authorities have said. Read more here.

MOSCOW – Russian authorities evacuated people from dozens of buildings in Moscow on Sept.13 after a flurry of anonymous phone calls asserting the locations had been mined, RIA news agency reported. Read more here.

Russian lawyer Andrey Sabinin who defends arrested in Russia Ukrainian Pavlo Gryb said that the decision on Gryb’s arrest till October 17 was taken in absentia. He said this to Radio Liberty. Read more here.

WARSAW, Poland — A shipment of U.S. military equipment has been unloaded at a Baltic Sea port in Poland as Russia prepares to conduct war games across the border in Belarus. Read more here.

A possible UN peacekeeping force in the Donbas should be deployed on the line of contact and on the border with Russia so as to prevent the transfer of manpower and arms from Russia to the occupied territory, former Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius has said. Read more here.

Plans are afoot in the Kremlin to replace the leaders of the Russian-occupied territories in the Donbas, Oleksandr Zakharchenko in Donetsk and Igor Plotnitsky in Luhansk, according to several sources. The move may even be a prelude to a wider settlement of Russia’s war on Ukraine in the Donbas, the unconfirmed reports indicate. Novosti Donbassa, […]

MOSCOW – Moscow’s Basmanny court has extended the arrest of 12 pieces of property belonging to Roshen Corporation, which belongs to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. The property belongs to OJSC Roshen Lipetsk Confectionery Plant. “On the motion of investigators, the arrest of 12 pieces of property has been extended until Dec. 13,” the court’s press […]

Schools, government buildings and shopping malls in more than a dozen Russian cities continue to be evacuated four days after local authorities started receiving anonymous bomb threats, the Interfax news agency reported on Sept. 13. Read more here.

The European Parliament on Sept. 13, has signed a decision on granting Ukraine additional trade preferences, according to an UNIAN correspondent. Read more here.

PFORZHEIM, Germany — A nationalist party that wants Germany to close its borders to migrants, leave Europe’s common currency and end sanctions against Russia is predicted to enter Parliament for the first time this month, propelled by voters’ anger at Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to let over a million refugees into the country since 2015. […]

Kyiv has become the backdrop of yet another commercial for a big foreign brand – this time a video advertising the new Apple Watch Series 3. The screening of the video was a part of the latest presentation of company’s new products held on Sept. 12 in Apple Park, the corporate headquarters in Cupertino, California, […]

The outgoing United States Ambassador to Russia, John Tefft, just weeks before his departure, has said he has mixed feelings about the state of the U.S.-Russia relationship but holds out hope for progress. Read more here.