Новости за 15.10.2017

The head of NATO warned the world against the war with North Korea. This was reported by  DW. “The military conflict with the DPRK will have devastating consequences,” said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, speaking at the headquarters of the organization in Brussels. Read more here

MOSCOW – Russia and Venezuela will finalize a debt restructuring deal for Caracas by Nov. 15, the TASS news agency cited Venezuela’s ambassador to Russia as saying on Sunday. “We are working on the document,” TASS cited Ambassador Carlos Rafael Faria Tortosa as saying. “We expect that we will need a month to conclude it […]

BISHKEK – Kyrgyzstan voted on Sunday in a presidential election with observers predicting no outright winner and a close runoff between two pro-Russian candidates, one of whom is backed by the outgoing leader. The mainly Muslim central Asian nation of 6 million people has a history of violent protest, and the main opposition candidate, oil […]

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin is on Sunday expected to speak at a youth festival launched in the Soviet era, in his latest effort to appeal to young Russians ahead of the presidential election next year. The World Festival of Youth and Students was initiated by the USSR and the Eastern Bloc after World […]

MOSCOW – Chung Sye-kyun, the speaker of South Korea’s parliament, on Sunday called on North Korea to resume talks over its nuclear and missile programme, saying its nuclear tests were a threat to the Korean Peninsula, the Interfax news agency reported. Read more here

BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party is aiming to unseat the incumbent center-left governor in Lower Saxony for a fourth straight victory in state elections this year. Sunday’s vote in the northern state was called after the ruling coalition between Social Democrats and Greens lost its one-seat majority in July. Read more here

In the past 24 hours in the Donbas conflict zone, there were no killed or wounded in action soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Ministry of Defence speaker on the issues of the Donbas conflict zone Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said in a briefing for Ukrainian Crisis media center. Read more here

More than 100 Crimean Tatars came on the streets of annexed Crimea peninsula on Oct. 14 to protest illegal searches, arrests and kidnapping by Russian authorities. Instead of gathering for a rally in one place, the activists held one-person protests in different parts of the peninsula. They carried posters reading “Crimean Tatars are not terrorists”, […]

Head of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC), State Duma MP Mikhail Emelyanov says Russia has not received an invitation to the General Assembly’s session to be held in Kyiv in late 2017, which was for the first time over PABSEC’s 25-year history, according to the Russian news agency TASS. […]

The press service of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine responded to the claim made by Chief Military Prosecutor Anatolii Matios that 150 km of the Ukrainian-Hungarian border is in private property and the border guards are denied full access to the land. “Despite the fact that the plots of land are situated in the immediate […]

“Ukraine cannot boast it has state-of-the-art high-precision weapons. However, Ukraine has well-trained land troops, powerful artillery, mechanized and tank units. We cannot be called weaklings in this sense,” political analyst Yurij Mykhajlyshyn said, speaking on ZIK TV late Oct. 14. Read more here

Ukrainian grandmaster Anton Korobov of team Globus won the European Club Cup in chess, as Ukrinform reports. The Ukrainian earned 2.5 points out of possible 3, with his total score of 12 points out of 14 possible. Read more here

MOSCOW – Politicians from North and South Korea will not hold direct talks in Russia on Monday about Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile program despite attending the same event, Russian news agencies said on Sunday. Valentina Matviyenko, speaker of the Senate upper house of parliament, is due to discuss the issue in separate talks with a […]

Russia’s hybrid military forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in Donbas 23 times in the past 24 hours, according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. The situation in the ATO area did not change significantly at the end of the day. Russian occupation forces continued shelling the Ukrainian positions mainly focusing on […]

This year marks the 150th anniversary of Russia’s sale of Alaska to the United States. Alaska is one of the biggest US states in land size and one of the least populous, with less than three-quarters of a million residents. Among them is a group of people whose story is a classic American tale of […]

Officers of the Security Service of Russia (FSB) detained six citizens of Ukraine who had crossed the Russian border, Interfax reports with a link to the press service of the FSB. The FSB claims that the Ukrainians were coming to Ukraine on Kupiansk-Valuyki train, allegedly hiding in one of the carriages. The train stopped not far from the border […]

AMMAN – The Turkish army is expanding its deployment in northwest Syria with the goal of encircling a Kurdish enclave and reining in Russian strikes in the Idlib border province under a deal to reduce clashes, rebels and witnesses said on Sunday. A convoy of Turkish army troops entered Syria near the Bab al-Hawa border […]

49 people were detained in the occupied Crimea for “unauthorized picketing”.  After the so-called local police “talked to them”, they were released, Interfax informs linking to the so-called “Ministry of Internal Affairs of Crimea”. “For violating the demand of the federal law on gatherings, meetings, demonstrations, marches, and pickets, 49 citizens were brought to the internal affairs authorities. After […]

In a classical example of Russian suggestions that “everything new is the well-forgotten old,” Nakanune commentator Elena Kiryakova suggests that the challenges Russia faces now echo the threats it encountered a century ago, but with one essential difference. The notorious xenophobic and anti-Semitic Black Hundreds of the late imperial period have returned in force, she says; but the centrist and leftist forces […]

A group of ISIL fighters has evacuated the Syrian city of Raqqa overnight, taking civilians with them as human shields, a militia spokesperson said, as the battle continued with fighters who stayed behind. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, said foreign fighters were not included under the withdrawal […]

The situation in the Donbas conflict zone remained almost unchanged until midnight. The Russia-backed mercenaries continued attacks, with Luhansk and Mariupol sectors being the more active ones, the Ukrainian Army HQ reports. In Luhansk sector, the enemy used machine guns near Krymske, and small arms – near Lobacheve. Read more here

Thousands of Ukrainian nationalists have marched through the capital, Kyiv, to mark the 75th anniversary of the creation of the controversial Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). March organizers said as many as 20,000 people participated in the October 14 march, which was supported by the right-wing Freedom, Right Sector, and National Corp political parties. Read more […]

The Investigative Committee of Russian Federation interrogated the crime boss Vladimir Tyurin, whom the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine considers the charterer of the murder of former State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov. This is reported by the Russian newspaper Kommersant, citing sources in law enforcement agencies. It is noted that Tyurin seems to come to the investigation […]

The European Union is reportedly ready to welcome President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus to its Eastern Partnership (EaP) meeting next month. It is the first time EU officials have permitted Lukashenka to attend the meeting. The EaP summit will open in Brussels on November 24. Read more here

Dozens of people have been detained in the Russia-occupied Ukrainian region of Crimea for demonstrating in defense of Crimean Tatars. Lawyer Emil Kurbedinov said on October 14 that more than 100 people had staged one-person protests across Crimea earlier in the day and that at least 34 had been detained, even though one-person protests do […]