Новости за 02.11.2017

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by phone on November 2 it was unacceptable to politicize the work of chemical weapons inspectors in Syria, Russia’s foreign ministry said. Read more here. 

Ukrainian consul met in a Russian colony on November 1 with the illegally convicted Crimean citizen of Ukraine Ruslan Zeitullayev, who was charged with creating a unit of the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization banned in Russia. “Yesterday, due to the actions of our consuls, we managed to visit Zeytullayev in Bashkortostan … In general, he did […]

Russia’s bailed-out bank Otkritie will not repay $500 million of loans raised in Ireland, potentially making it harder for other Russian private banks to borrow abroad and casting a cloud over Dublin as a “shadow banking” hub. Read more here. 

The share of private suppliers of weapons in keeping with Ukraine’s state defense order drawn up by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry has increased to 55 percent in 2017 from 40 percent in 2014 when Russia unleashed aggression against Ukraine. Read more here. 

Resolutions of the Parliamentary Assembly Euronest in support of Ukraine’s struggle against the Russian aggression, adopted in the framework of the sixth session of the PA in the Verkhovna Rada on October 29 – November 1, will be presented in the European Parliament, Petro Poroshenko Bloc member Dmytro Lubynets has said. “It is important that […]

Sam Clovis, a top adviser to President Donald Trump during his election campaign, on November 2 withdrew his candidacy for a senior administration post, just days after he was linked to another aide who pleaded guilty in the probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election. In a letter to Trump describing his decision, […]

Minister of the National Defense of Canada Harjit Sajjan appeared in public wearing vyshyvanka, the Ukrainian national embroidered shirt; apparently, it was his tribute to Ukraine, as Canada marked the Ukrainian Day. The official posted the photos at Twitter, adding the writing in Ukrainian language. Read more here. 

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman met on November 2 to discuss bilateral relations and international security issues, TASS news agency cited Russia’s defense ministry as saying. Read more here.

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Oleksandr Turchynov, during a meeting in Kyiv on November 2 with a group of foreign strategic advisors from NATO member countries, discussed the expansion of Ukraine’s cooperation with the member countries of the Alliance in a number of directions. “During the meeting, cooperation in the […]

A free-wheeling energy consultant once listed by Donald Trump as a foreign policy adviser during the presidential campaign is to be interviewed November 2 by the House Intelligence Committee looking into Russian involvement in the 2016 election. The appearance by Carter Page has taken on added significance after the disclosure earlier this week that another […]

Sam Clovis, an early backer of President Donald Trump caught up in the special counsel’s Russia investigation, has withdrawn his nomination to be a top official in the Agriculture Department, according to the White House. Clovis, a former fighter pilot and conservative talk-radio host from Iowa, brought into the Trump campaign George Papadopoulos, who has […]

Investigative bodies in Dagestan have completed the investigation into a criminal case against local resident Firuz Mirzoyev, who is charged with participating in the armed conflict in Ukraine, Rasul Temirbekov, senior aide to the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the region, told Interfax. “Investigators have found that Firuz Mirzoyev, a resident of Dagestan, […]

Spain’s high court has ordered eight former ministers from Catalonia’s dissolved government be detained without bail, while the state prosecutor sought a Europe-wide arrest warrant for ousted leader Carles Puigdemont. Puigdemont left Spain and appeared in Brussels on October 30, the same day Spain’s state prosecutor announced he was seeking charges of rebellion, sedition and […]

 The U.S. Justice Department has gathered enough evidence to charge six members of the Russian government in the hacking of Democratic National Committee computers before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the Wall Street Journal reported on November 2, citing people familiar with the investigation. Federal agents and prosecutors in Washington, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and San Francisco […]

Sam Clovis, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the Department of Agriculture’s chief scientist, withdrew himself from consideration November 2, the White House announced. “We respect Mr. Clovis’ decision to withdraw his nomination,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement to pool reporters. Read more here.

Two Russian women accused of enslaving women for sex work in Bahrain have been deported to Russia from the Gulf state. The Russian Interior Ministry said the women were arrested by Bahraini police after an alert via Interpol. Read more here. 

Ukrainian prosecutors intend to ask the U.S. Justice Department for permission to interview President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, following his indictment earlier this week, an official said. Prosecutors also want U.S. authorities to share any evidence they might have pertaining to an ongoing criminal investigation of a former justice minister, Serhiy Gorbatyuk, […]

Viktor Yermolayev has stood bail for ex-chief of the State Agency for Investment and National Projects Vladyslav Kaskiv in the amount of Hr 160,000 (about $6,000). Spokeswoman for the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine Larysa Sarhan said this on the air of 112 Ukraine TV channel. Read more here. 

 Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine Yuriy Brovchenko has said the start of production of 155mm shells using NATO standards is planned for the second quarter of 2019. In an interview published by the Kyiv-based online edition Delo.ua, Brovchenko said steps toward purchasing production lines for 100-155 mm shells have been taken. […]

The election of the head of the Constitutional Court, which was scheduled for November 2, has not taken place, reads a statement posted on the court website. At the same time, court spokesperson Natalia Mukha told Ukrinform that acting court head Viktor Kryvenko had appointed a meeting to elect the court chairman, but it had […]

Ukraine has launched the procedure for the extradition to Georgia of a former official of the Georgian Interior Ministry, who was detained in Ukraine on November 1, the press center of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has reported. “According to a ruling of the Halytsky district court of Ivano-Frankivsk region, a measure of restraint was […]

The National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting is not considering the encoding of open digital broadcast television, a member of the Council Oleksandr Iliashenko has said. “Today the issue of encoding T2 is not considered and was not considered. The issue of creating an encoded package in T2 is being mulled,” he said at […]

Eight sacked Catalan ministers have been jailed by a Spanish judge over the region’s push for independence. Read more here.

WASHINGTON — Accused of multiple financial crimes, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman on Nov. 2 attacked the strength of the evidence against him, saying the case brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is “embellished.” Read more here.

Spain’s state prosecutor has asked a judge to issue a European arrest warrant for the deposed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and four of his former regional ministers after they failed to return from Belgium to testify in court. Read more here.