Новости за 11.11.2017

MOSCOW – The Russian Investigative Committee’s main department has brought charges against Alexander Kopytov detained in the case of the building’s collapse in Izhevsk. He is charged with killing two or more people committed by socially dangerous means, Russian Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko told Interfax on Saturday. “Investigators are seeking a restrictive measure in […]

Georgy’s drug addiction started when he was just 15. Read more here

The post The Moscow Times: Russia’s methadone ban is fueling an HIV epidemic in Crimea appeared first on KyivPost.

DANANG – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Russia would respond in kind to what he said were Washington’s measures to restrict the freedom of speech of Russian media organisations operating on U.S. soil. Read more here

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Turchynov has said Russia began to pull in troops to the borders of Ukraine, which it plans to “repaint” for the UN peacekeepers, according to the Ukrainian online newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda. Read more here

The administration of the State Border Service of Ukraine has discussed the conditions and agreed on a roadmap for launching a joint project with the OSCE Secretariat on combating illicit trafficking in arms, ammunition and explosives on Ukraine’s state border, according to a statement posted on the official website of the State Border Service. “The […]

DANANG – An alleged link between U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and Russia is being fabricated by Trump’s opponents as a weapon against Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday. Read more here

The question of breaking off diplomatic relations between Ukraine and Russia is not part of the bill on de-occupation of Donbas, and such a decision should be made by the government at the request of the foreign minister, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksandr Turchynov has said. “This [issue of severing […]

The ORDLO militants are holding 152 people hostage. This was reported by the representative of the TСG in Minsk, the first deputy chairman of Verkhovna Rada, Iryna Gerashchenko, in an interview with Channel 5, the Ukrainian News reports. Read more here

President Donald Trump said Russia’s Vladimir Putin once again vehemently denied interfering in the 2016 U.S. elections during their discussions on the sidelines of an economic summit Saturday. Trump declined to say whether he believed Putin, but made clear he’s not interested in dwelling on the issue.” Read more here

The People’s Front Party should decide on its candidate for Ukraine’s president in 2018, according to a resolution adopted at a party congress in Kyiv on Saturday. “It is proposed to take a decision that the People’s Front political party should decide in 2018 on a presidential candidate in the next presidential election, which will […]

Former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk proposed significant changes to Ukraine’s Constitution that would limit President Petro Poroshenko’s power. The proposal came at his People’s Front annual Party Congress in Kyiv after a raucous introduction from current Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, who replaced Yatsenyuk in April 2016. Groysman praised his predecessor’s “leadership qualities” by saying he […]

Since the start of the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) in eastern Ukraine, 218,067 servicepersons and employees of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have received the combatant status.  Read more here  

Dzerzhynsky City Court in Donetsk region has sentenced three militants of the so-called “DPR” in absentia to life imprisonment for the killing of a 16-year-old resident of Kramatorsk, Stepan Chubenko, in 2014 for his active pro-Ukrainian position, the press service of the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office has reported. “Dzerzhynsky City Court fully supported the position […]

Ukrainian Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko has said he is convinced that the Russian leadership will appear before the International Criminal Court in The Hague for annexation of Crimea and armed aggression against Ukraine. “Ukraine is at war with Russia. It is fighting not only at the front, but in fact from scratch we started a […]

Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman considers it necessary not to delay the adoption of the state budget for 2018. Read more here

DA NANG – President Donald Trumpsuggested on Saturday he’s done confronting Russian President Vladimir Putin over his country’s election meddling since it’s insulting to the Russian leader. Read more here

President Petro Poroshenko has signed the credentials of 113 new Supreme Court judges, Poroshenko’s Deputy Chief of Staff Oleksiy Filatov told journalists on Nov. 11. “We have laid the foundation of an independent judiciary – first of all, the Supreme Court,” Poroshenko said during an oath-taking ceremony for new Supreme Court judges. Of the new Supreme […]

Speaking after the weekly Cabinet meeting on Friday, government spokesperson Inigo Mendez de Vigo and Defense Minister Maria Dolores de Cospedal confirmed that Russian and Venezuelan hackers have been interfering in the ongoing crisis in Catalonia, and announced that they would be dealing with the issue at the next European Union Foreign Affairs Council meeting, which will take […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expects the Verkhovna Rada to draw up a bill on the Anti-Corruption Court, in which he will submit his proposals. “Next is the adoption of a number of laws on changing the system of justice, including the law on the Anti-Corruption Court. I expect the Verkhovna Rada to present a draft […]

HANOI – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Syria would save many lives after the two met at a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders. Read more here

Head of Russian Federation Council committee on defence and security Viktor Bondarev says the UN peacekeepers constitute “direct threat to Donbas”. He said this while commenting on the recently published information that the US suggests deploying 20,000 UN peacekeepers in Donbas in an interview for RIA Novosti. Read more here

Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said that now he does not intend to join the People’s Front Party or the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko’s Solidarity Party, but makes it clear that he does not exclude this ahead of the 2019 elections. When asked by journalists at a congress of the People’s Front Party in […]

The occupation authorities of Crimea have established a police regime on the peninsula, which violates the rights of its inhabitants. Read more here

The head of the political council of the People’s Front Party and former Ukrainian prime minister, Arseniy Yatseniuk, has said that the party plans to take part in presidential and parliamentary elections in 2019. “Our task is to fulfill our program, which is necessary for the country, and participate in the presidential and parliamentary elections […]

Russian Deputy Energy Minister Andriy Cherezov has announced that German powerhouse Siemens continues to work with Russian companies even after the turbine scandal in Crimea, Reuters reported. Read more here