North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watched a ballistic missile launch test and ordered the country to improve its nuclear attack capability by conducting more tests, Reuters reports citing the official KCNA news agency. The report did not say when ...
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US investigation: ex-Putin aide Mikhail Lesin died of ‘blow to the head’
Former Russian press minister also had blunt force injuries to the neck, torso, arms and legs, the chief medical examiner said, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to BBC. Mikhail Lesin, former Russian press minister and head of the powerful Gazprom-Media Holding ...
Read More »Barack Obama: Russia’s position in the world “significantly diminished”
U.S. President Barack Obama said in one of interviews published on March 10 that the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin “invades Crimea or is trying to prop up Assad doesn’t suddenly make him a player,” Joinfo.ua reports with reference ...
Read More »Barack Obama: Ukraine ‘vulnerable’ to Russian ‘military domination’ no matter what U.S. does
In one of interviews published on March 10 that formed the basis of an article in The Atlantic magazine, Obama said that Ukraine was clearly a core interest for Russia but suggested that it may not be one for the ...
Read More »Russia to close U.N. human rights office in Moscow
The United Nations human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said on Thursday that the Russian government had indicated it would close his Moscow office, and he decried what he called the shrinking space for dissent, Joinfo.ua reports with reference ...
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