Russia is trying to create a false history that denies the Baltic states’ right to exist, with alarming parallels to its justifications for the annexation of Crimea in March 2014, top Lithuanian officials have said, Joinfo.com reports with reference to ...
Read More »Eurovision 2017: Russia strikes provocative note for song contest in Ukraine
Russia has announced its musical entry for the Eurovision song contest, ending speculation that it might boycott the competition, which this year is being held in Ukraine, Joinfo.com reports with reference to The Guardian. State TV announced on Sunday that Yuliya ...
Read More »Hearings on Ukraine vs. Russia case in Hague over, ruling expected before May
The UN International Court of Justice in The Hague has completed hearings on Ukraine’s case against Russia. A court ruling is expected by the end of April, according to Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, agent of Ukraine Olena Zerkal, ...
Read More »Trump lawyer pushed pro-Russia deal for Ukraine, politician claims – CNN
In a CNN interview, Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Artemenko said he discussed his left-field proposal for Ukraine in January with US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who offered to deliver the plan to the Trump administration. The exact details ...
Read More »US Ambassador to UN hits Russia hard on Ukraine – CNN
“The United States continues to condemn and call for an immediate end to the Russian occupation of Crimea,” said Nikki Haley, President Donald Trump’s envoy to the world body, CNN reports. “Crimea is a part of Ukraine. Our Crimea-related sanctions ...
Read More »Trump called Russia the ‘biggest problem’ and geopolitical foe of U.S. in 2014 – CNN
Trump’s comments more than two years ago, which came in the wake of Russian incursions into Crimea, offer a sharp contrast to the Russia-friendly rhetoric he has employed since launching his presidential campaign, CNN reports. In the interviews reviewed by ...
Read More »Rex Tillerson: ‘Russia Had No Right to Take Crimea’
Speaking with Senator Ben Cardin during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rex Tillerson said: “Russia had no right to take Crimea,” Bloomberg reports. According to The Washington Times, Tillerson also said that the U.S. response to ...
Read More »Dutch court rules Crimean gold artefacts collection returns to Ukraine
The collection of Scythian gold and other treasures from Crimean museums has been exhibited at the Allard Pierson archaeological museum in the Netherlands since early 2014, Joinfo.com reports with reference to the Dutch media. While the exhibition was running, Russia ...
Read More »Reuters Exclusive: How EU firms skirt sanctions to do business in Crimea
Products carrying the brands of Germany’s Metro AG and Auchan of France are visibly for sale on the shelves of the retailers’ Crimean subsidiaries, Reuters reports. People involved in transporting the goods say they arrived via a ferry that serves ...
Read More »Clinton campaign blasts Trump’s Ukraine comments
“While Trump hasn’t mastered basic facts about the world, he has mastered Putin’s talking points on Crimea (which, of course, the United States and most of the world still recognizes as part of Ukraine),” said Jake Sullivan in a statement, ...
Read More »Trump says he would consider recognizing Crimea as part of Russia
“I’m going to take a look at it,” Trump said in an interview broadcast on July 31 on the U.S. television program This Week, according to the RFE/RL report. “But you know, the people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, ...
Read More »Ukrainian government simplified college entrance procedure for high school graduates from Crimea and Donbas
“The procedure [of college entrance] has not been finalized yet, but we’ve got to give these children a chance to be integrated with the rest of the Ukrainian society,” minister for occupied territories Vadym Chernysh said in an interview to ...
Read More »NATO Chief: Alliance to raise military presence on eastern flank
“There will be more NATO troops in Poland after the Warsaw summit, to send a clear signal that an attack on Poland will be considered an attack on the whole alliance,” Stoltenberg said on May 30 in Warsaw, RFE/RL reports. ...
Read More »Ukrainian Radio begins broadcast in Russia-occupied Crimea
Ukrainian radio station “UR-1 Ukrainske Radio” started broadcasting in the Russian-occupied Crimea on 101.4 FM from May 26, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to UNIAN. “For the first time over two years of annexation, the Crimeans again hear the Ukrainian words ...
Read More »Ukrainian make-up artist is close to her dream to study in Hollywood
The Ukrainian Julia Melnyk from Crimea is a self-taught make-up artist. Julia’s dream is to enter the Hollywood’s Professional Makeup School, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to Podrobnosti. Julia has been working on it for two years. There is no such ...
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