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      DefenseNews: Ukraine pitches to break Russian monopoly in India
      Mar31

      DefenseNews: Ukraine pitches to break Russian monopoly in India

      Ukraine has launched an aggressive effort to manage multiple overloaded armaments and weaponry that New Delhi acquired during the Soviet era and which have become a liability for the Indian defense forces, according to news portal DefenseNews.Armed with the salutations of a government-level delegation (to negate the strains in the relationship...

      TASS: Man claiming responsibility for murder of Russian fighter pilot detained in Turkey
      Mar31

      TASS: Man claiming responsibility for murder of Russian fighter pilot detained in Turkey

      Police in Turkey`s Izmir have detained Alparslan Celik, who claimed responsibility for the murder of the pilot of the Russian Su-24 fighter downed in Syria by the Turkish air force in November, Dogan news agency reported on Thursday, according to Russian news agency TASS.Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Moscow was...

      Info Policy Ministry talks about media freedom violations in Crimea in last 2 yrs
      Mar31

      Info Policy Ministry talks about media freedom violations in Crimea in last 2 yrs

      Over the past two years, more than 170 violations against journalists and media outlets have been recorded in the annexed Crimea, the press service of the Ministry of Information Policy has reported.It is noted that one of the forms of violence against independent media was blocking of their websites on the peninsula by the Russia`s telecom...

      Rada OKs restructuring of business debts to banks
      Mar31

      Rada OKs restructuring of business debts to banks

      The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted in the first reading a draft law ”On financial restructuring,” which regulates the procedure for restructuring debts of operating businesses to the banks, an UNIAN correspondent reported.Deputy Finance Minister of Ukraine Artem Shevalyov noted that the document has been prepared with a view of helping...

      Search for new coalition format: BPP and Samopomich speak about joint meeting
      Mar31

      Search for new coalition format: BPP and Samopomich speak about joint meeting

      The Bloc of Petro Poroshenko (BPP) faction has discussed with the Samopomich faction the possibility of its participation in the coalition, deputy leader of the BPP faction Oleksiy Honcharenko told the reporters, according to an UaPosition correspondent.”We have asked colleagues about their position in the coalition and the government,” he...

      SBU confirms detention of its operative in Russia
      Mar31

      SBU confirms detention of its operative in Russia

      The SBU Security Service of Ukraine has confirmed the information about the detention of its officer in Russia, SBU Head Vasyl Hrytsak told the reporters Thursday, according to an UaPosition correspondent.”According to our information, he was arrested,” Hrytsak said, noting that in mid-2014, the officer was deprived of access to state secrets,...

      DTEK says Russia meeting on Donbas attended by ”advisor”
      Mar31

      DTEK says Russia meeting on Donbas attended by ”advisor”

      Ukrainian energy giant DTEK, which is owned by Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, says Andriy Smirnov, who participated in a meeting of Russia`s ”Inter-ministerial Commission for the Provision of Humanitarian Aid for the affected Areas in the Southeast of the Regions of Donetsk and Luhansk,” has been cooperating with DTEK company as an advisor,...

      Russia says no gas price discount from April 1
      Mar31

      Russia says no gas price discount from April 1

      Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak announced that a discount on gas price provided for Ukraine in the framework of the ”winter package” would not be effective from April 1.”The gas discount for Ukraine, which has been provided by the Russian government for Q1 2016 in the amount of $17.77, will expire on March 31, 2016. The final gas price...

      Polish president appeals for NATO consolidation, urges Russia to withdraw from Crimea
      Mar31

      Polish president appeals for NATO consolidation, urges Russia to withdraw from Crimea

      President of Poland Andrzej Duda appealed once more for a greater NATO presence in Central and Eastern Europe during an address on Wednesday at the National Press Club in Washington, Radio Poland reported.His appeal, on the first day of a three-day visit, comes in the lead-up to a NATO summit in Warsaw this July, according to Radio Poland.”For...

      Russian FSB detains Ukrainian operative
      Mar31

      Russian FSB detains Ukrainian operative

      Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had detained in Russia the Ukrainian lieutenant colonel from the main counterintelligence department of the SBU Security Service of Ukraine, according to the FSB public relations center, RBC reports.It is noted that the SBU lieutenant colonel Yuriy Ivanchenko was detained on March 26. According to...