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Ukrainian Regional Development Ministry seeks to improve construction industry legislation in 2017
The Ukrainian Ministry of Regional Development, Construction and Housing and Utility Services jointly with the Center for Effective Regulation intends to improve legislation concerning 55 markets of the construction industry in 2017, Lev Partskhaladze, the regional development deputy minister, said at a press briefing. ”There are 55 construction...
China is more of a threat than Russia – Obama adviser
Ben Rhodes, the Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications for U.S. President Barack Obama, said China, and not Russia, poses a major threat to the U.S. in the long term, according to Al Jazeera. When it comes to U.S. security policy in the long term, ”China is going to be a much more powerful country than Russia,” Rhodes said...
Russian troops attacked Ukraine 39 times in last day
Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 39 times in the past 24 hours, according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. In the Mariupol sector, the enemy fired on the Ukrainian positions near the town of Maryinka, and the villages of Shyrokyne, Talakivka and...
Ukrainian Prime Minister postpones visit to Israel following tensions after UNSC Resolution vote
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman postponed his visit to Israel, according to prime minister`s press secretary Dmytro Stoliarchuk. ”Volodymyr Groysman has postponed his visit to Israel. A new date of the visit will be determined later,” Stoliarchuk informed. As was reported earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday,...
Russian militants continue violating ”ceasefire”, attack in all sectors
Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 23 times from 00:00 to 18:00 on Saturday, December 24, according to the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. ”Most of the attacks were recorded in the Mariupol sector near the town of Maryinka, and the villages of Shyrokyne and Vodiane. The militants...
Russian Defense Ministry`s Tu-154 aircraft crash: possible causes named
Viktor Ozerov, the chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, said the plane crash could be caused by technical failure or pilot error, Russian newspaper Vedomosti reported. ”I rule out a terrorist attack as cause of the crash. The aircraft [operated by] the Defense Ministry, [flying in] the Russian airspace, there...
10,000 social media users currently under investigation on suspicion of terrorist propaganda in Turkey
The Ministry of Interior Affairs has announced that 10,000 people are currently under investigation on suspicion of terrorist propaganda and insulting senior state officials on social media, according to Turkish Minute. In a press release the ministry also stated that in the last six months 3,710 social media users were investigated, of whom...
Russian defence plane Tu-154 flying to Syria crashed into Black Sea. 92 people died including chief of Russia’s military police
The Tu-154 plane of Russia`s Defense Ministry has fallen in the Black Sea, near Sochi. ”According to preliminary data, it fell in the Black Sea,” the source said, according to TASS. The source also said that debris and chassis of the Tu-154 plane of Russia`s Defense Ministry were found some 6 kilometers from the Black Sea coast. The Defense...
Trump aide partnered with firm run by man with alleged KGB ties – Bloomberg
Donald Trump`s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, partnered this year with a controversial technology company co-run by a man once convicted of trying to sell stolen biotech material to the Russian KGB espionage agency, according to Bloomberg. Subu Kota, who pleaded guilty in 1996 to selling the material to an FBI agent posing as a Russian...
Igor Dodon was sworn in as Moldova`s president promising unity and neutrality
Igor Dodon was sworn in as Moldova`s new president on December 23, calling for unity in the divided country and pledging to maintain Moldova`s neutrality, according to Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The inaugural ceremony at the Palace of the Republic in Chisinau was attended by dignitaries from Russia, Belarus, Hungary and other European...