U.S., China agree to sign Paris climate change agreement on April 22
U.S. President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping of the People`s Republic of China announce their countries will sign a Paris climate change agreement on April 22.”The two Presidents announce another significant step in their joint climate efforts. The United States and China will sign the Paris Agreement on April 22nd and take their...
Poroshenko, Biden discuss Donbas peacekeepers, Minsk Protocol, anti-Russian sanctions
The possibility of deploying an international mission in Donbas and the implementation of the Minsk Protocol with ways of greater involvement of the United States were on the agenda of a meeting between Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in Washington, D.C., in the early hours of Friday, according to the...
Ukraine`s budget in Feb sees UAH 4.9 bln deficit due to social spending
Ukraine`s national budget was executed with a deficit of UAH 4.9 billion, or about $187 million, in February 2016, which translated into a combined deficit of UAH 2.4 million in January-February 2016, according to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).The deficit was formed due to an expected increase in social spending with a simultaneous slowdown...
OSCE sees four trucks with coal in occupied Donbas close to Russian border
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine has reported it saw four trucks with coal in occupied Ukrainian territory close to the border with Russia.”Four trucks (Ukrainian license plates) loaded with coal were parked alongside the road,” the OSCE SMM said in its daily update based on information received as of 19:30 local time on...
Al Jazeera: Car bomb kills police in Turkey`s Diyarbakir
At least seven police officers were killed and 27 people wounded when a car bomb attack hit a police vehicle in Turkey`s Kurdish-dominated city of Diyarbakir in the southeast of the country, Turkish officials have said, Al Jazeera wrote.Security sources said the explosion took place near a busy bus terminal, injuring both police officers and...
Reuters: The property manager and Putin`s friends
A little-known Russian businessman from St Petersburg has provided properties to multiple women who share one common theme: President Vladimir Putin, according to Reuters.One of the women is Putin`s younger daughter; two are close relatives of a woman Russian media have reported to be Putin`s girlfriend – though the president has strongly denied...
Poroshenko against severing diplomatic ties with Russia
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he is against the idea of severing diplomatic ties with Russia, and he believes that efforts should focus on the implementation of the Minsk peace agreements, according to Ukrainain news agency Ukrinform.”The Rada will not support this bill [on severing diplomatic relations with Russia], let`s not even...
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
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
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...
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