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Poland claims the body of a Smolensk air crash victim had likely been replaced with another person’s remains
The Polish General Prosecution Office confirmed that there is a high probability that the body of one of the Smolensk air crash victims has been swapped with another person’s remains, RMF reports.
According to the radio station, during the exhumation of the body of Piotr Nurowski, the remains turned out to belong to an unknown person. At the same time, it was reported that these findings are preliminary and were made on grounds of visual inspection and analysis of medical records. There has …
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Obama lifts restrictions on the supply of weapons to US allies in Syria
US President Barack Obama has lifted the formal restrictions on the supply of arms to US allies fighting terrorism in Syria, RIA Novosti reported.
A statement of the White House Press says that the operations involved in supporting or facilitating US military operations to fight terrorism in Syria are important to the national security interests of the United States.
Obama also overturned a ban on the supply of "military equipment" and funding in Syria, which is under US sanctions, a country …
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Former Trump adviser arrived in Moscow to meet with businessmen and 'thought leaders'
Carter Page, who served as an adviser to Donald Trump, arrived in Moscow to hold several meetings, Ria Novosti reported.
"I will meet with influential businessmen and thought leaders," Page said. He added that he will stay in Moscow until December 13th.
Trump announced Page's appointment as his adviser way back in March. A few months later, Page visited Moscow after receiving an invitation from the rector of the New Economic School, Shlomo Weber. According to The New Times, during Page's last …
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Russia will produce Kalashnikov assault rifles in Venezuela
Russia delivered all the necessary equipment for the production of Kalashnikov assault rifles and ammunition,to Venezuela. This was announced by the Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the military-industrial complex.
"In 2019, we will expect a plant that manufactures AK-103 rifles and ammunition to start operating in full force. That means, that any past problematic issues will have been resolved. Although the building is not ready yet, the contractor has changed and …
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NATO battle group in Latvia is fully staffed
After Spain’s decision to join the NATO combat group in Latvia, the group became fully staffed. This, as Delfi reports, was stated by the Foreign Minister of Latvia, Edgars Rinkēvičs. The combat group is scheduled to deploy to Latvia in 2017.
"Now the battle group is fully staffed. The combat group led by Canada will include Canada, Albania, Italy, Spain, Slovenia and Poland. Latvian and Canadian colleagues are now working intensively with all these countries on solving the practical problems, …
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Stoltenberg: NATO is implementing additional aid programs for Ukraine
NATO started implementing a package of additional measures as part of the aid program for Ukraine. This is the package that was approved at the Summit in Warsaw in the summer, as stated by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg after the NATO meeting of the Commission Ukraine in Brussels.
"We have comprehensive cooperation with Ukraine; we provide support in various areas. At the Summit in Warsaw we decided to increase the level of this aid and to start implementing this aid package,” …
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Ukraine to participate in creation of NATO-EU Center on Countering Hybrid Threats
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin, stated that Ukraine will participate in the creation of a joint NATO-EU Center on countering hybrid threats. “The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will create a special platform to counter hybrid threats. We will take part in this process,” Klimkin said at a briefing after the meeting of NATO-Ukraine Commission, Interfax-Ukraine reported.
The Ukrainian Foreign Minister emphasized that Ukraine’s experience in the fight against Russian …
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Ukraine's Antonov aircraft manufacturer offered its aircraft for Trump’s Air Force One
The Ukrainian Antonov aircraft manufacturing and services company has offered U.S. President-elect, Donald Trump, to manufacture Air Force One. “Maybe, it is better to consider an Antonov aircraft as Air Force One,” the Ukrainian company commented in response to Trump’s tweet about not wanting Boeing’s extremely expensive aircraft.
Trump previously stated that the contract between the U.S. Government and Boeing for the construction of the presidential aircraft, Air Force One, should be …
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Kyiv denies that it was asked to cancel Russian black list for Eurovision-2017
Ukrayinska Pravda reports that Olexandr Harebin, the first Deputy General Director of NTU and executive producer of Eurovision-2017, said on Russian media that the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) allegedly urged Kyiv to cancel the list of banned Russian artists.
Harebin though said that the EBU did not make such a request to Ukraine concerning the so-called "black lists".
"I have no desire to comment on any more Russian media allegations, but I will say that the EBU does not negotiate with …
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Ukraine invites the world’s countries to recognize the Holodomor as an act of genocide
Ukraine has requested the democratic countries of the world recognize the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine as genocide against the Ukrainian people. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the corresponding draft resolution on the 7th of December.
“By means of forced extortion of food products, blockades of villages and entire areas, prohibiting people from leaving the famine-affected areas of Ukraine, curtailing rural trade, and punishing dissenters, the criminal communist totalitarian regime …