French banks refused to issue a credit for the election campaign of Marine Le Pen
The leader of the National Front (FN), Marine Le Pen, is facing difficulties with financing her campaign for the upcoming presidential elections in France. As the politician herself has said on BFM-TV, she currently lacks about €6 million in funding needed to run a successful campaign.
"No French bank has agreed to issue a loan for me to conduct an election campaign," the politician said.
The FN leader noted that "French banks freely lend money to other parties. I regard this as a political …
The National Bank of Ukraine reduces the limit on total cash payments per day
On the 3rd of January, the National Bank of Ukraine announced the reduction of the total limit amount of individual cash payments from UAH 150,000 or about $55,570 to UAH 50,000 or approximately $18,520 beginning from the 4th of January 2017.
As the website of the National Bank of Ukraine reports, the limits apply to total cash payments between individuals and enterprises per day and also between individuals themselves under sale-purchase agreements, which are subject to notarization.
However, …
Separatists from LPR receive almost half of the value of coal supplied from the occupied territories to Ukraine
Separatists from the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) receive 47% of anthracite value supplied from the occupied part of Donbas to PJSC Centrenergo as taxes. This was outlined in the conclusions of the Security Service of Ukraine. The corresponding data is contained in the decision of the Severodonetsk City Court of Luhansk region of 2 December 2016.
The Minister of Fuel, Energy and Coal Mining of LPR directs approximately 47% of the taxes received from the export of coal from the above- …
Russian ground forces to receive new Iskander-M missile complexes
A military source told Interfax that the rearmament of missile brigades with tactical Iskander-M missile complexes will continue in 2017.
"In the new year, the scheduled rearmament of the missile units from Tochka and Tochka-U to the modern Iskander-M will continue,'' the source said.
Earlier, the head of the missile troops and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant-General Mikhail Matveyevsky, reported that the rearmament of all existing units with the Iskander-M missile complex …
NATO fighters made 110 flights from the Baltic states to escort Russian Air Force aircraft in 2016
Last year, NATO fighter jets stationed in Baltic countries scrambled 110 times to escort Russian military aircraft flying near the borders of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, as reported by postimees.ee, citing information from the Ministry of Defence of Lithuania. The activity of Russian aircraft still remains higher than before 2014.
According to data provided by the Ministry of Defense to the Baltic News Service, in 2013 NATO fighters scrambled 47 times, in 2014, 140 times, in 2015, about 160 …