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Ukraine tightens entry conditions for Russians
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has brought into effect a ruling by the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) from March 1, 2018, which tightens the conditions for Russian citizens to enter Ukraine, as announced on the president’s official website.
The ruling envisages the creation of a mechanism to carry out a preliminary check on the reasons for entering Ukraine. Citizens from the list of migration risk countries, and Russia especially, will have to inform the Ukrainian …
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President of European Council Tusk refuses to congratulate Putin on winning the election
On Wednesday, March 21, the President of the European Council Donald Tusk said that because of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter, he will not congratulate the president of Russia on re-election, RIA Novosti reported.
"After the attack in Salisbury, I have no mood to celebrate the re-election of President Putin," Tusk said, answering questions from journalists in Brussels on Wednesday.
Tusk is not alone in his sentiments. The President of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaitė and Polish …
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Russia restricts the entry of trucks at Ukrainian border
Russia has restricted the entry of trucks through the checkpoints in the Belgorod and Voronezh regions at the border with Ukraine due to software failure, State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reports.
As a result, "a backlog of freight vehicles" is recorded. There were 45 trucks at the checkpoint in the Kharkiv region, and in the Sumy region, there were 35 trucks.
A similar incident occurred in mid-February. At that time, more than a hundred trucks accumulated at the border of Russia’s …
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Russia says UK authorities 'staged' poisoning of Skripal
The Russian Ministry of the Interior said that UK authorities themselves may have “staged” the attack on former intelligence agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, who were poisoned in Salisbury.
This was stated by the director of the Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry Vladimir Ermakov, reported Nastoyashaya Vremya.
“Here, elementary logic suggests only two possible options: the British authorities either are not able to provide protection …
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Russia's Gazprom to file new case in arbitration court over Ukraine’s seizure of its assets
Gazprom considers the arrest of its Ukrainian assets to be an attempt to illegally seize its property under the pretext of implementing the ruling made by the Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMKU) in 2016.
“Gazprom does not recognize the legitimacy of the fine, and considers Ukraine’s actions to be an infringement of its rights,” the company’s report states.
The Russian gas company intends to file a new case at an international arbitration court in connection with the Ukrainian …