Poroshenko: Ukraine will buy Russian gas on its own terms
President Petro Poroshenko has said that Ukraine is ready to resume gas purchases from Russia.
"What has happened in the past two years? We are energetically independent. They [Russia] are knocking: can you take our gas? No, we are all right. If it is cheap and honest, not corrupt, [then] please," he said during a working trip to the Odessa region, writes Interfax-Ukraine.
At the same time, Poroshenko stressed that, with respect for the above-mentioned conditions, the Ukrainian authorities …
Kremlin: deployment of US missile defense in Japan will negatively impact relations between Russia and Japan
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the deployment of Aegis Ashore ground-based anti-ballistic missile defense systems in Japan would negatively affect relations between Moscow and Tokyo, TASS reports.
According to Zakharova, this decision by Tokyo causes "deep regret and major concerns."
"We see this move by Japan as running counter to efforts to ensure peace and stability in the region," she went on. "Such actions by Tokyo are directly at variance with the …
Moldovan MPs call on the Constitutional Court to suspend powers of President Dodon
Deputies from the Democratic Party of Moldova appealed to the Constitutional Court with a request to clarify the conditions necessary to appoint an acting President, Newsmaker.md reported.
The appeal to the Constitutional Court was submitted by deputies of the Democratic Party, Sergei Syrbu and Corneliu Padnevich. It was reported that the request was registered "on behalf of the parliamentary legal commission."
"We asked the Constitutional Court to resolve the institutional crisis provoked by …
In the prisoner exchange with the separatists, Ukraine refused to surrender a witness in the case of the downed MH17 Boeing aircraft
Ukraine refused to transfer a key witness to the separatists of Luhansk (LPR) and Donetsk (LPR) People’s Republics as part of a prisoner exchange. The witness is part of an ongoing investigation into the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in the skies over the Donbas in the summer of 2014.
"LPR/DPR asked for a person who is actually listed as a witness in the case on the shooting down of the Malaysian Boeing. Of course, we did not give away this man. He remains here. We could not have …
A famous Russian cryptocurrency expert abducted in Kyiv
On December 26, Russian programmer Pavel Lerner, a professional in blockchain-mining technologies was abducted in Kyiv. Witnesses who knew him reported to the police that the 40-year-old Lerner was kidnapped by unknown suspects wearing black masks.
Lerner is a noted expert in blockchains, which are encrypted lists of digital currency transactions. He moved to Spain with his family in 2014 but he also has a residence permit to live in Poland. Most recently, Lerner has been participating in a …