Ukraine will open all the data on land transactions
Beginning September 1, there will be regular data monitoring on owners and tenants of land In Ukraine; the information collected will be available to citizens, as stated in the government resolution "On the implementation of a pilot project to monitor land relations and amend some resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine", which was adopted on August 23.
According to the document, beginning September 1, a mutual exchange of information between the executive authorities and local …
Chechnya draws up list of singers who may be homosexual
Kavkaz.Realii reports, citing employees of human rights organizations working in the Chechnya, that Chechen security forces have drawn up a list of cultural figures that may be homosexual.
"Two or three dozen names of cultural figures, mainly singers, are on this list. They became known from people who were kept in secret prisons for gays," said a worker at one of the local NGOs.
According to an employee of another non-governmental organization, at least three gay detainees were asked about …
Germany to allocate 1.5 million euro to UNICEF’s Children fund in Ukraine
Germany will provide Ukraine with another EUR 1.5 million for UNICEF emergency measures, reported the German Embassy in Ukraine.
Germany recently decided to grant one million euros for the humanitarian activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees or UNHCR. It will continue to provide support for the UNICEF Children’s Fund project "Emergency Response in Eastern Conflict Areas of Ukraine" in the amount of an additional EUR 1.5 million.
"This assistance is again …
Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany calls on German politicians to avoid ‘freezing the issue of Crimea’
During an interview with German newspaper Kieler Nachrichten, the Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnyk, reminded the leadership of the Free Democratic Party of Germany that the "freezing" of the issue of the annexation of the Crimea would mean the de facto lifting of economic sanctions on Russia, and called on politicians to adhere to "strategic patience", as reported by Ukrainian Diplomat Svitlana Melnyk on Facebook on August 28th.
According to Ambassador Melnyk, Ukraine "will never …
Kremlin’s representative: Russians not happy with delays while trying to obtain visas in American Embassy
The Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, in an interview with Dozhd (Rain TV), said that Russians were beginning to face difficulties in obtaining U.S. visas long before the decision was made to reduce the number of staff in the U.S. diplomatic mission in Russia.
According to her, as early as May 2017, citizens began to address the Russian Foreign Ministry with questions about why the U.S. Embassy began requesting visa applications 40-50 days ahead of travel instead of ten …