Russia negotiating deployment of Kyrgyz and Kazakh contingents in Syria
According to the head of the State Duma Defense Committee Vladimir Shamanov , Moscow is negotiating with Astana and Bishkek on the deployment of troops from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in the de-escalation zones in Syria, as reported by RIA Novosti.
Shamanov sad that the Russian authorities are also in similar negotiations with Turkey.
“Negotiations are under way now, and the question is being worked out to ensure that the Russian military police take part in keeping order in Syria, as well as …
State Department: US concerned about actions of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine
State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said on Thursday that the US is deeply concerned about the alarming pattern of violence and brutality on the part of Russia-supported separatists in eastern Ukraine toward unarmed civilian employees of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission.
Recently, she continued, in the east of Ukraine, a number of incidents have taken place in which the participants of the Monitoring Mission have been harassed, threatened, and subjected to shelling. This happened, …
Ukraine: Crimean Tatar leader Chiygoz’s prolonged incarceration is further evidence of existing injustice in Crimea
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry believes that the extension of the arrest of Akhtem Chiygoz, one of the leaders of the Crimean Tatar movement, until October 8, is further evidence of injustice in the annexed Crime, as stated by Mariana Betsa, official spokesperson for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, in a comment for Krym Realii.
“The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry decisively condemns the occupation authorities of the Crimea for extending the preventive measures with respect to the detention of …
Putin to visit construction of Turkish Stream gas pipeline
On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a business trip to Krasnodar Krai. As reported by the Kremlin’s press service, in Anapa the head of state will inspect the work which is underway on the laying of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline.
“The President will observe the joining of the shallow and the deep-water parts of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline from on board the pipe-laying vessel the ‘Pioneering Spirit’,” the Kremlin noted.
The Pioneering Spirit is the largest construction …
Crimean authorities discourage residents from obtaining Ukrainian biometric passports by threatening them with arrest on the mainland of Ukraine
The Deputy Prime Minister of the annexed Crimea, Georgy Muradov says that residents of the peninsula who wish to receive a Ukrainian biometric passport for traveling abroad can face arrests on the mainland of Ukraine.
"I want to warn all people that this is not just an outright provocation, but also a great danger. Half will be arrested and then people will cry and say ‘What have I done?’ We should not succumb to these provocations," Muradov said on "Sputnik in the Crimea" radio, RIA Novosti …