Gazprom withdraws money from Ukraine
PJSC Gaztransit, partly owned by the Russian monopoly Gazprom will pay its shareholders 209 million hryvnia, equivalent to 7.9 million USD, in dividends. This was reported by the company in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
Gaztransit shareholders made the decision at a meeting on April 28.
On April 11, 2017, the Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine or AMCU filed a statement with the State Executive Service about …
‘Russian Aggression’ memorial complex to be built in Kyiv
A memorial complex in honor of the participants of the Ukraine's war in the Donbas will be installed near the Pechersk Hills in Kyiv, not far from the Motherland Monument as relayed to Vesti newspaper by Anatoly Gaydamaka, a major artist from the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War. He, according to the publication, will also take part in a competition for the best memorial exposition.
The complex, as Gaydamaka specified to Vesti, will be created under the name ‘ …
Russian Ministry of Justice: The International Criminal Court decision on homosexuals in Chechnya will not affect Russia
The possible decision of the International Criminal Court or ICC on the lawsuit brought by LGBT associations against the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov will not have legal consequences for Russia. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, Alexander Konovalov, Interfax reports.
"What the court will decide is difficult for me to foresee but it should not have legal consequences for Russia," he said at a briefing in St. Petersburg.
Earlier, three French …
Russia to form new amphibious assault battalion in the annexed Crimea
According to the Head of the Russian State Duma's defense committee, Colonel General Vladimir Shamanov, a separate amphibious-assault battalion will be formed in the Crimea by December 1st, 2017 within the 7th Guards Mountain Airborne Division. It will be stationed near the city of Feodosia. The formation of the battalion has already begun, as reported by Russia’s TASS news agency.
"By the decision of the Collegium of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Crimea, …
President of Estonia emphasized the importance of maintaining sanctions on Russia
Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid accentuated the importance of maintaining sanctions against Russia, in an exclusive interview with the DW program ‘Nemtsova Interview.’
"We can say that the whole security situation in Europe is unpredictable and changeable. There is Russia, which has already shown that it is ready to use force. I am speaking of the occupation of the Crimean peninsula. Besides, we know that Russia does not fulfill its international obligations which it had assumed. Let's …