Putin: Anticorruption protests are a tool of the Arab Spring
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the recent anticorruption rallies are “a tool of the Arab Spring,” reports RBC news agency.
“This is an instrument of the Arab Spring. We know very well what this led to. It was the reason for the government overthrow in Ukraine, and it plunged the country into chaos,” he said.
According to Putin, Russian authorities are consistently battling corruption, and its level has declined.
“The problem has decreased recently, as is shown by public opinion …
Russian ambassador names terms for establishing military base in Belarus
Russia cannot place its military base in Belarusian territory because there is no intergovernmental agreement. Alexander Surikov, Russian ambassador to Belarus, made a statement to this effect at a press conference in Minsk, TASS news agency reports.
There is “not yet” any agreement, and no base can be deployed without one, the ambassador added. He noted that “there was never” any question of deploying a military base in Belarus.
When speaking about the upcoming joint military exercises of …
Missing Ukrainian property was found on the territory of the separatist Luhansk and Donetsk People's republics
Author: Dmytro Snegiryov, Head of Prava Sprava public initiative.
On March 23, 2017, the press service of JSC Ukrzaliznytsia published a report indicating that as of March 22, 2017, there are 29,375 freight cars, including 5,879 freight cars owned by other Ukrainian companies in the uncontrolled territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. In addition, 226 diesel locomotives, 68 electric locomotives, 49 diesel cars, and 94 electric cars owned by Ukrzaliznytsia remain in the uncontrolled …
The IMF will meet on April 3rd to discuss continuation of cooperation with Ukraine
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will consider the continuation of cooperation with Ukraine on April 3. This was stated by the Resident Representative of the IMF in Ukraine, Jerome Vacher. Later, the date of the meeting on Ukraine appeared on the official website of the IMF.
Earlier, a meeting on the allocation of $ 1 billion to Ukraine was scheduled for March 20, but the IMF has postponed it. Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman said that the delay was caused by the change in the …
National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine conducts searches of National Bank
On March 29, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) conducted searches on the premises of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). The NBU press-service reported that the searches and seizure of documents were done in accordance with the ruling of the Solomyanskiy District Court. However, the NBU did not specify which criminal proceedings this relates to.
Vitaly Bala, analyst at the Situations Modeling Agency, believes that the searches at the National Bank are in connection with the …