Ukraine calls for international investigation into crimes in the Donbas
At the 71st session of the UN General Assembly, the Ukrainian delegation to the UN made a statement calling for the International Criminal Court to investigate crimes in the East of Ukraine and bring to justice those responsible for mass killings.
Ukrinform quoted the statement of Ukrainian diplomats as saying “In light of the current difficult situation within and around Ukraine we fully recognize that there is an urgent need to ensure global jurisdiction, legitimacy and the International …
Polish Navy to acquire surveillance aircraft for use in the Baltic Sea
The Ministry of Defense of Poland has begun discussing plans to acquire new surveillance and maritime patrol aircraft for use in the Baltic Sea, Evropeyskaya Pravda reported with reference to Defense News.
The Ministry plans to purchase three surveillance aircraft by 2023, and three maritime patrol aircraft by 2030.
Meanwhile, it is unclear whether the current government will continue the plan of the previous Cabinet of Ministers to allocate additional funds for the overhaul and modernization …
Auto sales in Russia fall to the lowest level in ten years
On Thursday, May 12, the Chairman of the Automobile Manufacturers Committee of the Association of European Businesses (AEB) stated that auto sales in Russia fell to the lowest level in the last ten years. This applies to both March and April and to the cumulative result for the first four months of 2016. Overall in Russia, since the beginning of the year, 440,600 cars have been sold; a 15% decrease from the same period last year.
The largest drop was in the brands Datsun and Honda, with 56% …
Crimea hopes to attract Chinese tourists
Authorities of the occupied peninsula are waiting for tourists from China for the 2016 holiday season.
The occupational authorities of the Crimea hope that they will be able to surprise tourists from China during the holiday season and compensate for the shortage of vacationers, according to the head of the Crimean Parliament Committee for Health Resorts and Tourism, Alexey Chernyak.
"The first group of more than 20 people visited Sevastopol on May 9th. We are already receiving pre-orders for …
Russia may refuse to participate in next year's Eurovision contest in Ukraine
Russia may refuse to participate in the next Eurovision contest which will he be held in Ukraine next year.
Franz Klintsevitch, First Deputy Head of the United Russia faction of the Russian Parliament, made these remarks while speaking to Russian journalists.
"It wasn't Ukrainian singer Jamala with her 1944 song who won the Eurovision-2016 contest but rather politics took the upper hand over art. And this is the first time it happened so obviously. Next year Eurovision will be held in Kiev …