President of Georgia expressed confidence that his country will join NATO
The President of Georgia, Giorgi Margvelashvili, expressed confidence that soon, "Georgia, undoubtedly, will become a member of NATO."
Speaking at the opening of joint military exercises, Noble Partner 2016, with the United States of America and Great Britain he declared that these exercises are a "continuation of our policy on rapprochement with NATO."
About 500 Georgian, 650 American and 150 British soldiers are taking part in the exercises. The official purpose of the exercises is the …
Ukrainian Parliament urges international community to recognize the genocide of the Crimean Tatars
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine appealed to the UN, the European Parliament, PACE, the OSCE and world leaders to honor the memory of the victims of the Crimean Tatar genocide and to condemn the ongoing violations of the rights and freedoms of Crimean Tatars.
240 members of Parliament voted in favor of the resolution on May 11th. It was supported by the Opposition Bloc party, the Vidrodzhenya party and the majority of the deputies of the Radical party.
According to the document, Parliament is …
Ukrainian representative in the UN accused Russia of supporting terrorism
The Russian Federation has been conducting subversive activities against Ukraine for more than two years, according to the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations (UN), Volodymyr Yelchenko. He said this on Wednesday during a meeting of the UN Security Council.
“For more than two years, Ukraine has been a victim of aggression by its neighbor, the Russian Federation. Russia has occupied, and illegally annexed, the Ukrainian territories of Crimea and Sevastopol. It continues …
Two Ukrainian prisoners being held in Russian penal colonies were transferred to Moscow
According to Radio Svoboda, Gennady Afanasiev’s lawyer, Alexander Popkov, reported that the two illegally convicted Ukrainians, Gennady Afanasiev and Yury Soloshenko, were transferred from penal colonies where they were serving their sentences to the Lefortovo detention center in Moscow. Afanasiev was brought from Syktyvkar by plane and Soloshenko came by train from Nizhny Novgorod.
Popkov hopes that the transfer of his defendant is connected with the extradition process that was initiated by …
Ukrainian MFA: Events in the French Parliament may lead to the lifting of sanctions on Russia
Officials in the lower house of the French Parliament have put forward a proposal to abandon pressure on Russia through economic sanctions. This may lead to sanctions being lifted altogether.
The Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine for European Integration, Olena Zerkal, discussed the issue on Channel 5 on Wednesday. When asked about the prospect of continuing European sanctions against Russia, she responded that she thought “it will not be easy, especially given the recent events that took …