• 'Normandy Four' meeting in Munich yields no results

    Pavlo Klimkin, who is the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine as well as a participant in the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the ‘Normandy Four’, has admitted that after the meeting held on the 13th of February, “there was not a single concrete result.”  He said that this meeting was only a preparation for the next upcoming meeting.    Klimkin’s Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, silently left the talks without providing journalists with comments.             

    A Kiev political science …

  • European Parliament ready to vote in favor of visa-free regime for Ukraine

    The European Parliament is prepared to vote in favor of the abolition of visas for citizens of Ukraine, the President of the EP, Martin Schulz, said after a meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Munich, according to Glavnoye.

    "We are now waiting for a legislative proposal from the European Commission on the abolition of visas for citizens of Ukraine, which will come after the Verkhovna Rada votes in favor of the relevant laws," the President of the European Parliament said. …

  • Nikolai Svanidze: The situation for Crimean Tatars is 'terrifying'

    A member of the Council of the President of the Russian Federation on the issues of the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, Nikolay Svanidze, said that "the situation with the Crimean Tatars is terrifying”, as reported by Krim.Realii. He said this during the program "Minority Report" on the Ekho Moskvii radio station, which was broadcast on February 12th.

    According to him, it's necessary to respond to the human rights violations in Crimea.

    "We definitely must respond. In the Human …

  • Ukraine and Georgia agree on the need to develop 'New Silk Road'

    Ukraine and Georgia agreed on the need to continue to develop the New Silk Road; a rail route bypassing the Russian Federation, Ukraine’s Presidential Press Service said in a statement. It was noted that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko discussed the issue with the Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili during a meeting in Germany.

    The two leaders “have discussed key issues on the bilateral agenda and agreed to activate economic cooperation, in particular, the development of the …

  • NATO expects military reforms in Ukraine

    The Prime Minister of Norway, Erna Solberg, stated that NATO will continue to help Ukraine reform its Armed Forces, Interfax-Ukraine reported. “We will provide economic support to Ukraine; we will try to support it in the military sector, in relation to the reform of Armed Forces of Ukraine,” Solberg stated during the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.

    According to her, NATO hopes that Ukraine can cope with the challenges and carry out the necessary reforms in order to strengthen its …