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Media: Lukashenko held a secret meeting to discuss 'Russian pressure' on the independence of Belarus
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko held a secret meeting with high-ranking officials. The participants of the meeting discussed what measures should be taken “under the conditions of pressure from the Russian side”, reported the Nasha Niva newspaper.
“There was a big meeting with the president. The participants decided to stand for independence till the end. Everybody supported this decision,” the source of the newspaper said.
According to the interlocutor of the newspaper, some …
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Poroshenko calls on Ukrainian Security Service to investigate government officials with Russian relatives
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has asked Vasyl Hrytsak, head of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), to have the counterintelligence department investigate civil servants to find out whether they have relatives with Russian citizenship.
The Ukrainian President announced this at a press conference on Sunday in Kyiv, when asked if the SBU had determined whether Serhiy Semochko, first deputy head of the Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service, has Russian citizenship.
“We have a large …
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Poroshenko: Martial law in Ukraine will be extended only in case of Russian attack
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stated at a press conference in Kyiv that Ukrainian authorities won’t extend martial law unless Russia conducts "large-scale aggression."
“If there is no large-scale aggression or the invasion of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation into the territory of Ukraine beyond the demarcation line and the administrative border of the Crimea, the Martial law will not be extended,” TV Channel 112 Ukraine cited the President as saying.
Poroshenko also added …
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One more Russian billionaire asks Putin for bailout
Not long after Vladimir Potanin asked for budget assistance to help fund Nornickel’s ecological projects, another Russian billionaire has approached Russian President Vladimir Putin to solicit a government bailout, finanz.ru reports.
Leonid Mikhelson, co-owner of Novatek and the third richest person in Russia with an estimated $18 billion according to Forbes, claims to be in need of 900 million rubles to speed up the construction and activation of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) transshipment …
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Ukrainian President: Putin refuses to talk about Kerch Strait incident because he has nothing to say
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin is disingenuous when saying that the reason he is refusing a telephone conversation because of the election process in Ukraine. In Poroshenko’s opinion, the head of the Kremlin simply has nothing to say.
At a press conference on Sunday, the President of Ukraine said: “When, during the act of aggression, I called him to talk, he refused to have a conversation not because, as he explains, the election process in …