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Denmark rejected Russia's offer to divide the Arctic in two
Last week Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Sergey Donskoy said to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he wanted to start a bilateral dialogue with Denmark as soon as possible, to decide how to allocate control of the Arctic, including the North Pole.
But, as reported by the Financial Times, Copenhagen rejected Moscow’s proposal to split the 550,000 sq km-territory between them. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark Kristian Jensen told the newspaper that his country …
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Russia will vote against IMF's third tranche to Ukraine
The Russian representative of the International Monetary Fund will vote against allocating the third IMF tranche to Ukraine. Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Anton Siluanov declared this on September 12.
“Our position has always been open, and today we will give an order to our representative at the IMF, that when considering the assignment of the tranche to Ukraine, we will vote against this decision because we believe that it was not accepted in accordance with the rules. In IMF’ …
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German Foreign Ministry calls on Russia to stop spreading false information
The German government harshly refuted the statements by the Russian Foreign Ministry that German Chancellor Angela Merkel made statements in favor of the nomination of Bulgarian EU Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva for the post of UN Secretary General during the G20 summit in Hangzhou. “The spread of objectively false information on an official level is an unfriendly act,” a representative of the Foreign Ministry of Germany, Martin Schäfer, said on Monday, September 12 in Berlin.
A spokesman …
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Russian Finance Ministry calls for reducing military expenditures
The Russian Government will have to reduce military expenditures by 6% due to a reduction in revenues of the State Budget over the next three years. As reported by Vedomosti citing its own sources in the Federal Government, 1% of the savings will be reallocated for priority programs and projects under "National Defense," which in 2016 is expected to spend 3,157 trillion rubles.
At the same time, according to Ministry of Finance estimates, the reduction in spending will allow them to save about …
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Human rights group: Elections in Crimea could lead to new wave of repression
The electoral process in the annexed Crimea could lead to a new wave of repression if the Crimean people publicly express their opposition to it, the chairperson of the Crimean Human Rights Group, Olha Skrypnyk, said in comments to independent Ukrainian radio broadcast Hromadske.
“The so-called election process in the Crimea may lead to a new wave of repression. If people are going to publicly disclose or write that they do not agree with these elections, urging people not to go to those …