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Russian court requests 1 year community service for woman accused of posting pro-Ukrainian content
On the 17th of February, the Prosecutor in the Railway Court of Ekaterinburg City in Russia requested a year of community service for Catherine Volgozheninova. The Prosecutor also requested a deduction of 10% of her earnings in the state income. She is accused of extremism and reposting extremist content on the social network site Vkontakte. Volgozheninova is a store clerk and a single mother.
The Prosecutor explained that Volgozheninova received this lenient sentence as she has a small …
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Herashchenko: 127 Ukrainians are still held by separatists in the Donbas
The Commissioner of the President for the peaceful settlement of the situation in Donetsk and Lugansk regions and Ukraine’s representative to the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group (Ukraine-Russia-OSCE), Iryna Herashchenko, stated at a press conference on the 17th of February that 127 Ukrainians are held captive by militants.
“Currently, we have 137 Ukrainians, who are illegally held captive. Ten of them are held in Russian prisons,” the Ukrainian news quoted her as saying. …
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Dzhemilev files lawsuit against the FSB due to ban on entry to Crimea
Lawyer Mark Feygin believes that it is the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) who prohibits Dzhemilev from entering Crimea. In January 2016, the Simferopol Court arrested the ex-leader of the Crimean Tatars in absentia.
Mark Feygin, a lawyer of the former chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Mustafa Dzhemilev, said the lawsuit was filed against the FSB. According to his statement on Twitter, it's the FSB who prohibits Dzhemilev entry into Crimea, and therefore (from the …
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Russian Duma looks to resettle Ukrainian refugees in Siberia and the Far East
The Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East has supported the initiative of the Deputies of the State Duma. The latter was asked to develop a federal target program on the voluntary resettlement of persons who were forced to leave Ukraine for territories of Siberia and the Far East. On the 16th of February, Izvestia reported that more than 50,000 employment opportunities will be created for Ukrainians in the Far East Federal District by 2020.
The preferential mode of stay of …
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Russia transfers more military aircraft to Crimea
According to official sources, large-scale military exercises were scheduled to be carried out on in Crimea, and Russia continues to transfer military equipment to the occupied Peninsula.
During the last week a dozen military aircraft (IL-76) of the Russian Armed Forces were transferred to the peninsula, as stated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU). 14 helicopters and one battalion tactical group of the Russian Army were transferred as well.
According to the Ukrainian officials, on the …