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Self-defense forces of the self-proclaimed unrecognized Donetsk People’s Republic will continue unilateral withdrawal of heavy artillery as of Friday, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry of the DPR, Eduard Basurin, said.
Canada announced new sanctions against Russia in relation to the situation in Ukraine. The list includes names of 37 individuals and 17 entities from Russia and Ukraine.
The Chief Prosecutor's office of the Donetsk People's Republic has initiated criminal proceedings under the criminal code against President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Secretary of the RNBO Oleksandr Turchynov. They are suspected of starting the war in the Donbass.
NATO has evidence that Russia is helping the militia and self-proclaimed DPR and LPR, including with a military presence, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
Neither the Ukrainian army nor the militias could achieve their military goals in Debaltsevo
They will only prolong the conflict and make it more murderous
The confrontation of “volunteers” could continue in Georgia itself
Kiev and the self-proclaimed representatives of the DNR have accused each other of presenting ultimatums …
Orhan Sattarov, director of the European Bureau of "Vestnik Kavkaza"A recent working visit of the President of Azerbaijan to Germany, after which Ilham Aliyev went to Davos, Switzerland, has left a lot of information to think about. For obvious reasons, many details of the negotiations and agreements were reached "behind closed doors". However, some results of the visit are evident today.
Gorlovka, a city in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk, has been fired at by the Ukrainian army for a day now. DPR representatives told today that there are civilians killed.One of the artillery shells hit public transport, another - the fire department and also damaged four schools and a kindergarten, RIA Novosti reports.
According to a survey conducted by "Levada Center", Vladimir Putin has been named "Man of the Year" in Russia for the seventh time. The poll was on held December 19-22, its participants were 1,600 people in 134 settlements of 46 regions of the country.
Escalations in Nagorno-Karabakh, tensions with West, partnership with Russia, the struggle for the European gas market, prevention of religious extremism, attempts to revamp relations with Tehran
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the LDPR faction in the Russian State Duma, has sent a congratulation letter to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. He said in the letter that Aliyev had spent many years serving the interests of Azerbaijan, and proven himself to be a decisive and principled politician, professional and wise, Trend reports.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the LDPR leader, shared his view on the sanctions launched against Russia. The politician states that such measures enabled the USSR in the early 20th century to make an industrial breakthrough. So Russian has an opportunity to produce all necessary goods by itself.
Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the LDPR, the leader of the party, its main mastermind Vladimir Zhirinovsky, held a press conference at which the politician stated that he wanted to change the faction’s name.
