Karasin and Tefft discuss Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
State Secretary, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Grigory Karasin and US Ambassador to Russia John Tefft held a meeting today. …
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Chatham House: "Rapprochement between Russia and Belarus may pose a threat to Europe"
The world media on the key geopolitical events over Russia, Belarus, and Israel
Who is Mr. Groysman?
He will be a technical and pragmatic Premier, who will try not to act within Yatsenyuk’s logic
Poroshenko urges lawmakers to fulfill Minsk agreements
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called on members of the Verkhovna Rada to pass the amendments to the country’s Constitution with a view to "returning Donbass peacefully", TASS reports. …
Are Europe and the US not interested in Yatsenyuk anymore?
The EU is interested in Ukraine which benefits from trade and economic relations with Russia
Pyotr Poroshenko Bloc faction votes for Groisman’s proposals on government structure
The Petro Poroshenko Bloc (BPP) parliamentary faction has voted for the structure of a potential Ukrainian government to be led by parliamentary Speaker Vladimir Groisman, the faction’s leader Yuri Lutsenko …
Has Kiev allowed itself not to pay on its debts?
The Verkhovna Rada has lifted temporary restrictions from its moratorium on the payment of Ukraine's foreign debt, including a $3 billion debt to the Russian Federation. According to an explanatory note to the relevant draft law, 242 deputies …
Kremlin comments on Yatsenyuk's resignation
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's time in office has not been marked by any noteworthy contributions to Donbass peace settlement or the normalization of relations with Russia, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry …
G7 foreign ministers urge to fight terrorism and restore Syria
The foreign ministers of the G7 countries issued a joint statement following the two-day meeting in Hiroshima, one of the main points of which was a call to fight against international terrorism. "Now we are working on a plan …
Arseniy Yatsenyuk resigns
The Prime Minister of Ukraine, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, has resigned. "I decided to resign as the Prime Minister of Ukraine," he said. He also informed that the decision on his resignation will be submitted to the Verkhovna Rada on April 12th. "We cannot allow the destabilization of the executive branch during a war. This will be inevitable if after this resignation a new government of Ukraine is not selected immediately," Arseniy Yatsenyuk noted.
EU urges sides of conflict in Donbass to comply with truce
In connection with the attack on the OSCE mission patrol in the settlement of Zaytsevo in eastern Ukraine, which took place on the previous evening, the European External Action Service (EEAS) has urged all sides of the conflict to comply with …
Matthew Bryza: Only Russia fights for peace in Karabakh right now
Today Russia is the only country in the world that is taking real steps to reduce tensions in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, where hostilities resumed yesterday, the former US Assistant Secretary for the South Caucasus, the former US …
Ban Ki-moon is concerned about situation in Donbass
The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, during a meeting today with the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, expressed his concern about the situation in the conflict zone in Donbass, his official spokesman …
Kiev sabotages Minsk process, Russian Foreign Ministry reports
In a statement released today, the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the Ukrainian authorities of sabotaging the process of a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Donbas. "By artificially maintaining constant tension on the …
What Ukrainian President can gain in the US: expert’s forecast
Washington’s pressure on Petro Poroshenko remains the key factor of the Ukrainian crisis
Axis of Logic: "Washington and Moscow are able to find common ground"
The world media on key geopolitical events over Russia and the USA
Pope recalled about Ukraine in his Easter speech
During Sunday's address to believers, Pope Francis expressed hope for a speedy and final resolution of the crisis in Ukraine. "May the Lord help the efforts aimed at trying to find a final solution to the …
Trump: for many, Russian oil and gas is more important than Ukraine
The US presidential candidate from the Republican Party, Donald Trump, believes that for many European countries oil and gas from Russia are more important than Ukraine. "I think that what happened there bothered …
Peskov states about inevitability of normalization of Russian-Ukrainian relations
The head of the press service of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov has expressed his confidence in the inevitability of the restoration of good relations between Russia and Ukraine. He …
Peskov: not Russian servicemen, but unindifferent Russians fought in Donbass
The head of the press-service of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov has stated in the "The right to know!" program on the TVC channel that not Russian soldiers, but unindifferent Russians who were …
