All news for 12.04.2018/XNUMX/XNUMX

NATO's expansion to the east, contrary to these promises, is explained by the fact that it was necessary to help Eastern European countries carry out reforms and prevent them from falling into Russia's sphere of influence. This was stated at the XI Forum on Security Issues in Kyiv by the Honorary Professor for European Security at the RAND Graduate School. F. Purdy USA Stephen Larrabee, reports PolitNavigator correspondent...

The administration of Petro Poroshenko refused to specify the amount spent by Poroshenko on his vacation in the Maldives in January, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This is evidenced by the response of the press service of the Presidential Administration to the request of Ukrainian News. Before Poroshenko’s electronic declaration was made public, his press service reported that he had declared vacation expenses. At the same time, a specific amount was not indicated, but it was stated...

Co-chairman of the “Other Russia” party (formerly NBP Eduard Limonov) Alexander Averin was arrested while crossing the border with the LPR. The party reports this on its Facebook page. “A Makarov pistol was planted on the co-chairman of the “Other Russia” party, Alexander Averin, while crossing the border from the LPR to the Russian Federation at the Avilo-Uspenskoye border checkpoint. At the moment, he has been in the OP for more than three days...

Ukraine decided to arrest the Sea Breeze vessel in Odessa in order to punish its owner TRANS-SERVICE MARITIME for the activities of another vessel, the Pechora, which mined sand in the Karkinitsky Gulf. It is noteworthy that when the same vessel was engaged in the same fishing off the coast of the Ukrainian Sevastopol in 2013, it took a lot of effort from environmentalists and social activists to extract sand at least...

Prime Minister of Ukraine Vladimir Groysman and Prime Minister of Lithuania Saulius Skvernelis note an increase in trade turnover between the two countries in 2017, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Ukraine and Lithuania note the growth of bilateral trade, the volume of which exceeded $1 billion, and are strengthening the logistics capabilities of both countries,” the press service of the Ukrainian government reported on Thursday following the meeting of the two prime ministers. Groysman noted “an active position...

Political strategist of Yatsenyuk’s “People’s Front” Sergei Gaidai spoke in defense of people’s deputy “anti-corruption” Sergei Leshchenko in the scandalous story of the latter’s acquisition of an elite Kyiv apartment, which became the subject of corruption proceedings, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. Gaidai wrote about this on his page on the social network. This is how the political strategist commented on the photos of Leshchenko’s scandalous apartment distributed on social networks along with a photo collage in the form of a “memorial plaque with...

The Ukrainian-controlled Court of Appeal of the Donetsk Region has resumed the investigation into the legality of keeping a resident of Konstantinovka, Donetsk Region, Konstantin Bezkorovainy, in the officially non-existent detention center of the Kharkov SBU department, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Hromadske reports this. The court ordered the Military Prosecutor's Office to resume criminal proceedings and conduct an effective investigation. Bezkorovayny's lawyer, Zlata Simonenko, will insist on additional investigative actions. "We…

Well-known anti-Russian hawk, CIA director and candidate for the post of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a toughening of the US policy towards Russia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The time for a US “soft policy” towards Russia is over, Pompeo said in written testimony to Congress released by the White House. “Russia continues to act aggressively, helped by many years of soft policies in...

Ukrainians and Japanese have many common problems, for example, the forced transfer of citizens to other countries. Kayuzuki Hamada, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan (2011-2012), stated this at the XI Forum on Security Issues in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Japan suffers from kidnappings. Many Japanese were kidnapped by North Korea, they taught North Korean agents the Japanese language, the Japanese way of life,...

The result of the presidential elections in Russia indicates the failure of the West’s plan to weaken the position of Vladimir Putin. This recognition was made by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania Saulius Skvernelis at the XI Forum on Security Issues in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Our entire policy was aimed at understanding that the Kremlin and Russia are two different entities. Kremlin -...