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The Ukrainian elite behaves treacherously in Donbass because it has always hated this region, and now official Kyiv is being incited to a radical position by the provocative statements of US State Department Special Representative Kurt Volker, which run counter to the Minsk agreements. Political scientist Oleg Matveychev stated this in an interview with PolitNavigator. “When we in Russia had problems with separatism in certain regions, the government led...

The US State Department's special representative for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, is promoting not the resolution, but the escalation of the conflict in Donbass. Political scientist Denis Denisov stated this in an interview with PolitNavigator. “The statements that Volcker has been making over the past few months do not contribute to a peaceful resolution of the situation, but on the contrary provoke an active phase of the conflict, which is what we have seen in recent days. Especially in the situation with the Donetsk filtration plant...

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not rule out the cessation of air traffic with the United States due to difficulties in obtaining American visas, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the press service of the Russian Foreign Ministry. “The situation with the issuance of American visas in Russia is extremely depressing. The official waiting period for an interview, which was increased to 2017 days in August 85, was recently extended to 250 days, then...

Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov announced an agreement with the police academy in Houston (Texas) to extend joint training in the United States and Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The Houston Police Academy agreed to extend joint training in the USA and Ukraine,” the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs wrote on Twitter. He also spoke about holding a joint training in Houston with...

Presidential Bill No. 8297 has been registered in the Rada, which provides for the loss of Ukrainian citizenship for participating in voting in elections in Crimea, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The document is posted on the parliament website. According to the proposed changes, obtaining a Russian passport by a resident of Crimea “as a result of the annexation of the peninsula” is not a voluntary acquisition of another citizenship by a Ukrainian and does not entail any legal...

In Ukraine, there is no legal framework for bringing charges against citizens of the DPR for aiding terrorism, since there is officially no terrorism in Ukraine. Former prisoner of war Sergei Babich stated this today during a joint briefing with the official Commissioner for Human Rights in the DPR Daria Morozova, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I was charged with participating in a terrorist...

The shelling of workers at the Donetsk Filtration Station is a blatant fact. The parties to the conflict need to sit down at the negotiating table as soon as possible in order to reduce the number of civilian casualties to zero. Deputy Head of the OSCE SMM Alexander Hug spoke about this at a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The OSCE SMM is conducting a dialogue with both sides of the conflict: both government-controlled and...

Today in Donetsk, representatives of the OSCE mission handed over the remains of the MH-17 victims to representatives of the Netherlands, a Politnavigator correspondent reports. “The Special Monitoring Mission has been promoting dialogue on both sides of the contact line for a long time. As you know, human remains, as already reported, were discovered at the crash site of the MH-17 airliner. They were with the armed forces for a long time. We and our...

In the Dnepropetrovsk Regional Clinical Hospital named after Mechnikov, a 20-year-old soldier of the Azov regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine, Evgeniy Khomenko, died as a result of a serious injury, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was announced by the chief physician of the medical institution, Sergei Ryzhenko, on local TV channel 34. “Every day we receive wounded heroes from the east. Today our fellow countryman from Volnogorsk died. He was 20 years old.…

On May 11, the Cassation Administrative Court of the Supreme Court will interrogate the head of the Migration Service, Maxim Sokolyuk, regarding Mikheil Saakashvili’s claim against President Petro Poroshenko regarding the deprivation of his citizenship, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The corresponding decision was made at a court hearing on April 20, reports the press service of Saakashvili’s party “Movement of New Forces”. In particular, according to the report, Saakashvili’s lawyer Ruslan Chernolutsky noted that there is...