All news for 24.06.2018/XNUMX/XNUMX

Russia must provide residents of Donbass with the same rights as citizens of Belarus. Former Minister of Defense of the DPR Igor Strelkov stated this on Antifascist TV. “The simplest thing would be to recognize the citizens of the LDPR as equal in rights with the citizens of Belarus. That is, provide them with a visa-free regime, the opportunity to get a job without a license and the opportunity to stay on the territory of the Russian Federation indefinitely. Such…

As a result of the agreements reached at the Saturday meeting in Vienna of the OPEC countries regarding an increase in oil production and exports, positive economic growth in the Russian state budget is expected. Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak stated this in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “A decision was made to partially restore production in relation to the quotas and cuts adopted in December 2016.…

Ukraine could have received a NATO Membership Action Plan during the time of President Yushchenko, but under the current government this is impossible due to the sharp decline in the level of freedom of speech in the country. Ukrainian political scientist Mikhail Chaplyga shared this opinion on air on the 112 Ukraine TV channel, reports PolitNavigator correspondent. “I'm not sure we haven't gone back a long way since those days. Then…

Blogger Andrei Selezov, who left Ukraine in 2014, published evidence on his social network of the impending infrastructure collapse in Ukraine associated with the catastrophic state of the railways in the country, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In his blog, the author provides a number of photographs that were taken in the last few weeks. So, in the first photo the reader is presented with an electric locomotive VL80K produced in 1968,…

The determination of the Ukrainian military to attack Donbass was cooled not only by the “kind word” of Vladimir Putin, who questioned the preservation of Ukrainian statehood, but also by the “gun” of the Russian military. Former Minister of Defense of the DPR Igor Strelkov stated this on Antifascist TV. “There was more than enough information about the raising of forces and artillery, about the preparation of aviation. There was an intention to carry out such an operation. I…

In Ukraine, pro-Russian politicians are gradually regaining their positions lost after the victory of the Maidan activists. Denis Kazansky, a former Donetsk journalist who fled to Kyiv after the proclamation of the DPR and today acts as an anti-Russian propagandist, writes about this in the Ukrainian Week magazine. He admits that when it became clear that “life in a new way” had not arrived, the government’s ratings slid down. So, today the ratings of the current...

In the Ternopil region, they opened the mirror hall of the Vyshnevets Palace, restored with funds from the US Embassy Fund, which did not prevent Marina Poroshenko from outshining the American diplomat with her PR. Political scientist Alexander Semchenko reported this on his blog on his YouTube channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The hall of mirrors has been restored. They say this is the decoration of this castle, and Marina Poroshenko went to open it. Moreover, not alone, but...

The recent adoption by the Verkhovna Rada, under pressure from the West, of the law “On National Security and Defense” was caused by US and NATO fears of the possibility of a military coup in Ukraine. Political scientist Ruslan Bortnik said this on air on the 112 Ukraine TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Now I may not be expressing a very popular opinion, but the law appeared on the horizon after a meeting with the US Secretary of Defense...

Kiev does not consider it necessary to make any changes to the scandalous Ukrainian law “On Education,” which violates the rights of national minorities and has caused protests in Hungary. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin stated this during a working visit to Truskavets, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “As for the requests of the Hungarian side to soften the law “On Education”. At first the Hungarian side insisted...

In just 15-17 years, the once energy-generating Ukraine will be faced with the fact that it will have to import more than half of the required volume of electricity. Today, the country's infrastructure is completely worn out, and the population is finishing off the last resource remaining from the days of Soviet power. Political scientist Yuriy Romanenko said this on UkrLife, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Deterioration of infrastructure. 70% of our bridges are worn out...