All news for 26.01.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX

In Armenia, where all power has recently belonged to the team of the leader of the Yerevan Maidan, Nikol Pashinyan, there is growing dissatisfaction among the population with the inexperience of the revolutionaries, endless scandals, selective justice and the difficult economic situation of the country. Journalist Armen Martirosyan, who returned from Yerevan, spoke about this in an interview with PolitNavigator. Our interlocutor compares the events in Armenia and Ukraine - before the events of 2014...

The Ukrainian state interferes in the affairs of not only Orthodox Christians, but also Muslims. This was stated at a press conference in Moscow by Mufti Albir Krganov, a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Spiritual Assembly of Muslims of Russia. “The laws adopted in Ukraine undermine not only the internal life of Christians, they also affect other faiths, including the Muslim community. Muslims in Ukraine are prohibited from taking part...

The Ukrainian authorities organized a “socialist competition” between regions in the number of churches taken away from the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP). Press Secretary of the UOC MP Vasily Anisimov stated this via video link at a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The president is organizing some kind of competition among the heads of local administrations. In this area, 10 parishes transferred to the church created by the president. Why…

Ukraine's negative foreign trade balance almost reached $9 billion in 11 months of last year. The Ukrainian publication “Mirror of the Week” writes about this today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Over the 11 months of last year, exports increased by 9,9%, imports over the same period increased by 16,7%. Having sold $43,2 billion worth of goods, we bought from other countries...

ATO “veteran” Alexei Getman, speaking on the Ukrainian TV channel ZIK, said he drew a parallel between his brothers-in-arms and Hitler’s soldiers, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There is no need to force veterans into one particular party. There are three branches of government. Sometime after the war, Konrad Adenauer created the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where 70% of the people who had previously served in a certain unit of the Wehrmacht worked. This…

The military, who were presented as “cyborgs” at the presidential nomination ceremony held recently in Kyiv, received 10 thousand dollars for participating in this show. The former commander of the assault group of the Donbass battalion, Taras Kostanchuk, stated this on the air of the Ukrainian TV channel ZIK, a Politnavigator correspondent reports. “When I asked the boys what it was, they...

Ukrainian “combat” awards can be purchased for 100-300 hryvnia. Former militant of the Aidar terrorist battalion Igor Lapin stated this on the air of the Ukrainian TV channel ZIK, a PolitNavigatra correspondent reports. “In our country, unfortunately, the concept of reward is often greatly devalued. It’s good that volunteers came up with some awards, because the state doesn’t always recognize everyone. But later they became themselves...

The Turkish Stream gas pipeline is even more dangerous for Kyiv than Nord Stream 2, since it will completely deprive Ukraine of the transit of Russian gas. The Kiev magazine “New Time” writes about this, citing Karel Girman, an energy expert at the Strategic Group of Advisors to Support Reforms under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. “Girman argues that this gas pipeline [Turkish Stream] may be even more dangerous for Ukraine than Nord Stream-2, which...

In the PACE resolution, the incident in the Kerch Strait was not recognized as a military conflict, and the Ukrainian sailors were not recognized as prisoners of war, as Ukraine sought. Political scientist, candidate of political sciences Alexey Yakubin said this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The PACE resolution for Ukraine is ambiguous. Ukraine was unable to register Bankova’s line – that the sailors are prisoners of war. This…

The founder of the so-called schismatic “Kyiv Patriarchate”, on the basis of which the OCU was created under the patronage of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, Mikhail Denisenko still considers himself a patriarch. Political scientist, candidate of political sciences Alexey Yakubin said this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Filaret is the newsmaker of the week. An entry appeared on his 90th birthday, where he spoke very critically about the OCU, to...