All news for 28.01.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX

Not all human rights activists in Russia are ready to defend activists from the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, which is recognized as terrorist in the Russian Federation. This was admitted today during public hearings at the Sakharov Center by Lev Ponomarev, a representative of the All-Russian public movement “For Human Rights”. “There has been a split in the human rights community in recent years regarding topics related to Islam. They said it was some kind of Hizb ut-Tahrir...

The current coup attempt in Venezuela is being closely watched in Tbilisi, Yerevan and Baku. Sergei Markedonov, associate professor of the department of foreign regional studies and foreign policy at the Russian State Humanitarian University, stated this in a commentary for the Bunin&Co telegram channel. He recalled that Georgia immediately supported the US recognition of the Speaker of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Juan Guiado, as interim president. “In Tbilisi there was active talk about...

The Sevastopol government is trying to prevent the publication of the results of an inspection of the Sevastopol seaport, announced by the head of the government control department, Sergei Elizarov. Last week, Elizarov publicly announced that Sevmorport was being artificially driven to bankruptcy, and the city government wanted to hide it. He promised to publish the final results of the audit conducted by the control department in early February. Vice-Governor of Sevastopol Ilya Ponomarev named all the facts...

More than half of Ukrainian citizens are in favor of ending the war in Donbass, even if they give up the part of Donbass not controlled by Kyiv. Interfax-Ukraine reports that Alexey Borovsky, director of the sociological company Seetarget, spoke about this at a press conference in Kyiv, citing a relevant study. “More than half of the population of Ukraine, almost 60%, want peace at any cost, even by abandoning the occupied territories,”...

The refusal of the Ukrainian musician and singer Svyatoslav Vakarchuk to run for president of Ukraine, despite a relatively decent rating, is explained by his unsuccessful experience in politics. This opinion was expressed in a comment to PolitNavigator by the director of the Agency for Social Communications, Sergei Belashko, according to whom Vakarchuk did not seriously think about running for president. “Yes, they pushed him, tried to play a game with him, let him out...

Evgeny Muraev. Recently, this name has confidently remained at the top of the hit parade of “new faces” in Ukrainian politics. “Orphaned” after the collapse of the Party of Regions, the Ukrainian “vatniks” - at least a considerable part of them - suddenly saw a new “messiah” in a relatively young Kharkov businessman. Who will lead them out of “Maidan slavery”, like Moses of the Jews from Egyptian captivity and beyond...

Vladimir Gorbenko, captain of the Kerch fishing vessel “Nord”, seized by Ukrainian border guards in the spring of 2018 in the Sea of ​​Azov, disappeared in Melitopol. The captain’s lawyer, Maxim Mogilnitsky, wrote about this on Facebook. “According to relatives, last Saturday around noon, Vladimir disappeared from home, and no one has seen him since then. To keep in touch with family and...

Lviv lawyer Andrei Rogulya claims that he was sent to earth in the last century as the Lamb of God, who foresaw “Russian aggression.” The lawyer’s page in the Poetry Club was discovered by Kiev journalist Andrey Manchuk, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “You, as God closed your eyes and took you to himself, there is a army in heaven. The Father sent His Angst to earth in the past century...

Germany offered Ukraine a trilateral agreement capable of ensuring the stability and reliability of the Ukrainian gas transportation system, but Kyiv refused. Russian political scientist Nikolai Platoshkin stated this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Before 2004, before the first Maidan, before the second, before Crimea, German Chancellor Schröder made Ukraine a proposal for a triple consortium to manage the gas transportation system, in which you...

Radical Ukrainian nationalists are threatening residents of the Kyiv-controlled part of the Luhansk region with reprisals for using the Russian language. The official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko, announced this at a briefing today, according to a PolitNavigator correspondent. In particular, he noted that the Kiev authorities are carrying out forcible Ukrainization of the Russian-speaking population in the controlled territory of Donbass. “According to local residents, in the Melovsky district...