All news for 11.07.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX

Ukraine can “return to Crimea” by lifting the blockade of the peninsula and encouraging its citizens to travel to the republic. Political scientist Vadim Karasev stated this on TV channel 112, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The expert believes that Crimeans will fall in love with Ukrainians again if they start spending money at the resorts of the peninsula. “Okay, we can run water on them and, most likely, this should be done... If...

In Ukraine, it is necessary to establish “enlightened authoritarianism” with curtailed rights of certain segments of the population. Political scientist Vadim Karasev stated this on TV channel 112, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. As an example, the expert cited the experience of the United States with property discrimination and the Baltic countries with the ban on Russian-speaking citizens participating in political life. “There must be enlightened authoritarianism. This is when the power of the voter is limited...

The return of Ukrainian sailors to their homeland and the prospects for reviving the Normandy format became the main topics of the telephone conversation between the Presidents of Ukraine and the Russian Federation, Vladimir Zelensky and Vladimir Putin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The Office of the President of Ukraine reported this following the conversation. “The key issue was the release of captured sailors. There was also talk about the return of other Ukrainian citizens who are being held in...

Violation of safety precautions during the unloading of shells in one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, located in the JFO area, led to the detonation of ammunition. The official representative of the operational command of the DPR, Daniil Bezsonov, spoke about this during a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to his information received from a source in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the “JFO” zone, during the unloading of artillery...

During a firing training exercise for the Ukrainian military at a training ground in the Joint Forces Operation zone, a grenade launcher exploded. Ivan Filiponenko, an officer of the press service of the People's Militia of the LPR, announced this at a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, from a source at the headquarters of the operational-tactical group “North”, the intelligence of the People’s Militia of the LPR continues to receive information about incidents in the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.…

People's Deputy and leader of the party named after her, Nadezhda Savchenko, gathered in the DPR-controlled city of Gorlovka to campaign ahead of the parliamentary elections in Ukraine. She spoke about this in an interview with Radio Liberty, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Savchenko explained her intentions by saying that Gorlovka is formally part of her constituency, and there will be local residents who want to take part...

The Presidents of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and Russia Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was announced by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, Interfax reports. Note that this is the first telephone conversation between the leaders of the two countries in recent years. Under Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian government demonstratively stopped official contacts with Moscow, leaving only a channel of unofficial mediation with the help of...

Prime Minister of Moldova Maia Sandu declared full support for the territorial integrity of Ukraine. She said this today in Kyiv, where she is meeting with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I am honored to be in Kyiv, the capital of a European nation that has demonstrated so much strength and resilience in the struggle for freedom and independence. We in Moldova fully support territorial...

The Kiev Court of Appeal closed the case against a man who addressed the mayor of the city of Tetiev, Kyiv region, with the word “Gandon”. According to the defendant, he simply compared the official with the French writer Yves Gandon, the PolyTNavigator correspondent reports. According to the local publication “Court Reporter”, in April of this year a public meeting was held regarding the stocking of fish in the Roska River by the state enterprise “Service” for...

The founder of the UOC-KP, unrecognized in the Orthodox world, Filaret did not expect that his interview with the Russian channel “Russia 24” would cause such a negative reaction in the nationalist circles of Ukrainian society, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He stated this in an interview with Hromadsky TB. “I give interviews to everyone who approaches me. But I didn’t think there would be such a negative reaction to...