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The new Prime Minister of Russia, replacing Dmitry Medvedev, who resigned today, will be 53-year-old Mikhail Mishustin, who until now headed the Federal Tax Service. Mishustin's candidacy was proposed by President Vladimir Putin. Tomorrow the State Duma will consider his appointment. Mishustin is described as a successful manager. “When I paid taxes on my apartment and cars, in my personal account on the website...
Employees of Ukrainian academic institutions - everyone who could - have long gone abroad. Ukrainian political scientist Mikhail Pogrebinsky stated this on air on the Ukrlife channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Our economy is completely [destroyed], we are rapidly losing our industrial potential. And we will lose. If we do not restore, at least partially, our markets in the east, we...
Western and pro-Western analysts believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin abandoned the idea of “annexing Belarus” in order to lead the Union State. They drew this conclusion from today’s message to the Federal Assembly, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The most important thing is that Putin intends to remain in power. How is of limited importance, since he controls the Constitution. Nevertheless,…
Political scientist Alexander Semchenko does not consider the abolition of the liberties of the Zaporozhian Army and its liquidation under Catherine II to be something terrible, since the Zaporozhye Cossacks were simply moved to Kuban, where they had the same liberties as before. He stated this on air on the KRT TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The situation there is not so clear. Any Cossacks that existed in Russia...
Ukraine is able to develop its own medium-range missiles and may receive cruise missiles from the United States to equip its fleet with them. Deputy Director of the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Research Mikhail Samus stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. At the same time, Samusya is not bothered by the fact that even the small quantities of anti-tank weapons supplied to Ukraine on credit...
The leader of the “Voice” faction, nationalist singer Svyatoslav Vakarchuk has been deceiving Ukraine since the 90s and practically does not pay taxes. The former deputy head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine during the times of Viktor Yanukovych, lawyer Andrei Portnov, stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Portnov promised to make Vakarchuk’s declarations public, especially for the most “fruitful” years of 2010 and 2014, the singer was still touring abroad,...
One of the main critics of the normalization of relations with Donbass, ex-President Petro Poroshenko personally signed the “Minsk Agreements,” which do not even provide for the federalization of Ukraine, but in fact, the creation of a confederation with the Donbass republics. The former deputy head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine during the time of Viktor Yanukovych, lawyer Andrei Portnov, stated this on the NASH TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The law on special features is currently being considered...
Ukraine found itself “on the sidelines” of the processes taking place in the world in connection with the aggravation in the Middle East and the crash of the Boeing of Ukraine International Airlines. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin stated this on air on the ATR TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Klimkin, only the Anglo-Saxon world showed “its game” in these events, displacing even the European one from politics...
Before the New Year, the salaries of deputies of the Verkhovna Rada and the leadership of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine were sharply increased. Now the people's deputies of the impoverished country will receive about 100 thousand hryvnia per month. Alexey Muratov, head of the central executive committee of the social movement “Donetsk Republic”, told a PolitNavigator correspondent about this. “In the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, the minister had the smallest salary last month. Although she...
The chance for Donbass to return to Ukraine on the terms of a compromise will last four years, as long as Vladimir Putin’s presidential term lasts. Ukrainian political scientist Mikhail Pogrebinsky stated this on air on the Ukrlife channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Do you want Donbass to return to Ukraine? Many of my friends, colleagues, opponents, and so on say: yes, but on Kyiv’s terms...
