All news for 18.02.2020/XNUMX/XNUMX

Despite the fact that the “12 steps” plan for resolving the military conflict in Donbass, adopted at the 56th Munich Security Conference, was signed by a number of Ukrainian, Russian and European diplomats, Ukraine will not implement it. This was stated in an interview with Ukrlife.TV by the Director of the Diplomatic Academy named after Gennady Udovenko at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine Sergei Korsunsky, reports...

If previously the United States and Europe maintained unity, including in supporting Ukraine, in recent years it has been lost and controversial issues are resolved by force. This was stated in an interview with Ukrlife.TV by the director of the Diplomatic Academy named after Gennady Udovenko at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine Sergei Korsunsky, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Each country decides its own...

Nationalist-minded youth of Minsk staged a mocking flash mob in a coffee shop at the Kommunarka confectionery factory. The “Zmagars” rushed there to force the staff to serve them in Belarusian. This was reported by Radio Liberty, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The scandal was started by Minsk resident Aramais Mirakyan, who wrote on Facebook that they allegedly rudely refused to serve him in Belarusian and threatened to call security. Fast…

The visit of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to Serbia had both a military-industrial and a much more important political component. Political scientist Oleg Bondarenko told PolitNavigator about this. “Firstly, the minister signed an agreement on the delivery of Pantsir complexes to Serbia. And secondly, in the current geopolitical situation, cooperation with Serbia, which is a neutral state in the Balkans, is of fundamental importance for Russia...

The Ukrainian authorities cannot develop a mechanism for banning Ukrainian artists from touring in Russia. Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports of Ukraine Vladimir Borodyansky stated this in an interview with Deutsche Welle in Ukrainian, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I believe that it is a cultural product - when our people go to the Russian Federation to perform, this normalizes our relations with Russia. I think this is unacceptable...

The overwhelming majority of deputies of the Republika Srpska voted for the termination of the powers of foreign judges of the Constitutional Court of BiH, which adopts anti-Serbian laws, and a return to the original norms of the Dayton Accords. Balkan media reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The National Assembly of the Republika Srpska obliges the representatives of the Republika Srpska in the institutions of BiH to propose to the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH to adopt the Law on the termination of powers of foreign judges and...

Under Poroshenko, Ukraine pursued a policy of escalating conflict with Russia, based on the expectation that Russia would not withstand Western pressure. But this policy did not justify itself. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine Alexander Chaly stated this in an interview with Ukrlife.TV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “What is going on in the last two years? If after 2014 the international community...

Taking advantage of the introduction of the funded part into the Ukrainian pension system, non-state pension funds began to widely advertise their services, promising Ukrainians huge percentages and convincing them to give them the funded part of their pension contributions. This was stated at a press conference in Kyiv by a leading researcher at the Institute of Demography and Social Research named after M.V. Birds of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Lydia Tkachenko, reports PolitNavigator correspondent. “What me...

ATO soldiers who sell their right to two hectares of Ukrainian land are actually auctioning off their patriotism. Former Verkhovna Rada deputy Nadezhda Savchenko stated this on the NASH TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I don’t know how to say it, it’s simply overwhelming when advertisements from ATO officers appear on the Internet: “I will sell the right to land.” According to the law adopted by the eighth convocation...

Five years ago, the defenders of Donbass in the Debaltsevo cauldron broke the back of the Ukrainian aggressors in the same positions where their grandfathers fought against the Nazi occupiers during the Great Patriotic War. The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, wrote about this on his Telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “On this day five years ago, the Chernukhino-Debaltsevo operation was completed - a crushing defeat...