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Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak denied today's statement by Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Rumas that Belarus will purchase 2 million tons of Russian oil at a price of $4 per ton. He said this on the air of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It is incorrect for me to correct the words of the Prime Minister. I would just comment on what prices would be supplied.…
During a telephone conversation, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed that Moscow will provide assistance to Belgrade in the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic. The President of Serbia announced this on his Twitter, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Very good conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Confirmed friendship and significant assistance arrives in Serbia.…
The coronavirus epidemic became the subject of a drawing for visitors to the Moscow Ostankino television center on April 1. An announcement appeared in the TV studio elevator that, to combat the epidemic, the cabin is now powered by voice to avoid pressing buttons. “Fucking coronavirus! Now for half an hour they were shouting “floor” in the elevator in bad voices, increasing the effect of the impact on the soulless imported cabin with native profanity, until...
In Kyiv, under the pretext of quarantine due to coronavirus, education in schools was transferred to a distance learning format, while even in the few remaining Russian educational institutions, lessons began to be conducted in Ukrainian. Thus, the liquidation of Russian-language education is being carried out in Kyiv, even ahead of the deadlines provided for by the new discriminatory law on education. This is reported on social networks by parents of schoolchildren who...
The closure of checkpoints in Donbass indicates that Kyiv has de facto recognized the LPR and DPR as foreign states. Ukrainian political scientist Vadim Karasev said this on air on the 112 TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “As for Donbass, this issue cannot be abandoned. What actually happened in connection with the quarantine, de facto - the authorities established the border of Ukraine, where does this border lie? De facto…
Half the cost of humanitarian cargo from the Russian Federation that arrived at New York airport at night was paid by the Russian Direct Investment Fund, and half by the American side. Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova stated this during a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “For our part, we respond to the requests that our country receives at this difficult moment. How are you…
The IMF did not call the adoption of the law on the sale of Ukrainian land a prerequisite for providing the next tranche to Ukraine. A Maidan activist who fled from Donbass and now “Ukrainian military expert” Dmitry Snegirev stated this on the air of the Ya-UA TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Let's refute the myth that the IMF imposed on us the provision of the next tranche, tied its provision precisely to the acceptance...
Representatives of medium and small Serbian businesses in Kosovo help Kosovo Serbs like them, living in remote villages and in an aggressive Albanian environment, to survive. Serbian media reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Elderly and low-income residents of nine Serbian communities in Kosovo will receive assistance worth two million Serbian dinars (about 1,5 million rubles) from...
Russia's position in the current situation is more advantageous than that of Saudi Arabia. Marc-Antoine Eyle-Mazegga, director of the French Energy Center IFRI, stated this at the Valdai International Discussion Club, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In this situation, of course, no one wins. In the current situation, the conversation is about who will lose more, not who will lose less. And so far Russia is losing less than...
SBU officers detained two residents of Kharkov, who are accused of allegedly buying up aircraft parts stolen from Ukrainian military units, and then reselling them to Ukroboronprom under the guise of new ones. This was reported by the press service of the SBU, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Two Kharkov residents organized a scheme to buy components and assemblies of military aircraft, which, on their order, were stolen from military units...
