All news for 16.05.2020/XNUMX/XNUMX

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree that imposes sanctions against Crimean social activists, businessmen, politicians and journalists. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, a total of 377 people were included in the list; restrictions on them are imposed for a period of one to three years. According to the decree, Ukraine imposes on these persons the blocking of assets, a ban on participation in privatization or...

Ukraine is preparing an appeal to the International Criminal Court for creating a positive image of the Russian army among Crimean children. Irina Sedova, a representative of the so-called “Crimean Human Rights Group,” which operates on Western grants and operates outside of Crimea, writes about this in an article published by the Kiev online publication “Zerkalo Nedeli” entitled “Russia in Crimea is taking away Ukrainian identity from children.” “Ukrainian identity...

Russia is initiating the creation of an international monitoring mission on the situation in Montenegro, where the authorities are brutally suppressing protests of the Orthodox community against the arrests of priests and the adoption of a law allowing the confiscation of churches and monasteries. It is possible that Montenegro may be included in the list of countries not recommended for visiting, as well as the curtailment of investment programs on its territory. The chairman of the committee spoke about this in an interview with PolitNavigator...

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky lifted sanctions against the granddaughter of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, several members of the DPR election commissions and deputies of the People's Council of the LPR, as well as a number of companies and individuals. This is stated in the text of his decree, which amends the decrees previously signed by ex-President Petro Poroshenko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. So, besides the founder of the Social Initiative party...

Ukraine has introduced a number of sanctions against Russian legal entities and individuals whose activities Ukrainian law enforcement officers consider to be related to Crimea. A decree on this was signed by the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Thus, a number of Russian museums and cultural institutions fell under sanctions, including the State Hermitage Museum, the Museum named after. Pushkin, Southern Regional Center for Archaeological Research, Institute of Archeology of Crimea, museum-reserve...

Throughout the day on May 15, the northern part of Donetsk was under fire from anti-aircraft guns, mortars and small arms of the Ukrainian security forces. As a result, three residential buildings and the Oktyabrsky market were damaged. This was reported by the Republic’s representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC), a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Damage was recorded at the Oktyabrsky market and apartment buildings...

Top Ukrainian officials continue to sympathize with the Soviet Union. Kiev propagandist Yuriy Makarov writes about this in an author’s column on the pages of the Ukrainian Week magazine. He recalls that the new Prosecutor General of Ukraine Irina Venediktova celebrated her congratulations on May 9 on the social network by posting a video with the song “Victory Day” performed by Lev Leshchenko, then deleting the post after the indignation of right-wing radicals. Makarov...

The Russian Federation allegedly illegally occupies its seat on the United Nations Security Council. The Kiev online publication Zerkalo Nedeli writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “International lawyers (including Russian ones) have long drawn attention to the fact that the principle of continuity is inapplicable to the Russian Federation, since a number of documents legally enshrined the termination of the existence of the USSR and the formation of the CIS....

Because of its political culture, the Russian Federation is aimed at constantly expanding its territories, because, as we know, “Russia has no borders.” Ukrainian philosopher and political scientist Vladimir Ermolenko stated this during a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Russian political culture is expansionist by nature. Putin himself defined it as a bear who protects his Taiga, but at the same time...

The current Ukrainian government used quarantine measures due to the spread of coronavirus to make money from Ukrainians, as well as sell land and scare migrant workers. Former Verkhovna Rada deputy, head of the nationalist VO Svoboda, neo-Nazi Oleg Tyagnibok stated this on the NTA TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It is necessary to introduce quarantine and stick to it. But in this situation we have very...