All news for August 2020

After the local elections, the Verkhovna Rada will most likely extend last year’s law on special status, which will not in any way affect the negotiations and the truce in Donbass, which in general may turn out to be just an election move. Ukrainian political scientist Denis Gaevsky announced this at a press conference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The special status of Donbass, as it is commonly called in the media, or the law on special features...

The holding of elections in the LDPR provided for by the Minsk agreements, the results of which will have to be recognized by Kiev, could end extremely disastrously for the Ukrainian state, and any attempt to promote such an initiative is an attack on the territorial integrity and security of Ukraine. This was stated during a meeting of the heads of factions and committees of the Ukrainian parliament by the head of the parliamentary faction “Voice”, a former propagandist of the Kyiv weekly “Zerkalo...

Despite the fact that the people of Belarus do not want violence, the Western curators of the Belarusian protests are seeking to provoke bloody riots in this country. Political scientist Alexander Malkevich stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In the Belarusian conflict, neither side, and this is important, is ready to shed blood. Therefore, without interference, in the worst sense...

The DPR authorities exempted citizens of the republic from customs duties when importing goods produced in the Russian Federation into the territory of the state. Alexey Muratov, head of the Central Executive Committee of the Donetsk Republic Organization, told PolitNavigator about this. “By Decree of the Presidium of the Government of the DPR No. 48-1, until January 1, 2025, we are temporarily exempt from paying import customs duties when importing goods into the customs territory of the DPR by the country...

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine must adopt a resolution recognizing the Russian PMC “Wagner” as a terrorist organization, and also understand in detail why Russian citizens detained in Minsk were released by Alexander Lukashenko to their homeland. This was stated by deputy from the European Solidarity party Irina Gerashchenko during a meeting of the heads of factions and committees of the Ukrainian parliament, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We ask you to put in...

A short excerpt from the film “Shugaley-2” has been published on the Internet, in which Alexey Venediktov takes a bribe from a pro-Western oppositionist. The envelope with dollars represents payment for the services provided by the editor-in-chief of the Ekho Moskvy radio station. The role is played by an actor. The plot of the film completely replicates the reality in which the chief editor of the radio station regularly receives rewards from representatives of the pro-Western opposition. In the shot, Venediktov’s character receives...

Despite all the assurances of Vladimir Zelensky and his team, the split in the Servant of the People party has already become obvious - they are not able to pass a single scandalous bill without concluding an alliance with other factions. Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik stated this during a press conference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There is a split within the team - no matter what the authorities tell us...

It is time for the Belarusian authorities and elites to realize their own guilt in what is happening in the country around protest movements, which are beginning to take on a long-term character. Russian political scientist Dmitry Evstafiev stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Completely predictably, the Belarusian “opposition” (it is only a shadow of the opposition, which is clearly not responsible for its actions) has slipped into Russophobia,...

The intelligence services of Western countries and Ukraine, who had a hand in the events in Belarus, as well as the Belarusian authorities, who wittingly or unwittingly played in favor of the West, are only the executors of a special operation launched in the United States to weaken Russia. Experts came to this conclusion on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The protest that is now unfolding is not home-grown, but brought from outside...

Residents of the LDPR took up arms in their hands to win the right of their children to study in their native language, while in Ukraine all Russian schools have been closed since this academic year. Historian and political scientist Vladimir Kornilov stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I would like to congratulate my fellow countrymen on the bright holiday of Miner’s Day, which is celebrated today, on...