All news for 8.02.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX

President Aleksandar Vucic received the Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia Leonid Slutsky. The guest presented the Serbian President with an icon of the Savior and conveyed greetings from Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus', the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Vucic spoke with Slutsky about the further development of Serbian-Russian cooperation in various fields, including parliamentary. He noted that relations between Serbia...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko hastened to call the information circulated yesterday about the sending of 200 Belarusian military personnel to Syria a fake. He stated this today at a meeting of the Security Council of Belarus, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Yesterday there was another fake that the Russian government allegedly decided to almost send our military to Syria. This was news to me. Do you understand that…

The West will try to blackmail Belarus through military means. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko stated this today at a meeting of the Security Council of Belarus, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. “Provocations with the aim of exposing the country to additional sanctions or even blackmail through military means cannot be ruled out. It has already begun: helicopters, drones, shooting of border signs, crossing our border. Previously announced temporary arrival in Europe...

The visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to Kyiv did not bring practical results, but gave him the opportunity to act as a mediator between Russia, the West and Ukraine. Director of the Ukrainian Institute of Policy Analysis and Management Ruslan Bortnik stated this in a comment to a PolitNavigator correspondent. “So far there has been no political breakthrough. It was only possible to agree on a specific date for the meeting of the Normandy advisers...

The visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to Moscow and Kyiv did not bring any results and showed that Macron lives in his illusions. Political scientist Vladimir Volya stated this in a comment to a PolitNavigator correspondent. “More was expected from this visit. But it turned out that in the end there were no specifics. Everything looks as if President Macron is under some kind of illusion. For example,…

President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Andriy Deshchytsia from the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Poland and appointed Vasyl Zvarych instead. The corresponding decrees No. 44/2022 and No. 43/2022 were published on the president’s website on February 8, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “To dismiss Andrey Bogdanovich Deshchytsa from the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Republic of Poland. Appoint Vasily Bogdanovich Zvarych as Extraordinary and...

The contribution of Russian volunteers to the victory over the terrorists of the Islamic State (IS, an organization banned in the Russian Federation) cannot be consigned to oblivion. According to local media reports, today, February 8, a ceremony of laying the first stone of a monument to Russian liberators took place in the city of Deir ez-Zor. It is reported that the event was attended by the governor of the province of Deir ez-Zor Fadel Najjar, administration officials, as well as representatives of the command of the group of troops...

Cybercrime rates in Russia have dropped sharply over the past year. Russian State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein stated this during a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In the previous year, more than 26 percent of all crimes registered in the Russian Federation were crimes committed using information technologies. After the state, represented by the executive branch of government and...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko responded to his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, who yesterday in Moscow publicly criticized the draft of the new Belarusian constitution, submitted to a referendum at the end of February. He voiced his opinion today at a meeting of the Security Council of Belarus, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We conveyed the essence to the people and put the fate of the country in the hands of the Belarusian people. Let him make a decision. But…

The leader of the Bosnian Croats, chairman of the Croatian Democratic Union of BiH (HDZ BiH), Dragan Covic, said that if changes to the election law are not adopted, then there will be no elections in the fall. Covic also said that when voting to change the electoral law, Bosnian Croats need the support of Bosnian Serbs, the PolitNaigator correspondent reports. Real, not nominal...