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At the end of September, a delegation of Georgian public will travel to Moscow. The delegation will be received by the Russian State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots. For the first time, a meeting will take place in such an unusual format between representatives of two countries that do not even have diplomatic relations. The coordinator of the public union “New Socialist...”, who was part of the delegation, answers PolitNavigator’s questions.

Victory Day over Nazi Germany, celebrated in the Russian Federation on May 9, is an important date for the United States. The new US Ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, spoke about this in an interview with Kommersant, answering a question about the composition of the American delegation, which plans to take part in ceremonial events in Moscow on May 9 to mark the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. "As of today...

The new Ukrainian delegation at the autumn session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly demonstrated a very constructive attitude until the start of the last day of meetings. The first deputy chairman of the Federation Council Commission on International Affairs, who headed the Russian delegation to the OSCE PA, Vladimir Dzhabarov, spoke about this during a press conference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We met for the first time with the new Ukrainian delegation. This lineup mainly...

Czech President Milos Zeman received a delegation of seven people at Prague Castle, who, according to them, represent the interests of the Rusyns seeking autonomy within Ukraine, a tPolitNavigator correspondent reports. This meeting, which took place in early September, drew attention to the publication Deník N. The reception was symbolically timed to coincide with the centenary of the signing of the Treaty of Saint-Germain: on September 10, 1919, this international agreement…

The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, has appointed a new head of the EU delegation to Ukraine as part of the rotation in 2019, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This is reported on the website of the EU External Action Service. As reported, the new head of the EU delegation to Ukraine is the representative of Estonia, Marti Maasikas. “Marty Maasikas was appointed head of the delegation...

The Ukrainian delegation to PACE, which will end its mandate after the elections to the Verkhovna Rada this summer, can “beat the pot” for the last time by leaving the Assembly. This will lead to a crisis in relations between Ukraine and the main European states and will be another headache for the new Ukrainian government. Ukrainian diplomat Roman Bessmertny stated this on the Espresso TV channel, the correspondent reports...

The Federation Council and the State Duma of the Russian Federation formed a delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). It included seven senators and 11 deputies, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Interfax reports this. Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev recalled that due to restrictions, Russian parliamentarians did not participate in the work for four years “If the Assembly votes for Madam’s report...

The administration of US President Donald Trump announced the composition of the official delegation for the inauguration of the newly elected President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky on May 20, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported on the Twitter page of Voice of America White House correspondent Steve Herman. The delegation will be led by US Energy Secretary Rick Perry. The delegation also included: US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker,…

​ A KP correspondent, who was among a group of Russian journalists invited to China on the eve of Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow, writes that in private conversations Chinese officials congratulate the Russians on the annexation of Crimea. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Crimea” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte ​“Congratulations on Crimea, but don’t write about it anywhere,” they tell Russian journalists. But all of them...