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Many Western countries that support Ukraine in the war against Russia still do not have Ukrainian ambassadors. The head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the last convocation of the Verkhovna Rada, Anna Gopko, stated this on Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The presenter asked how it happened that Ukraine does not have an ambassador to Britain, which helps so much in the war against...
Up to 60 percent of Ukrainian embassy representatives refuse to return home from their host country, but in reality this figure may be much higher. The informed Kiev online publication “Zerkalo Nedeli” writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. It is noted that the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry today “fills vacancies by hiring people who have no experience working in the diplomatic service.” “Financial issue, problems with employment -...
Vladimir Zelensky named those countries whose diplomats have already returned to Kyiv. He stated this in his next video distributed by his Office. “I would like to note that along with the people of Kiev, diplomatic representatives of other states are also returning to the capital. The Turkish embassy returned yesterday. The Lithuanian ambassador returned today. Earlier, the Slovenian Embassy resumed work in Kyiv. I am sincerely grateful to the friends of Ukraine...
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko ordered a significant reduction in the number of diplomats in Europe. He stated this today at a meeting on foreign policy priorities, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We need to take a very serious look at our diplomatic missions in Europe. Why do we need to keep a bunch of diplomats there if we don’t trade with them at all? But political relations, diplomacy, it’s not just absent,...
In Kyiv, another attack was made against employees of the Embassy of the Russian Federation. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Andrey Tsaplienko, a propagandist of the 1+1 TV channel owned by oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, reported this on his blog. “It was a fun night for Russian diplomats today. On the night of March 15-16, diplomats of the Russian Federation who are in Ukraine (and part-time staff members of the Main Directorate of the General Staff...
Foreign diplomats must realize that participation in actions to destabilize the situation in the Russian Federation will not go unanswered. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Vladimir Chizhov, the permanent representative of Russia to the EU, stated this in an interview with Izvestia, answering a question about the expulsion of three Western diplomats from Russia. “First of all, this was a signal to three specific countries whose diplomats took part...
The Moscow City Court is today considering the case of replacing the suspended sentence with a real one (under the article “fraud”) for opposition blogger Alexei Navalny. The opposition failed to organize massive support for Navalny from the “popular masses,” although the blogger’s ally Leonid Volkov the day before rudely interrupted the host of the liberal Dozhd TV channel, who was trying to reprimand him, and openly called on supporters to go to an unauthorized rally to...
The struggle for influence in Serbia unfolded between the US State Department's special representative for the Balkans, Matthew Palmer, and Donald Trump's special representative for the negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo, Richard Grenell. The Serbian newspaper Blitz writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Palmer's biggest problem is Grenell. This is a competition not so much between them personally, but between the State Department and the White House,”...
The Bulgarian Special Prosecutor's Office believes that the first secretary of the Russian Embassy in Sofia could allegedly be involved in espionage in the country, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. BGNews reports this. According to the Bulgarian intelligence services, since September 2018, the Russian allegedly carried out intelligence activities, secretly met with Bulgarian citizens, including a high-ranking official with access to secret...
Russia has declared an employee of the Consulate General of Ukraine in St. Petersburg persona non grata, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was stated today in a statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry. It is noted that the decision was made in response to the expulsion of a Russian diplomat by Ukraine. Earlier, the SBU reported that Ukraine declared an employee of the Russian Consulate General in Lvov persona non grata. “For activities incompatible with the status of a consular official...
There was indeed a discussion of the possibility of Russia selling Karelia to neighboring Finland during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin, although it was never brought into the public sphere due to the “painfulness” of this issue and its “sensitivity.” This was stated to RBC by Andrei Fedorov, who held the post of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia in 1990–1991, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Of course, there was no ‘commission’ around this...
The Ukrainian Embassy in Poland warns citizens about the intensification of the activities of “intermediary firms” that provide paid services for the preparation and execution of a package of documents for consular registration in Poland, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This is stated in a message on the embassy website. “In connection with the recent receipt of numerous signals about the intensification of the activities of the so-called. “intermediary firms” providing paid...
In connection with the ongoing public actions of a political nature in Moldova, Ukrainians were urged to be careful and vigilant, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported at the Ukrainian Embassy in Moldova. “In connection with the ongoing public actions of a political nature in the Republic of Moldova, the planned mass march on Sunday, June 16, we recommend that citizens of Ukraine limit movement along the central streets of the city...
The US administration has banned the placement of rainbow flags in honor of pride month, celebrated by the LGBT community, on the official flagpoles of its embassies around the world, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. NBC News reports this with reference to three diplomats. Two senior State Department officials also told CNN this information. Embassy employees must seek permission from the State Department if they wish to post on...
