News archive on the topic "Colombia"

Foreign mercenaries fighting on the side of the Kyiv regime complain about the difficult situation at the front. The American news agency Associated Press reports this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Thus, the publication’s journalists spoke with a detachment of Colombian mercenaries. It is noted that all of them were injured during an attack by Russian drones. “I thought I was going to die. We got up and decided to run from the position to...

For the first time in the history of Colombia, a candidate from the left wins the presidential election - 62-year-old socialist senator, former guerrilla and ex-mayor of Bogotá Gustavo Petro. 49,73% of voters voted for him, as follows from the data on the website of the National Register of Civil Status Acts, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. His rival, the scandalous right-wing populist with an anti-corruption agenda, Rodolfo Hernandez, whom the local press calls the “Colombian Trump,” gained...

The first round of the presidential elections in Colombia ended with a sensation. According to its results, the center-left Gustavo Pietro, who received first place overall with 40,32% (8) of the votes, and the right-wing ultra-conservative Rodolfo Hernandez with 527% (768 28,15) votes. Of the country's 5 million population,...

Today in Ukraine, power is in the hands of people who are completely indifferent to the country. A Ukrainian publicist, translator and political analyst living in Chile, Oleg Yasinsky, stated this in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This year I came to Kyiv for the first time after the events of 2014. It's very painful, it's very hard to see what I see. Power…

In the last couple of weeks, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic has crossed the Atlantic and began to rage across North America. In the United States, which considers itself a “promised land” for all people of the world, the virus is decimating homeless and prosperous citizens. So much so that America let out a strangled cry for help and began receiving medical aid from Russia and China. And even without any hesitation she “squeezed out”...

A ship with 73 thousand tons of coal of the Gishch Columbia grade arrived at the Yuzhny port in the Odessa region, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the press service of the DTEK company, owned by businessman Rinat Akhmetov. The company says that the new batch of coal will allow DTEK to continue accumulating coal in the warehouses of thermal power plants, so that in winter thermal power plants will stably provide Ukraine with light and heat. Currently...

Ukraine needs to borrow Colombia’s experience in “rehabilitating” rebels who surrendered to the authorities. First Deputy Speaker Irina Gerashchenko stated this during a plenary meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In her opinion, such a system of “transitional justice” may be needed when Kyiv returns the “occupied” Donbass. “We, within the framework of the Minsk platform, and then some of our colleagues from factions, got acquainted with really...

Ukrainian parliamentarians will go to Colombia to study the experience of reintegration and inclusive post-conflict dialogue, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Vice Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Irina Gerashchenko reported this on Facebook. “I will spend this week, together with several colleagues from parliament, in Colombia, where we will study the experience of reintegration and inclusive post-conflict dialogue. The trip is financed by the organizers, from the Verkhovna Rada budget for this...