Archive of news on the topic "embarrassment"

President of Moldova Maia Sandu was embarrassed while recording a video with congratulations to Ukraine in honor of Independence Day with the participation of children on the steps of the presidential palace. Her team made an unforgivable mistake in diplomatic etiquette, as a result of which all the Ukrainian flags in the hands of the children were turned upside down with a yellow stripe. “In the international etiquette of state symbols, an inverted flag means an insult...

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin suggested that the head of the Accounts Chamber, Alexei Kudrin, start checking large projects of the 90s, within the framework of which Russia entered into production sharing agreements and provided unprecedented support measures to Western companies. He stated this during Kudrin’s report in parliament today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Now unfriendly countries have imposed sanctions against Russia and are doing everything...

By handing out a thousand hryvnia to vaccinated people, the Ukrainian government need not worry about inflation - the amount is so tiny that it will not affect anything either on the scale of the entire economy or in individual industries, except perhaps the attitude of Ukrainians towards Zelensky - it will change, but not like this, as he imagines it. Ukrainians will be given another “reincarnation”, probably...

The Ukrainian government has already officially stated that Kyiv has no money for the next Crimean Platform summit. The ex-ambassador of Ukraine to the United States, Valery Chaly, said this on the air of the Direct TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “If you are planning a summit, you need to know that it will not be the only one, that you will hold it constantly, every year, at least an annual summit. And before...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not attend the “Crimean platform”, since the day before it begins she will visit Kyiv on a “goodwill visit”, and such a gesture is disrespect for an important event for Ukraine. Political scientist Valentin Gaidai stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The key point is to have as high a representation as possible...

The propaganda TV channel “Dom”, launched by Vladimir Zelensky’s team, which was presented as an effective tool for broadcasting pro-Ukrainian ideas to the LDPR and Crimea, got into another scandal. This time, the “zrada” touched the map of Russia, where the peninsula was designated as part of the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The propaganda story concerned vaccination in Russia against the COVID-19 coronavirus and the domestic Sputnik V vaccine. "Mistake"...

Western diplomats really didn’t like the fact that the Belarusian extremist Roman Protasevich, detained in Minsk, began to cooperate with the investigation and openly accuses foreign curators of producing the White Maidan. Kiev political scientist Andrei Zolotarev said this on the YouTube channel “KRT”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “Protasevich spoke at the Belarusian Foreign Ministry at a press conference for foreign journalists and diplomats. Half of the diplomats immediately...

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, in honor of the “embroidery day,” decided to publish a corresponding post on his social network, but once again got into trouble and alarmed the “Svidomo” Ukrainians. So, in the publication in the photo with his wife, Zelensky, instead of an embroidered shirt, poses in a Russian blouse, reports the PolitNavigator correspondent. “For those who are not in the know: it’s like coming to Holocaust Day...

By this morning, Bulgaria's Central Election Commission had processed 98,9% of the ballots cast by voters in last Sunday's parliamentary elections in that country. According to available information, the ruling pro-Western party Citizens for the European Choice of Bulgaria (GERB), although it took first place, gained only 26%, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Following the results of the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria, he did not win a convincing victory...

The premiere of the film “Golden Mine” by Polish blogger Stepan Putilo about the “riches” of Alexander Lukashenko caused disappointment – ​​both in Belarus and in Russia. The video, for the sake of making which Putilo did not update his Nekhta telegram channel, which coordinates protests in Belarus, for 10 days, does not contain new information. The film mainly lists Lukashenko's state residences and state transport. "I do not see…

On Ukrainian television, during a live broadcast, a cleaning lady came into the studio to the TV presenters, mopping the floor. This happened on Channel One, during the TV show Ranok, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. The TV presenter reacted to this incident in an extremely unprofessional manner - he turned the back of his head to the camera and told the cleaning lady who came in that there was now a live broadcast. “Welcome to you, we now have...

The protest action announced today in Minsk by the Polish telegram channel “Nekhta” was a complete fiasco. Warsaw puppeteers called on supporters to protest the All-Belarusian People's Assembly, which is being held by the country's President Alexander Lukashenko. However, neither in the morning nor in the afternoon did anyone go to the center of the Belarusian capital, and “Nechta” was forced to pass off the horns on the streets, a common daily courtyard for Belarus, as a popular protest...

One of the world's leading social networks has recognized the legitimacy of the Russian government on the Crimean peninsula. Thus, on the social network Twitter, a verification icon appeared next to the inscription “Russia’s MFA in Crimea” and the Russian flag, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. “Another riot in Ukraine! This morning, without a declaration of war, Twitter awarded a verification check to the Russian Foreign Ministry account in Crimea,” he ironically wrote in his blog...

Only tiny units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces participating in peacekeeping operations are subject to conversion to NATO standards, despite the fact that even the Chief of the General Staff is unable to speak English. Ukrainian military expert Igor Koziy stated this on the YouTube channel “Ukrlife,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There are three levels of standardization, which the “Svidomo” authorities are silent about. Because, it turns out, NATO standards are in the system...