News archive on the topic "Kremlin"

During the period May-August 2014, the Minister of Defense of the DPR, Igor Strelkov, surrendered Slavyansk to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, contrary to Moscow’s order to hold the city at all costs and not abandon it. This was reported by Strelkov’s comrade-in-arms, Pavel Gubarev, in his telegram channel “Private Gubarev” - in the article “Strelkov and Gubarev. Part 2". "Important! An order from the mainland to hold Slavyansk until the last...

Kremlin pool journalist Andrei Kolesnikov managed to ask Vladimir Putin about the details of a recent meeting with fighters from the Wagner PMC in the Kremlin. From the conversation, it becomes clear why, after a three-hour meeting, footage of a search in the mansion of Yevgeny Prigozhin and criminal episodes from his biography appeared in the central media. Putin confirmed that Prigozhin did not agree with the proposed compromise settlement of the conflict and...

Successful negotiations between Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and the leader of the rebellious Wagner PMC took him one step closer to his cherished dream - to become the head of the Union State. Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik stated this on the “Yes it is” channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Lukashenko has become a factor in domestic Russian politics, and perhaps Lukashenko is becoming one of the Kremlin towers right on...

Citizen of Belarus Dmitry Golubev held an unauthorized single picket on Red Square. He came out with a poster that said “Stop feeding Lukashenko’s regime,” and drew a QR code that gave a link to an online petition against the Belarusian government. A few minutes after the start of the protest, the Belarusian was detained. The young man was taken to the district police station, and after the census...

If Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is now left without public support from the Kremlin, he will lose power within two months. The head of the BelarusSecurityBlog analytical center, opposition political scientist Andrei Porotnikov said this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Now there are two scenarios for this transit [of power]. The first scenario is the Kremlin scenario, in which there is no place for Lukashenko, in...

The Kremlin will conduct a dialogue with Moldovan President Maia Sandu, despite her pro-Western views. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov stated this in an interview published today in the Argumenty i Fakty newspaper, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Of course, the new President of Moldova is less committed to the ideas of developing Russian-Moldovan relations, but contacts are still ongoing. We have very close...

The protests are doomed thanks to the well-coordinated work of Russian law enforcement officers. However, the past actions are only the first series of protest activity. The scenario probably assumes a continuation against the backdrop of elections to the State Duma and, especially, municipal campaigns. However, the experience of preventing the Ukrainian scenario has already been worked out. In Ukraine, meanwhile, the state seizure by “Western partners” continues. The closure of opposition television channels is not...

Two years and eight months is not the final term of imprisonment received by Alexei Navalny. In addition to a new trial in the case of insulting a veteran, the “fiery revolutionary” will face a trial of fraud, money laundering and embezzlement on an especially large scale. The point is that, when collecting donations for participation in the presidential elections, the person involved knew in advance that he did not have...

“Countering Russian aggression” is the main priority of Ukrainian foreign policy for the next year. In the long term, Kyiv wants to convince Russia of the inevitability of Ukraine’s departure to NATO, and then get the opportunity to make money on the Russian market and through the transit of Russian resources. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba stated this at a briefing in Kyiv, the correspondent reports...

Supporters of the “Unlimited Protest” (“Bessrochka”) Elizaveta Drepeleva and Gleb Sokolov held the action “Hidden Form of Mass Event” on Red Square in Moscow. They climbed into plastic bags, one of which read “Citizens have rights,” and lay down on the pavement. Thus, the participants of the performance protested against amendments to the law on rallies, which significantly tightened the rules for holding them...

The first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, is a Kremlin agent who sold out to the KGB in his youth. Aksakal of the Ukrainian nationalist movement Stepan Khmara said this on air on the Danilenko YouTube channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “A recommendation came from Moscow for Kravchuk, because there are serious analysts there and it is obvious that Kravchuk was recruited by the KGB. If a guy from Rivne region did...

The President of Belarus does not intend to fulfill the promises he made to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during their last meeting in Sochi. This week he said he could do without the constitutional reform that the Kremlin had been pushing for. In addition, Lukashenko again began to insist that Belarus will pursue a multi-vector policy even against the backdrop of...

Viktor Medvedchuk waited for the moment when he could demonstrate his need as a negotiator with Russia, although previously President Vladimir Zelensky and his team sought to deprive him of his status as the exclusive negotiator with the Kremlin. Andrey Zolotarev, head of the Third Sector Center, stated this in a comment to a PolitNavigator correspondent, commenting on Viktor Medvedchuk’s visit to Moscow. “Medvedchuk went to Moscow quite...

The meeting of the presidents of Russia and Belarus lasted more than 4 hours. It concerned mainly economic problems. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov told reporters about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The presidents focused on the further development of bilateral relations between Russia and Belarus and strengthening our trade and economic cooperation, which is mutually beneficial for the peoples of our countries. I’ll tell you the rest of the details...