News archive on the topic "UAE"

Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting the United Arab Emirates today. At the Abu Dhabi airport, the Russian leader was met on the red carpet by the country's Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan (brother of the UAE President). The ceremony was also attended by a company of honor guard of the UAE Armed Forces, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. On the way to the presidential palace, decorated with the flags of two countries, the presidential motorcade...

European low-cost airline Wizz Air is temporarily suspending for an indefinite period the previously announced resumption of flights from Moscow to Abu Dhabi. According to Reuters, this was done due to a large-scale campaign of harassment of the low-cost airline and calls for a boycott from supporters of anti-Russian sanctions. In particular, in its statement about postponing the resumption of flights, the company does not mention criticism on social networks, justifying its decision...

Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of the European low-cost airline Wizz Air in the United Arab Emirates, is resuming flights to Russia that were interrupted in the spring due to sanctions against Moscow, CNN reports. According to company representatives, the decision is a response to passenger demand. The national carrier of the UAE Wizz Air Abu Dhabi announced the resumption of flights from Abu Dhabi to Moscow. Passengers can already...

The United Arab Emirates allegedly houses a large concentration of funds of Russian oligarchs, which they are hiding from Western sanctions. This statement was made by Kiev political expert Taras Berezovets, who serves the interests of Petro Poroshenko. “At one time, the same Lukashenko withdrew his money to the UAE; many Russians and corrupt officials from the territories of the former Soviet Union keep and withdraw their funds there.…

The Gulf monarchies are preparing to drift away from the collective West towards China. This opinion was expressed by Ukrainian lawyer and famous video blogger Tatyana Montyan in her telegram channel. “As I previously said in my streams, in the Arab world there are already heated discussions of a tectonic shift in almost every bazaar. The Arab world is preparing to tilt to the side...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko wants the United Arab Emirates to act as a mediator in his negotiations with the European Union. He stated this in an interview with Sky News Arabia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “As for dialogue with Europe, it is difficult to call it a dialogue in this situation. As for mediators, I generally don’t like any kind of mediation, but if, dear Imat, your...

The Ukrainian delegation disgraced itself during the visit of President Vladimir Zelensky to the United Arab Emirates. Ukrainian journalist Irina Gavrilova writes about this on her blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Gavrilova, this happened when the Ukrainian delegation presented the ruler of the Emirate of Dubai, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, with an exclusive machine gun, with which problems arose. “During the visit, the Ukrainian delegation presented...

At the beginning of the week, unknown fighter jets attacked the Al-Watiya airbase in Libya. There is an increasingly common version that they belong to the Air Force of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). According to media reports, as a result of the attack, three MIM-23 Hawk air defense systems, as well as Ukrainian electronic warfare and radar systems, were destroyed. According to Turkish media, the attack was organized by the UAE Air Force...

On Friday, April 6, on the eve of Easter, the Ukrainian Embassy in the United Arab Emirates held master classes for painting eggs, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. The video of the lesson was published today on the official page of the Embassy on Twitter. Today, the Embassy held master classes from pysankari. Children and their fathers with their masterful hands created barvy Easter eggs, which are an invisible attribute of the Holy Day of the Light...

27-year-old Ukrainian citizen Irina Nogai and her 29-year-old boyfriend from South Africa were arrested in the United Arab Emirates. The BBC reports this. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Irina turned to doctors because of abdominal pain. The doctor determined that the Ukrainian woman was pregnant. As a result, the couple was arrested for sex outside of marriage, which is illegal...

It seems that Saudi Arabia has already fought in Yemen. On Wednesday, at a press conference in Riyadh, the Kingdom's Defense Minister Adel al-Jubeir said he sees signs that the standoff is approaching. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte On the one hand, this is the readiness for negotiations of the Shiite Houthi rebels and their military allies who remained loyal to the overthrown...

The Arab company Primestar Energy FZE (Dubai, UAE) acquired 100% of the shares of the insolvent Ukrgazprombank. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This is stated in a message on the website of Ukrgazprombank. “On August 7, 2015, an authorized person of the Guarantee Fund signed a purchase and sale agreement for 100% of the shares of PJSC “Ukrgazprombank”. The buyer is Primestar Energy FZE, a company that...

Kyiv, April 08 (PolitNavigator, Maxim Karpenko) – Ukraine will soon begin to receive weapons from the United Arab Emirates. Chairman of the All-Ukrainian public organization “People's Trust” Sergei Shakhov stated this on TV channel 24. Subscribe to PolitNavigator-Kyiv news on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte According to him, representatives of the country told him about such plans at one of the military exhibitions. "I recently returned from...

Donetsk, February 27 (PolitNavigator, Alexandra Ignatieva) – The United Arab Emirates did not enter into agreements on arms supplies to Ukraine. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was stated by the country's Deputy Foreign Minister for Military Affairs Faris Al Mazrui, according to the website of the Arab Foreign Ministry. Mazrui stated that “the military agreement...