News archive on the topic "Paris"

Against the backdrop of ongoing migrant unrest in Paris, there are calls in the French media for the introduction of martial law, since even liberal media are no longer able to hush up the catastrophic nature of the situation. His French colleague Elena Kondratyeva-Salguero spoke about this on the channel of Israeli journalist Alexander Waldman, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “French flags are burned, Algerian flags are raised and, most importantly, to understand where this is all going...

Ukrainians should follow the example of the French, take to the streets and create riots, demanding that the insolent leadership comply with the Constitution. Ukrainian millionaire Gennady Balashov, who left for the United States, stated this in an interview with Kyiv propagandist Alexander Shelest, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Ukraine needs to dream of being like on the streets of Paris. For free citizens of France to run, sometimes...

On March 18, another protest took place in Paris against raising the retirement age to 64. As police banned rallies in the heart of the city, protesters gathered in the Plaza Italia. However, after the end of the action, some of its participants began to set fire to garbage cans and try to build barricades, which led to clashes with the police, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The promotions on March 18 took place...

Police used tear gas, water cannons and batons on the evening of March 16 to disperse thousands of spontaneous protests against raising the retirement age in Paris. As PolitNavigator reported, this law was adopted according to a special procedure, without voting in the lower house of parliament.  About seven thousand people gathered in the French capital on Thursday, March 16, for a spontaneous protest...

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky did not properly prepare for the meeting in Paris, demonstrated incompetence - and the agreements that were reached will not solve the problems. Zelensky’s ex-representative in the contact group in Minsk, diplomat Roman Bessmertny, stated this on Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In particular, in his opinion, the Russian and Ukrainian sides are investing...

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is afraid of nationalists in Kyiv - this was evident from his behavior at the meeting in the Normandy Format. Political scientist Alexander Formanchuk stated this in a commentary to PolitNavigator. The expert emphasized that Interior Minister Arsen Avakov came to Paris to supervise Zelensky at yesterday’s summit. “As expected, yesterday’s meeting in Paris could not bring any...

Ukrainian provocateurs, calling themselves “ATO veterans,” publicly tore and threw to the ground the tricolors of the Russian Federation and the DPR in the center of Paris. This was reported by the ZIK TV channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. The incident occurred in front of the Elysee Palace, where a meeting of the leaders of the Normandy Four states will soon take place. After the desecration of state symbols by militants of the “Movement of Veterans of Ukraine”, the police arrived at the scene, and...

Activists of the Ukrainian Veterans Movement, together with the Ukrainian diaspora, held a rally in Paris in support of the “pro-Ukrainian position” at the upcoming Normandy Four negotiations. This was reported by the Veterans Brotherhood Telegram channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. Several dozen protesters stretched out a French-language banner in the rain with the inscription “Russia is a terrorist state,” holding in their hands the flags of Ukraine, the European Union, as well as Bandera’s red and black...

The behavior of the leaders of the Normandy Four countries on December 9 in Paris will directly determine whether Ukraine will become the eastern border of Europe or remain the western border of Russia. The odious Lvov TV presenter Ostap Drozdov, famous for his pathological Russophobia, stated this on air on the NTA TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It is symbolic that we will talk eye to eye with a country that from the first...

The prospects for a meeting in the Normandy format are still vague, since the Ukrainian side simply has nothing to go to this meeting with. Ukraine is doing nothing to implement the Minsk agreements and the Steinmeier formula. Political scientist Denis Gaevsky stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There is a high probability that this meeting will be in the spirit of “talk”, like this...

Forbes journalist Rana Good advised travelers to go to Kyiv instead of Paris, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. She wrote about this in her publication on the pages of the publication. Among the advantages of the capital of Ukraine, the author of the material named a small number of tourists, good cuisine and free access to attractions. “Last year, 1,6 million people visited Kyiv, while...

In the illegally seized region of Kosovo by Albanian separatists, a political crisis continues due to the resignation of “Prime Minister” Ramush Haradinaj after his trip to The Hague for interrogation as part of a war crimes investigation. Now Pristina lives in anticipation of a decision on holding elections. If they are announced, the Paris summit, where in the presence of EU leaders it was planned to look for ways out of the crisis...

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, having arrived in Paris on a one-day official visit, visited the world's largest startup campus, Station F, opened by the President of France in June 2017, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. With almost 1000 projects from 50 countries, Station F in Paris is the largest startup complex in Europe. “This is a magnet for talented youth who create our common future.…

The French Ambassador to Ukraine Isabelle Dumont reprimanded political scientist Taras Berezovets, who works at Petro Poroshenko’s headquarters, for using the tragedy of the fire and partial destruction of Notre Dame Cathedral in order to fight against Vladimir Zelensky. "Shame on you?! Shame,” she wrote to Berezovets on Twitter. This happened after Poroshenko’s “court” political strategist linked the fire in the cathedral with a recent visit...