News archive on the topic "Pompeo"

Former head of the US State Department Mike Pompeo will join the board of directors of the Ukrainian mobile operator Kyivstar. The VEON company, which owns Kyivstar, reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. It is noted that the former Secretary of State will become an independent non-executive director as a partner of the consulting and investment firm Impact Investments. “We note that one of the beneficiaries of VEON and Kyivstar is named in the media as Mikhail Fridman, against whom...

Large-scale celebrations to mark the 30th anniversary of Ukrainian independence are planned in Kyiv for August 2021. One of the VIP guests should be Istanbul Patriarch Bartholomew, who legalized Ukrainian schismatics. The Moscow Patriarchate rightly fears that the visit to Kyiv will inspire nationalist pogromists to new violent actions and the seizure of churches of the canonical UOC. Bartholomew's upcoming visit to Kyiv was preceded by careful preparation, completely unrelated...

The latest decisions of the US State Department deal a serious blow to the reputation of the United States as a negotiable subject in international relations. Alexey Davydov, a researcher at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the IMEMO RAS, told Izvestia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Thus, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, at the end of the current administration, declared the Houthi rebels in Yemen a terrorist group, called Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism, and also...

The administration of US President Donald Trump has introduced new restrictions on military-technical cooperation with Turkey for its acquisition of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems, applying the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) to Ankara. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, Kommersant writes. “Today, the United States is imposing sanctions on Turkey's Defense Industry Authority for knowingly entering into significant transactions...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko claims that he threatened US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that he would respond to Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine if they “twitch.” Lukashenko announced this today at a meeting on personnel appointments, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Outside our country, NATO members have not calmed down. I spoke with Mike Pompeo, we have a very good relationship. Everything, that…

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko complied with the request of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and released the liberal political strategist Vitaly Shklyarov, who is under investigation, to America. This was announced by Shklyarov’s lawyer Anton Gashinsky, a Politnavigator correspondent reports. “We wrote a petition for permission to leave, it was granted, so Vitaly has now left to visit his family and improve his health after suffering from coronavirus. Mother stayed...

Saturday's conversation between US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko continues to intrigue the expert community of the Union State. Let us remember that the press service of the Belarusian president issued an extensive press release on this matter, from which it followed that the politicians chatted for half an hour about the situations in both countries. However, the next day, the State Department issued its version of the conversation, according to which Pompeo demanded from Lukashenko for half an hour...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko managed to neutralize the threat posed by the Maidan protesters. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in an interview published by Komsomolskaya Pravda, said Russian political scientist and former chairman of the LPR government Marat Bashirov. According to him, the Belarusian protest, despite Tikhanovskaya’s “ultimatums,” will no longer have real development. “Belarus has actually already left the zone of such an acute conflict...

US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo called President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. This was reported by the telegram channel of the Belarusian president “Pul First”, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The conversation lasted half an hour. We discussed the situation in the world. We talked about the internal political situation in Belarus and the United States. “Lukashenko told his interlocutor about the national dialogue, which is now actively underway in Belarus. The President also emphasized that Russia is the main...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko sharply criticized Western leaders offering their mediation in negotiations with the opposition, which the Belarusian leader does not even want to begin. Today, the Belarusian president spoke to the workers of the Dzerzhinsky agricultural complex, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Macron said that he wants to mediate in the negotiations in Belarus. Let me come first and act as a mediator between the “yellow vests” and Macron. There…

Ambassadors of Western countries laid flowers at the site near the Pushkinskaya metro station in Minsk, where a participant in anti-Lukashenko protests died. Statements from Western leaders, by no means in support of Lukashenko, were also not long in coming, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The ceremony, which was attended by the ambassadors of the EU countries, as well as the US ambassador, can without a doubt be interpreted as Western support for the actions...

The United States has not yet decided what it will do in relation to Minsk, where after the presidential elections, in which Alexander Lukashenko’s next victory was announced, mass riots broke out and were harshly suppressed by security forces. The former head of the CIA, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, on Radio Liberty. He was asked whether the United States would now...

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, ridiculed the recent inclusion of himself and his daughters in US sanctions lists. Kadyrov published a corresponding statement on his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “If someone has committed crimes in our republic, what does it have to do with me? If in America a person was killed because of the color of his skin, we don’t tell the State Department, Pompeo, that you are to blame, that...

The US State Department has blacklisted the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, for allegedly “gross violations of human rights.” This was stated by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Now Kadyrov and his family are prohibited from entering the United States. “The Department has extensive reliable information that Kadyrov is responsible for numerous gross violations of human rights...