News archive on the topic "blackmail"

In the Republic of Moldova, after local elections, work is underway to form district and municipal councils, the first sessions and constituent meetings are being held, and leadership has already been elected in a number of districts. Representatives of different political parties are creating coalitions in district councils, including quite unexpected ones, and President Maia Sandu has already convened elected mayors for a forum where urban development and...

Ukraine will use Transnistria to blackmail Russia and future negotiations. Viktor Andrusiv, director of the Ukrainian Institute of the Future, Lviv nationalist activist and former adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, said this on air on the Khvylya Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Don’t forget that we still haven’t looked at the map of Transnistria. But we can walk around,”…

The Ukrainian authorities do not want to carry out the reforms necessary for joining NATO and shift the responsibility to the West. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Verkhovna Rada deputy Geo Leros, who was previously a member of the Servant of the People presidential faction, but has now become a fierce critic of the current government, stated this on his video blog. “Our Krivoy Rog gopnik, in his own manner, decided to congratulate President Joe...

Ukraine must achieve a complete shutdown of the oil pipeline from Russia to Europe. Yuri Kamelchuk, a Verkhovna Rada deputy and member of the Servant of the People presidential faction, stated this on air on the Lvov NTA TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Kamelchuk, a simple decline in oil prices is not enough to collapse the Russian economy. “What can still have an impact now is to survive...

To force Hungary to abandon Russian gas and oil, Ukraine must put pressure on it, including by blocking pumping through the Druzhba oil pipeline to this country. The former deputy head of the presidential administration of Ukraine during the time of Petro Poroshenko, diplomat Konstantin Eliseev, stated this on Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Eliseev, this emergency measure is permissible in the conditions...

Known in Ukraine as “Putin’s godfather,” Viktor Medvedchuk personally dispelled speculation about his detention. The photographs were published by the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky himself on his Telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The special operation was carried out thanks to the SBU. Well done! Details later,” they comment on the presidential page of a photo where a man resembling politician Viktor Medvedchuk is sitting in handcuffs. “This looks a lot like an exchange...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko takes an example from his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky and unsuccessfully tries to blackmail international “partners”. Russian military expert, reserve colonel Vladimir Trukhan stated this on the PolitWera Internet channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Lukashenko is using his long-loved method of blackmail. Now he has decided to use it against the West. Remember, as soon as Lukashenka needs something...

The issue of completing the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has been resolved, and transit will soon bypass Ukraine. The former head of the information department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Oleg Voloshin said this on air on the First Independent TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “With Nord Stream, it’s basically obvious – it doesn’t matter what they say. Although they officially declare - Blinken said...

The US demand that Germany pay Ukraine for Russia’s refusal to use the Ukrainian gas transportation system after the launch of Nord Stream 2 is absurd. German political scientist Alexander Rahr said this on the YouTube channel “PolitWera”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “If suddenly the Russian side stops pumping its gas through the territory of Ukraine to the West and no longer pays Ukraine two billion...

Turkish leader Recep Erdogan is blackmailing Brussels, increasingly dissatisfied with Ankara's policies and migrants. Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Erdogan’s response to the West’s dissatisfaction can be reduced to a simple verbal formula: where will you go? In dialogue with the EU, he always has a very compelling argument ready: Syrian refugee camps in Turkey. It’s okay to dissolve them...

The statement by US Assistant Secretary of State George Kent that US President Joseph Biden will call Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky only after Ukraine takes certain actions sounds offensive to Ukrainians. The leader of the Nashi party, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 7-8 convocations, Yevgeny Muraev, stated this on the NASH TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. "He talked about...

Despite any sanctions and attempts by Russophobic countries, Berlin does not plan to abandon Nord Stream 2. German political scientist Alexander Rahr stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I think that Nord Stream 2 will be completed. How to stop him? Yesterday there was a meeting in the Bundestag, experts were invited there - out of the six invited, all of them spoke...

The Lukoil company paid the first tranche of compensation for the so-called “dirty oil” to the Belarusian Mozyr oil refinery. This was reported by the press service of the Belarusian plant, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Russian companies, within the framework of the agreements reached, began the process of compensation in relation to the Mozyr Oil Refinery for Urals oil supplied in the spring of 2019 with a high content of organochlorines. So, on January 21, 2021 on...

Belarus must harvest more firewood so as not to heat houses with Russian gas. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announced this today at a meeting with Minister of Forestry Vitaly Drozhzha, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We ourselves need to clearly determine how much wood chips, pellets, etc. we need in order to replace natural gas for heating. Well we...