News archive on the topic "South Africa"

The BRICS association can hardly be considered a community of reliable allies of Russia, because the countries included in it are not ready to take a unified position in the international arena. The director of the Institute of Regional Problems, Dmitry Zhuravlev, said this on the radio “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “A rather scandalous story happened - South Africa did not know what to do because it signed the charter...

Today there is one less foreign policy intrigue, charade and problem. Doubts have been resolved about who exactly will represent Russia at the upcoming milestone BRICS summit in August in Johannesburg, South Africa, at which this organization plans to expand with new members and formalize a number of important joint projects. In general, Putin will not go to South Africa after all - to avoid...

South Africa should not be recognized as a full-fledged state and racist practices must be returned to this country. This was stated on the air of the NTA TV channel by a professor at the Kyiv National University. Taras Shevchenko, ex-KGB officer Alexander Zelenko, reports PolitNavigator correspondent. “If any of our viewers found themselves in South Africa after the end of apartheid, and I’m sure a hundred out of a hundred would say:...

In addition to the Chinese plan for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Ukraine, there are initiatives from Brazil and South Africa. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated this today at a joint press conference with his Belarusian colleague, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There are other initiatives, as they are called – the Brazilian initiative, the initiative of the President of South Africa. In both cases, we answered...

South Africa remembers the help of the Soviet Union and equates Russia with it, therefore it supports it against the West. The Ambassador of Ukraine to South Africa Lyubov Abravitova stated this on Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the diplomat, South Africans say they “will not allow the West to destroy Putin.” “Russia doesn’t have many partners left with whom they could...

An arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, issued by the International Criminal Court, allegedly prevents the Russian leader from traveling to the BRICS summit in South Africa. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Ukrainian international lawyer Eric Kucherenko writes about this in the Kiev online publication Zerkalo Nedeli. He calls it “quite difficult” to arrest leaders of countries that are not, like Russia, the United States or China, participants...

The “world gendarmes” at the UN were reproached for double standards in relation to Ukraine and the war in Donbass. Thus, the representative of South Africa at the UN Security Council meeting held late the night before said that countries that talk about “Russian aggression” in Ukraine must first abandon the practice of carrying out “color revolutions” around the world, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We listened very carefully...

Ukraine does not have the money for a powerful rearmament of the army, and its defense enterprises are fleeing abroad. Director of the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Research Valentin Badrak stated this at the “New Strategy for Peace and Security” forum held in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “With our army budget, we cannot count on powerful rearmament. Even with those missiles...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov laughed it off when answering a question from a correspondent from South Africa at a press conference at the UN, who asked whether Russia was going to lure South African farmers. “We are interfering in the elections in Catalonia, so there is not enough time, it is too far,” Lavrov said. South Africa is now implementing a new policy...

Ilyichevsk, January 13 (PolitNavigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – Ilyichevsk seaport has resumed receiving and processing ships with imported thermal coal from South Africa. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Kyiv” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “On the evening of January 10, the vessel Rosco Poplar was delivered to berth No. 1 for processing. This is a bulk carrier with a length of 225 and a width of 32 meters. During the cargo work, the dockers and machine operators of the 1st terminal of the port...

Moscow - Kiev, November 18 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Due to problems with the supply of titanium ore from enterprises now controlled by the Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, the world's largest manufacturer of titanium products, the Russian association VSMPO-Avisma, began purchasing ore from Senegal . Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte As Izvestia found out, the Russian titanium manufacturer VSMPO-Avisma due to failures...