More than 200 international observers arrive in Ukraine for election to Verkhovna Rada - TASS

July 15, 2019

Russia Ukraine More than 200 international observers arrive in Ukraine for election to Verkhovna Rada - TASS The Daily Beast: Russia's election hackers targeting George Soros - Kyiv Post Russian, Ukrainian human rights chiefs to hash over citizen rights' protection in Kiev - TASS Ukraine should not negotiate with Russia-backed occupants, - head of Servant of People party - 112 International Chernobyl’s effects go far beyond what you’re seeing on HBO. It shook up geopolitics for years. - Washington Post More than 200 international observers arrive in Ukraine for election to Verkhovna Rada - TASS TASS KIEV, July 15. /TASS/. More than 200 observers from foreign states and international organizations have arrived in Ukraine for an early election to Verkhovna Rada, head of the Department for Relations with the Media of the Ukrainian State Border Service Andrei Demchenko said on Monday. Read More The Daily Beast: Russia's election hackers targeting George Soros - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post The Daily Beast: Russia’s election hackers targeting George Soros Published July 15. Updated July 15 at 2:11 pm George Soros, Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Foundations arrives for a meeting in Brussels, on April 27, 2017. Read More Russian, Ukrainian human rights chiefs to hash over citizen rights' protection in Kiev - TASS TASS MOSCOW, July 15. /TASS/. Russian Ombudswoman Tatyana Moskalkova will discuss the issues of mutual protection of citizens' rights and dialogue between human rights bodies with her Ukrainian counterpart Lyudmila Denisova, Moskalkova’s official website reported on Monday. Read More Ukraine should not negotiate with Russia-backed occupants, - head of Servant of People party - 112 International 112 International Ukraine should not negotiate with Russia-backed occupants, - head of Servant of People party 'The dialogue must be held with those actually making decisions. I'm sure that today, the representatives of so-called DNR and LNR are absolutely dependable', Dmytro Razumkov said Read More Chernobyl’s effects go far beyond what you’re seeing on HBO. It shook up geopolitics for years. - Washington Post Washington Post An employee looks at monitors in the control room of the New Safe Confinement metal dome, which was designed and built by French consortium Novarka and encases the reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, on July 10, in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Read More

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PM Groysman: Ukraine cannot stop train service with Russia over obligations to EU - UNIAN-Economy

July 14, 2019

Russia Ukraine PM Groysman: Ukraine cannot stop train service with Russia over obligations to EU - UNIAN-Economy Information Resistance: Russia to force Ukraine to restore water supplies to Crimea - Kyiv Post RFE/RL: Russia successfully launches next-generation space telescope - Kyiv Post Oliver Stone's Latest Piece of Pro-Putin Propaganda May Be His Most Shameless Move Yet - The Daily Beast Bloomberg: Putin seeks to lock in parliament control - Kyiv Post PM Groysman: Ukraine cannot stop train service with Russia over obligations to EU - UNIAN-Economy UNIAN-Economy PM Groysman: Ukraine cannot stop train service with Russia over obligations to EUUkraine has international obligations to the EU under the Association Agreement. PM Groysman / Photo from UNIAN Read More Information Resistance: Russia to force Ukraine to restore water supplies to Crimea - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Russia's War Against Ukraine Information Resistance: Russia to force Ukraine to restore water supplies to Crimea Published July 14. Updated July 14 at 12:41 pm Local residents line up to get drinking water from a water tanker in the ancient Crimean town of Stary Krym, on May 13, 2014. Read More RFE/RL: Russia successfully launches next-generation space telescope - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post RFE/RL: Russia successfully launches next-generation space telescope Published July 14 at 12:21 pm A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying the Spain's satellite Amazonas-5 blasts off from the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early on Sept. Read More Oliver Stone's Latest Piece of Pro-Putin Propaganda May Be His Most Shameless Move Yet - The Daily Beast The Daily Beast When Oliver Stone announced at the end of June that he would be premiering a new documentary, Revealing Ukraine, at the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily, not many people noticed. That’s not itself so surprising given his slide over recent years from producing acclaimed Hollywood blockbusters into bootlicking hagiographies of dictators with axes to grind against the United States. Read More Bloomberg: Putin seeks to lock in parliament control - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Bloomberg: Putin seeks to lock in parliament control Published July 14 at 9:57 am Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev speaks during his annual address to the State Duma, the lower chamber of Russia's parliament, in Moscow on April 17, 2019. Read More

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Ukraine expresses support for Sentsov on his birthday, again demands that Russia release him - Interfax Ukraine

July 13, 2019

Russia Ukraine Ukraine expresses support for Sentsov on his birthday, again demands that Russia release him - Interfax Ukraine No, we aren’t on the brink of a new Cold War with Russia and China - Brookings Institution Giacomo Sanfilippo: Confronting the Orthodox Church's Soviet past - Kyiv Post UNIAN: Zelensky pardons Kremlin's political prisoner Lytvinov - Kyiv Post NEWSBRIEFS - The Ukrainian Weekly Ukraine expresses support for Sentsov on his birthday, again demands that Russia release him - Interfax Ukraine Interfax Ukraine 15:32 13.07.2019 Ukraine expresses support for Sentsov on his birthday, again demands that Russia release him Director Oleh Sentsov, unlawfully convicted in Russia, turned 43 years old, and the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine again demanded his release. Read More No, we aren’t on the brink of a new Cold War with Russia and China - Brookings Institution Brookings Institution Increasingly in U.S. national security circles, it has become common to hear talk of a new Cold War with great-power rivals. But this way of thinking is imprecise at best, dangerous at worst. Read More Giacomo Sanfilippo: Confronting the Orthodox Church's Soviet past - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post My readers can be forgiven if they hoped that my July 5 “The Patriarchal Saga that Keeps on Giving” would be my final word on Filaret Denysenko. I had certainly hoped that it would be. Read More UNIAN: Zelensky pardons Kremlin's political prisoner Lytvinov - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post UNIAN: Zelensky pardons Kremlin’s political prisoner Lytvinov Published July 13. Updated July 13 at 9:11 am Ukrainian citizen Serhiy Litvinov was among those who were unlawfully held and convicted in Russia. Read More NEWSBRIEFS - The Ukrainian Weekly The Ukrainian Weekly Zelenskyy: ‘No expensive military parade’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that the country will not hold an “expensive” military parade as it has in years past on the country’s Independence Day, August 24. Read More

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Ukraine forces in Donbas shoot down another Russian drone - UNIAN

July 12, 2019

Russia Ukraine Ukraine forces in Donbas shoot down another Russian drone - UNIAN Russia conducting operation to force Ukraine to restore water supplies to Crimea – Information Resistance - Interfax Ukraine Japanese Ambassador Takashi Kurai pledges strong support for Ukraine - Kyiv Post MFA Ukraine responds to Russia's move to recognize "undesirable" activities of Ukrainian World Congress - UNIAN NATO North Atlantic Council to visit Ukraine in October - 112 International Ukraine forces in Donbas shoot down another Russian drone - UNIAN UNIAN Ukraine forces in Donbas shoot down another Russian drone13:20, 12 July 2019 War 0 0 The UAV was flying at an altitude of about 500-600 meters. REUTERS Azov regiment reports on the downing in the Donbas warzone's Svitlodarska Duha arc area of a Russian-made Eleron-type drone."The UAV was spotting the enemy artillery fire amid intensified shelling. Read More Russia conducting operation to force Ukraine to restore water supplies to Crimea – Information Resistance - Interfax Ukraine Interfax Ukraine 13:05 12.07.2019 Russia conducting operation to force Ukraine to restore water supplies to Crimea – Information Resistance Russia is actively lobbying for the restoration of water supplies to Russia-occupied Crimea using the North-Crimean Canal, the public organization Information Resistance (IR) has said. Read More Japanese Ambassador Takashi Kurai pledges strong support for Ukraine - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Takashi Kurai, Japan’s ambassador to Ukraine, arrived in Kyiv for assignment in January. But he wanted to take several months to meet people, travel the country and gain a better understanding of what’s happening before giving interviews. Read More MFA Ukraine responds to Russia's move to recognize "undesirable" activities of Ukrainian World Congress - UNIAN UNIAN MFA Ukraine responds to Russia's move to recognize "undesirable" activities of Ukrainian World CongressThe ministry added that Ukraine was ready to take all steps necessary in response to this "shameful" decision of the aggressor state. Read More NATO North Atlantic Council to visit Ukraine in October - 112 International 112 International Zelensky, Stoltenberg in Brussels, June 2019 NATO North Atlantic Council will visit Ukraine on October 30-31. However, it should take place in July 2019 as Deutsche Welle reported. Read More

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Ukraine soccer league expands after conflict disruption - Washington Post

July 11, 2019

Russia Ukraine Ukraine soccer league expands after conflict disruption - Washington Post Russian police detain Crimean Tatar protesters outside supreme court: monitor - Reuters Tensions between Russia and Georgia are on the rise again: Here's why it matters - CNBC Press review: How Ukraine's vote will affect Moscow and Syria slams UK over seized tanker - TASS Associated Press: Russia urges restraint amid new Gulf tensions - Kyiv Post Ukraine soccer league expands after conflict disruption - Washington Post Washington Post KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s soccer league is expanding back to 16 teams after years of turmoil sparked by the annexation of Crimea and the conflict in the country’s east. The Ukrainian Football Federation says the coming 2019-20 season will be the last with 12 teams before an expansion to 14 for 2020-21 and 16 the following year. Read More Russian police detain Crimean Tatar protesters outside supreme court: monitor - Reuters Reuters FILE PHOTO: A still image taken from a video footage and obtained by Reuters on July 10, 2019, shows Crimean Tatars during a demonstration to draw attention to alleged rights abuses in Crimea, in Red Square in Moscow, Russia. Read More Tensions between Russia and Georgia are on the rise again: Here's why it matters - CNBC CNBC Demonstrators attend a march on the tenth day protests over a Russian lawmakers visit to Georgia's parliament on June 29, 2019 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The protests erupted after a controversial visit by Sergei Gavrilov, a Russian lawmaker of the Russian State Duma from the Communist Party. Read More Press review: How Ukraine's vote will affect Moscow and Syria slams UK over seized tanker - TASS TASS Vedomosti: Kremlin’s backing of Medvedchuk’s party mobilizes anti-Russian forces Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev held talks with leaders of Ukraine’s Opposition Platform - For Life party Viktor Medvedchuk and Yuri Boiko on Wednesday. Read More Associated Press: Russia urges restraint amid new Gulf tensions - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Associated Press: Russia urges restraint amid new Gulf tensions Published July 11 at 12:47 pm The flag of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) flutters in front of the IAEA building in Vienna on July 10, 2019. Read More

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Russia urges U.S., Ukraine to support its anti-Nazism efforts - The Jerusalem Post

July 10, 2019

Russia Ukraine Russia urges U.S., Ukraine to support its anti-Nazism efforts - The Jerusalem Post Russian police detain Crimean Tatar protesters on Moscow's Red Square - Reuters Robert Mueller Missed the Crime: Trump's Campaign Coordinated With Russia - The Daily Beast UN Human Rights Council 44: Ukraine - GOV.UK Kremlin sees no progress on exchange of detained individuals between Russia, Ukraine – spokesman - RT Russia urges U.S., Ukraine to support its anti-Nazism efforts - The Jerusalem Post The Jerusalem Post The United States should support efforts by Russia to combat the glorification of Nazism, including a draft UN resolution submitted by Russia against the glorification of Nazism, said its ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov, according to the Russian Tass News Agency. Read More Russian police detain Crimean Tatar protesters on Moscow's Red Square - Reuters Reuters MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police detained seven Crimean Tatars on Moscow’s Red Square on Wednesday after dispersing a demonstration that had aimed to draw attention to alleged rights abuses on the Black Sea peninsula which Russia annexed from Ukraine five years ago. Read More Robert Mueller Missed the Crime: Trump's Campaign Coordinated With Russia - The Daily Beast The Daily Beast Ever since the release of the Mueller Report, countless commentators have implored everyone to just #ReadtheReport. The problem is not who is reading it—the problem is the report itself, and its many errors.  Read More UN Human Rights Council 44: Ukraine - GOV.UK GOV.UK Thank you, Madam Vice-President, The United Kingdom thanks the High Commissioner for her update and welcomes the 26th report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, based on the work of the Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. Read More Kremlin sees no progress on exchange of detained individuals between Russia, Ukraine – spokesman - RT RT There has been no progress regarding the exchange of detained individuals between Russia and Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. “The issue is discussed by the Contact Group [on eastern Ukraine], but for now we see that there are no results,” he told reporters. Read More

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