At least 80 members of Russian diplomatic missions in Italy work for Russia's main intelligence services: the Main Intelligence Directorate, the Federal Security Service, and the Foreign Intelligence Service. This is reported by La Repubblica […]
03.04.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
France and Germany have different stances on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, but discussions are ongoing between the countries to find a common vision for the project, Minister of State for European Affairs of France […]
02.04.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Lately there has been a lot of talk about the active movement of large number of troops and equipment. Moscow's formal explanation: scheduled final inspection of military units and preparations for the West 2021 strategic […]
02.04.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Over the past 24 hours, 28 March, 10 ceasefire violations were recorded in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) area in Donbas, including eight attacks on Ukrainian positions, one incident of remote mine delivery and one […]
29.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
In 2018, the Consul General of Russia in Strasbourg was expelled from France for espionage. Recently, this story has gained wide resonance in the French, as well as Ukrainian and even Russian media and social […]
27.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Decline in public support for the president spurs Russian government into dangerous adventures Vladimir Putin must experience a life triumph now: on 24 March, the State Duma passed at third reading the constitutional amendments to […]
26.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The publication of main provisions of the peace plan for the settlement of the situation in Donbas “Key Clusters for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements,” finalised by Ukraine, Germany and France, in the Russian […]
25.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Kirovske District Court found Crimean Tatar Medzhyt Abliamitov guilty of participating in the Noman Çelebicihan Voluntary Battalion under Article 208.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in illegal armed formation) and […]
24.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 22 March, a new EU human rights sanctions regime took effect. China, Russia, Myanmar and Libya will be the first countries to face new sanctions. These will be personal blocking restrictions: ban on entry […]
23.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Attempted annexation of the Crimea by Russian Federation since 2014 has been condemned in a series of international acts, including UN GA resolutions 68/262, 75/192, 75/29 and others, resolutions of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, of […]
22.03.2021 • Natalia Tolub
In 2021, the citizens of Ukraine may lose about 10,000 land plots in the territory of Crimea. The one-year term, which the Russian occupation authorities gave to "foreigners" for alienation, expires in March. Human rights […]
17.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
To: Refat Chubarov, Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People My dear friend Refat, We met in Riga 33 years ago, during the establishment of the People’s Front and the Singing Revolution. You stood […]
16.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Recently, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov made a statement on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Russia's accession to the Council of Europe. However, Russia, which joined this international […]
15.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has opened 16,643 criminal proceedings over treason and terrorism since 2014, Chief of SBU Ivan Bakanov announced after the National Security and Defence Council meeting. "Any crime against statehood […]
15.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 11 March, the armed formations of the Russian Federation again violated the ceasefire and fired aimed shots on positions of Ukrainian defenders near Novozvanivka in the area of responsibility of the operational and tactical […]
12.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Russian special services conduct purposeful activity against Ukraine in the information sphere and have separate units that work exclusively to stir up the situation in Ukraine. “Against the backdrop of a hybrid war, the scale […]
10.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Germany has been the target of Russian disinformation campaigns most often compared to other EU countries. In particular, more than 700 such cases have been recorded since the end of 2015, reads the report of […]
09.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Toxic ties with Russia make Armenia lose historic prospects and fall into frustration. On Thursday, 25 February, global news agencies spread the news about an attempted military coup in Armenia. The General Staff demanded the […]
05.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The European Union is concerned about the fact that the OSCE SMM revealed a modern Russian radar station, 51U6 Kasta-2E1, which is used in the Russian Armed Forces, in the occupied Donbas. “The EU is […]
05.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 7 December, the Council of the European Union adopted a global human rights sanctions regime. The established legal framework provides for the EU travel ban and the freezing of funds applying to individuals and […]
04.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak