A genuine poll launched by a Russian journalist Dimitry Smirnov showed 70% of participants refused to vote for the incumbent president Vladimir Putin if asked to drop off a ballot today. The Twitter poll organized by Dmitry Smirnov, a journalist from Kremlin pool – a special correspondent of Komsomolskaya Pravda (www.kp.ru) – one of the…
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The Article 50 procedure
The UK government will announce today it is invoking article 50 of the Treaty of the EU, which serves as formal notification of its intent to withdraw from the Union. Starting today the UK and the EU have two years to negotiate a withdrawal agreement. In addition the two will need to start determining the…
Europarliament debates terrorism
Only days after the terrorist attack in London the civil liberties committee discussed the EU’s security situation with German Interior Minister Interior Thomas de Maizière and his French counterpart Matthias Fekl debated on 27 March. Both ministers spoke about the need to secure the EU’s external borders, to better share information between EU countries and…
UK breaks away from EU
Prime Minister Theresa May will file formal Brexit request on Wednesday, 29 of March 2017, fulfilling the wish people enshrined in the referendum on the UK membership in the European Union. Nine months after Britons voted to leave, May will notify EU Council President Donald Tusk in a letter that the UK really is quitting…
Montenegro to join NATO
The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve the expansion of NATO to allow Montenegro to join the alliance. As voting continued, the vote was 86 to 2 in favor of Montenegro’s accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The vote sends the issue to the White House for President Donald Trump’s signature. https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/846830360549830656
Scottish referendum would be "unfair"
The Scottish legislature in Edinburgh voted by a majority of 69 to 59 to give First Minister Nicola Sturgeon a mandate to formally seek permission from the British parliament in London to prepare for a referendum in late 2018 or early 2019. “The people of Scotland should have the right to choose between Brexit, possibly…
NATO-Russia Council to resume its work
“Following consultations with the members of the NATO-Russia Council, I have invited them to a meeting at ambassadorial level,” says the announcement of the NATO headquarters in Brussels. .@jensstoltenberg announces next meeting of the #NATO-Russia Council on 30 March at NATO HQ in Brussels: https://t.co/asgUjcyBdu pic.twitter.com/7nGjuiXIa7 — Oana Lungescu (@NATOpress) March 28, 2017 The…
Is Medvedev aware Russian people demand his resignation?
Russian social media is guessing if prime minister Dmitry Medvedev (pictured) is aware of what happens in the country, while skiing amid a massive anti-corruption protests demanding his resignation. “How was your day?” an Instagram user identified as inspiridonoff messaged Medvedev within hours after Russia saw its largest nationwide demonstrations in years, underscored by calls…
Italy calls for invesigation of NGO "taxi service" to migrants
The officials in Italy suspect that rescue vessels operated by charities and humanitarian organizations co-operate with smugglers based in Libya. Some of these NGOs act as a sort of “taxi service” by picking refugees up just off the African coast and then transporting them across the Mediterranean Sea to Italy instead of returning them to…
Navalny jailed due to prosecutorial misconduct
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been sentenced to 15 days in prison after being detained at a major opposition protest that he had inspired by issuing a video exposing an outstanding wealth of the incumbent Russia’s prime minister Dmitry Medvedev in a trial many experts access as a ‘prosecutorial misconduct’ to jail a political opponent of…
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