Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree, which makes it possible for residents of Donbass to obtain Russian citizenship under a simplified procedure. The document has been published on the Kremlin’s website. Putin signs decree easing citizenship rules for residents of certain Ukrainian regionshttps://t.co/YqBggYQJ6v pic.twitter.com/oXXvFTkTwk — TASS (@tassagency_en) April 24, 2019 Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko …
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Russians dream to immigrate
Russian Federation is dangerously close to a large-scale demographic crisis, with its population declining for the first time in a decade in 2018, one in five Russians (20%) now say that they would like to leave Russia if they could, according to Gallup research. One in five Russians now say that they would like to…
MEPs against Russia ‘strategic partner’ status
At Strasbourg Plenary (13.03.2019) Members of the European Parliament agreed that the EU should remain open to imposing further sanctions if Russia continues to violate international law. Parliament adopted a resolution by 402 votes to 163, with 89 abstentions, assessing the current state of EU-Russia political relations. “The time for nice and diplomatic language is…
Putin receives Bolton in Kremlin
Preparations for a potential Russian-US summit is among the issues brought up by US National Security Adviser John Bolton at his current meetings in Moscow, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed. Kremlin intends to hash over Russia-US ties, global issues with Trump adviserhttps://t.co/qMHX8HvTwC© Vladimir Gerdo/TASS pic.twitter.com/01CHgHQHeA — TASS (@tassagency_en) June 27, 2018 “While in…
EU calls for transparent investigation of Babchenko assassination
“The European Union expresses its sincere condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of journalist Arkady Babchenko, who was killed at his home in Kyiv on 29 May”- the External Action Service reacted in a statement of a spokesperson. EU expresses its sincere condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Arkady Babchenko. Each time…
Putin IV inauguration reduced opulence
The Kremlin press secretary, Dmitry Peskov informed that the inauguration ceremony is planned to begin at noon Moscow time in the Grand Kremlin Palace, where Vladimir Putin will arrive from his office in building 1 located on the same Kremlin territory, according to TASS news agency. Putin will begin his next stint as leader two days after…
Putin leads with 73% of votes
According to partial results made public by the electoral commission the incumbent President Vladimir Putin is leading with 73% of votes: First-time Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin is running second with 15 percent, while veteran nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who first ran against Boris Yeltsin in 1991, rounds out the top three with about seven percent….
Russian diplomats to leave UK on 20th of March
Russian ambassador to UK confirms expelled diplomats will leave on March 20, 2018. Kremlin spox Peskov: shocking and unforgivable violation of diplomatic norms pic.twitter.com/wsma8udJmf — Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) March 16, 2018 The UK this accused Russian government of a chemical-weapons with attack on British soil targeting Sergei Skripal, a former double agent. Any evidence…
Lavrov expects samples of poison from UK
Moscow will not respond to the UK request about a clandestine USSR chemical weapon allegedly ‘Novichok’ used in an ex-double agent’s poisoning until a sample of the element is provided, the Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said. BREAKING: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Russia is demanding access to samples of the nerve agent that poisoned…
Moscow considers U.S. anti-Russian sanctions “unlawful”
Moscow considers sanctions against Russia over the situation in Ukraine unlawful, Russia’s RIA news agency reports, referring to the Kremlin spokesman. The measures extended for one year were announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, in a letter dated March 2 and published on the White House website, in which he underlining that the sanctions against Russia…