“Today, a Moscow court has confirmed the decision by the Russian Ministry of Justice to include the Memorial International Society on the list of “foreign agents”. This listing, made on 4 October 2016, brings the number of Memorial-affiliated NGOs included in the registry to eight and the number of Russian NGOs currently registered to…
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EU: six more months of sanctions against Russia
At press-conference, concluding the EU Summit, German chancellor Angela Merkel announced prolongation of sanctions regime against Russia for next six months. The legal procedure will be launched on Friday (16/12/2016), and fulfilled by written the beginning of the next week. According to the EU diplomats there are no changes or additions in the text of…
EU Summit: #May camertone
Arriving first to the European Counsil Summit, the UK Prime Minister Theresa May sets a camertone to the meeeting, welcoming #Brexit informal meeting, and ensuring active participation of the UK in debate on migration, tackling the root causes. Not least attention took the situation in Syria: May expressed her concern about the fate of…
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