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Expelled Russians arrive home as Moscow warns against travel to UK
Moscow – Russian diplomats expelled from the United States arrived in Moscow on Sunday, with post-Cold War tensions peaking in the wake of a nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain. A deepening crisis in ties between Russia and the West has over the past weeks seen the biggest wave of tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions in recent...
Russia says Britain must cut over 50 diplomats as spy crisis deepens
Russia said on Saturday that Britain had to reduce its diplomatic staff by more than 50 more people as a crisis in ties between Moscow and the West escalated over the nerve agent attack on a former spy. The new measures came after 23 British diplomats left Russia earlier this month and are seen as Moscow’s punishment after Britain’s...
Russia Tells UK, It Must Send Home ‘Just Over 50’ of Its Diplomats – Zakharova
“We asked for parity. The Brits have 50 diplomats more than the Russians,” said Zakharova. Over the past few days, more than 25 countries, including numerous EU member states, the United States, Canada, Albania, Norway and Ukraine, have announced their decisions to collectively expel over 150 Russian diplomats as a sign of solidarity with London...
US Urges Ukraine to Abolish Declaration of Assets for Civil Activists
“The United States strongly encourages the government of Ukraine to repeal legislation that requires the asset declarations from civil society and international members of state-owned-enterprise supervisory boards,” Nauert said. “Ukraine’s asset declaration system should hold public officials accountable and not place unnecessary burdens or...
Western diplomats expelled from Russia in tit-for-tat retaliation
Moscow – Russia retaliated on Friday against a wave of expulsions of Russian diplomats from Western countries by expelling the same number of diplomats from those countries. Numerous ambassadors were summoned to appear at Russia’s Foreign Ministry to receive the order for expulsions from the country, amid a dispute that has devastated...
Kremlin: Most of ‘Fake Reports’ on Russian Mall Fire Come From Ukraine, Turkey
“It was not without the so-called well-wishers: those who knowingly distributed such [false] information. We have established the origin of fake reports, they mainly came from two countries: Ukraine and Turkey. It is another question why [it came] from these countries but information about 300-400-500 dead originated this way,” Peskov said...
Kiev Appeals Court Rules to Remand Rada Lawmaker Savchenko in Custody
KIEV (Sputnik) — The Kiev Appeals Court decided on Thursday to remand Verkhovna Rada lawmaker Nadezhda Savchenko in custody, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the courtroom. “Leave appeals of defenders in the interest of Savchenko without satisfaction,” the presiding judge announced. According to the Prosecutor General’s Office of...
Russian Court Arrests Ukrainian Prankster Over Provocations About Mall Fire
“The court backed the investigators’ legal action,” Yunona Tsareva, the court’s spokeswoman told Sputnik on Wednesday. Earlier on Wednesday, the Investigative Committee said in a statement that Ukrainian national Nikita Kuvikov, known by his prankster name Evgeniy Volnov, had been spreading false information about the number of...
Ukraine’s ‘Joan of Arc’ accused of plotting coup in Kiev
Kiev – Two years ago, Nadia Savchenko, a Ukrainian helicopter pilot who had been taken prisoner by pro-Russian forces in the country’s east, returned from captivity to a tumultuous hero’s welcome.Today she is once again behind bars – only this time she’s been put there by Ukrainian authorities.Savchenko was arrested...
Ukrainian Phone Prankster Spreads Fake News About Deadly Siberia Mall Fire
A Russian Investigative Committee spokeswoman told journalists that the agency managed to “identify a foreign national who deliberately spread false information about the number of victims of the fire in Kemerovo in an attempt to destabilize the situation in the region.” Earlier a Ukrainian phone prankster known as Evgeny Volnov posted an audio...
