Section: South Africa Today (South Africa)
Ukraine’s Attempts to Inspect Crimea ‘Provocative’ – Russian Foreign Ministry
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Ukraine’s attempts to inspect the Crimean territory are “provocative and futile,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a Saturday statement. “The current status of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol as Russian constituents is a settled issue. It is not a subject to revision… Thus, Russia is free to deploy...
Russia Has Proof of Yatsenyuk’s Involvement in Chechnya Executions in 1995
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Petrenko added that the investigative committee intended to seek the conviction of Yatsenyuk in accordance with the Russian legislation, using all legal instruments of the international law. “The committee has evidence that Ukraine’s former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk participated in at least two armed conflicts on...
Crimea Expects Growth of Tourist Flow From Ukraine in 2017 – Minister of Tourism
SIMFEROPOL (Sputnik) — The Crimean authorities expect an increase in the flow of tourists from Ukraine to the region during the summer season of 2017, which kicked off in the peninsula on Friday, Sergey Strelbitsky, the Crimean minister of resorts and tourism, told Sputnik. “The tourists from Ukraine will flock to the Crimean resorts. We are...
Kiev Court Extends Custody of Abducted Russian Serviceman Until July 13
KIEV (Sputnik) — The court ruled in March to extend Baranov’s custody until May 15. “The judges decided to extend Baranov’s detention period until July 13,”the judge said. In November 2016, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Baranov and another serviceman Maxim Odintsov were kidnapped and whisked across the border to the Mykolaiv...
Brussels to Keep Denying Crimean Self-Determination Until Trump Says Otherwise
On a visit to Crimea, former Vice-President of the OSCE Assembly Willy Wimmer, a Bundestag deputy who has also served as defense spokesman for Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and parliamentary state secretary to the German Defense Ministry, told Sputnik Deutschland that the Crimean people’s decision to join Russia was...
Ukrainian Man Faces Up to 15 Years in Prison for Illegal Entry to US
NEW YORK (Sputnik) — A Ukrainian national faces up to 15 years in prison for making false statement and illegally re-entering the United States after being deported, the US Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agency announced in a press release Wednesday. “Thiodore Igorovich Galista was arrested Tuesday morning in New York,” the release...
German Die Linke Lawmaker Denies Claims of Being Paid for Visiting Crimea
SIMFEROPOL (Sputnik) – The chairman of the German Left Party (Die Linke) parliamentary faction in the town of Quakenbrueck, Andreas Maurer, said Wednesday that his opponents’ claims that he was paid to visit Crimea were lies. “In Germany, my opponents are trying to discredit our visits to Crimea, claiming that I get paid for it. This is a...
German Lawmaker Says Ukraine’s 2014 Coup ‘Organized by West’
SIMFEROPOL (Sputnik) — The state coup in Ukraine in 2014 was organized by the West, member of Germany’s ruling party Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Willy Wimmer said on Wednesday. Wimmer is currently visiting Crimea as a member of a delegation of lawmakers and businesspeople from Germany and Austria. “What happened in Ukraine in 2014,...
Kiev Concerned by Reports US Might Slash Financial Aid
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — On Monday, Foreign Policy magazine, citing a Department of State budget document, reported that the United States was considering cutting Ukraine financial aid by some 68.8 percent. “The Embassy is concerned with the information in American press on the United States Administration’s budget proposals that may envisage...
Washington Wants OSCE to Lead Investigation Into Deadly Car Blast in Ukraine
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The OSCE should lead the investigation into an explosion that killed one of its Special Monitoring Mission members in eastern Ukraine, US Department of State acting spokesperson Mark Toner said in a briefing on Tuesday. “We believe this should be an OSCE led investigation because we want to find out exactly what happened,”...
