Section: Albanian Telegraphic Agency (Albania)
Death toll in east Ukraine conflict nears 7,000 – UN report
The number of internally displaced persons has reached more than1.4 million UNITED NATIONS /TASS/. A total of 6,832 people have been killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine since the conflict began and the death toll continues to rise, aid agencies said on Monday. “In total, since mid-April 2014 to 27 July 2015, at least 6,832 people (both military...
Russia FM hopes trilateral Ukraine summit will be “educational”
The leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine will meet in Berlin on August 24 MOSCOW /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said he hopes French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will influence Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and persuade Kiev to implement the Minsk agreements. The leaders of France,...
Any concern on likely disruption of Albania’s wheat supply, absolutely baseless
TIRANA, Aug 21 (ATA) – The embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Albania is appalled by the publication of numerous materials in the Albanian media that Albania risks disruption of Russian wheat supply. In a press release the embassy announces that “It is a fact that in accordance with a recent decision of Russian govt., Albania...
Albania, part of new USAID programme on energy security and market transparency
TIRANA, Aug 17 (ATA) – USAID announces that this summer it hosted energy regulators from Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, and Ukraine for the launch of a new program to support regional energy security and market transparency. During the program (2015-16), the regulators will be supported in the...
Russia adds new countries to its sanctions list
The list now includes Albania, Montenegro, Iceland and Liechtenstein, as well as Ukraine, under special conditions MOSCOW /TASS/. Russia has added new countries to its list of counter sanctions. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told a government meeting on Thursday that he had signed an instruction to expand a list of countries falling...
Russia sends new humanitarian convoy to Donbas
MOSCOW /TASS/. A new humanitarian aid convoy from Russia is traveling towards the state border with Ukraine, a source from the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations has told Tass. The source said the convoy left the Don Rescue Center of the Emergencies Ministry [in the Ukraine-bordering Rostov region] at 4 am, Moscow time, heading to the...
Montenegro regrets being included in Russia’s tit-for-tat sanctions list
Russia on Thursday added Albania, Montenegro, Iceland and Liechtenstein to its sanctions list BELGRADE /TASS/. Montenegro’s government has expressed regret over the decision to expand a list of countries falling under counter-sanctions imposed by Moscow on a number of European and North American countries. “The government of Montenegro...
Kiev dismisses LPR reports about lethal weapons supplied from Poland, Italy
A representative of the emergencies ministry of the self-proclaimed republic said earlier Kiev forces were using mines received from Poland and Italy KIEV /TASS/. Kiev has dismissed reports from the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) saying the Ukrainian military in Donbas are using foreign lethal weapons. Alexander Brovko, a...
OSCE observers again come under fire in eastern Ukraine – chairperson-in-office
Ivica Dacic urged the parties to the conflict not to impede the work of the Special Monitoring Mission and denounced the recent OSCE car arson attack in Donetsk VIENNA /TASS/. Observers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have come under fire again in eastern Ukraine, says a statement of the organization’s...
France makes mistake cancelling Mistral deal under pressure – politician
According to the French politician, despite certain well-known diplomatic obstacles, some U.S. companies continue to develop fruitful cooperation with Russia PARIS /TASS/. France has made a mistake succumbing to pressure from “some allies” and refusing to supply two Mistral helicopter carriers built for the Russian Navy to Russia, French...
