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  • General Vatutin changes flag, heading for Russia's Rostov-on-Don General Vatutin, a Ukrainian river-sea cruise liner has without warning changed course and is now heading for Russia. An Odessa online publication, Dumskaya, said the liner left Kyiv…
  • Director of Moscow's Ukrainian library given suspended sentence Moscow's Meshchanskiy court has given the former director of the city's Ukrainian Library, Natalya Sharina, a suspended four-year sentence. It found her guilty of extremism and embezzlement…
  • Osmaev's assailant identified as St.Petersburg bandit Dingo A close-to-police media outlet Espresso claims that the man who attempted to kill Adam Osmayev in Kyiv is a St.Petersburg bandit Artur Kurmakaev. Espresso declined to disclose the…
  • Mail.Ru Group shuts Ukrainian business Russian Mail.Ru Group intends to close the representation in Ukraine over imposed sanctions, Mail.Ru Group CEO Boris Dobrodeyev told the Russian edition of Kommersant. "The representation…
  • 2018 FIFA World Cup: Oh, sport! You are… what?
    Aleksandr Zhelenin
    The opponents of the 2018 FIFA World Cup (WFC) in Russia still have a chance to try and move the competition elsewhere or hold a large-scale boycott campaign.
  • SBU raids Yandex.Ukraine offices The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) conducts searches in the Kyiv and Odesa offices of the company Yandex.Ukraine, Yandex spokeswoman Asya Melkumova told AIN.UA. "We do not yet…
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  • Washington Post: US intends to restart talks on Ukraine The administration of the US President Donald Trump plans to get more heavily involved in resolving the crisis in Ukraine, the Washington Post states, Washington Post' Josh Rogin wrote…
  • What stands in the way of Ukraine’s arms exports to Iraq
    Andrey Starostin
    Whereas previously Russian arms exporters resorted to the costly tactic of information war, now this approach is used increasingly more often as the last argument in competition.
  • Ukrainian railways deny plans to cut rail service with Russia Ukrainian national rail operator Ukrzaliznytsya does not plan to stop the railway communication with Russia, UZ press center told Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday. The comment was in response…
  • The blocking of Russian social networks: how this concerns the country's security
    Igor Solovey
    Like in any other war, Ukraine is fully entitled to use "active defence" to counter Russia's hybrid aggression, including by banning access to its propaganda media. Although some fear encroachment on the freedom of speech, others in the West…
  • Pentagon predicts continuation of war in Donbas A recent US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report says that the Minsk agreements will remain unfulfilled until the end of 2018. Non-extensive fighting along the front line in Donbas…
  • Ukraine expelled the Russian political spin master Ihor Shuvalov, who was the head of information policy of the Inter TV channel, and banned him from entering for five years. "Today…
  • Ukraine introduces antidumping duties on Russian chocolates Ukraine has introduced a 31.33-per-cent antidumping duty on the import of some sorts of chocolate and other ready-made cocoa-containing products from Russia. The decision was published…
  • Ukraine-NATO: 20 years of cooperation
    Iurii Mykhailov
    The 20th anniversary of the Ukraine-NATO Charter will be marked this summer. A spokesperson for the NATO Public Diplomacy Division, Carmen Romero, talked to LB.ua about its agenda, Ukraine's progress in defence reform and prospects for Ukraine-NATO…
  • MP: Russian social networks not unlike Mein Kampf MP Anton Herashchenko believes that Russian social networks are a propaganda tool not dissimilar from Hitler's Main Kampf in its time. "Anyone who says that blocking the access to…