Denis Pushilin: Any armed peace-support mission is unacceptable for us

Denis Pushilin, Permanent Representative of the DPR to the Contact group in Minsk, commented on the possibility of participation in the conflict settlement in the Donbass of an armed peace-support mission, the correspondent of the DPR official website informs."Certainly, our position remains unchanged: for us, any armed peacekeeping mission, whose actions can be traced through Yugoslavia, Rwanda and other conflicts, where the civilian
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#Commentary of Miroslav Rudenko on more cynical attempts to stop using Russian language in Ukraine

Not so long ago, the network started to actively disseminate information about the banner, on which Ukrainian advertising experts compared Russian language with an infection that infects the central nervous system. It later transpired that the ‘masterpiece’ was drawn for one of the exhibitions in 2015. Notably, the authors made a mass of punctuation and spelling mistakes in this ‘installation’ in their mother tongue.Why does the Russian
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#Commentary of Valery Skorokhodov on how West politicizes sports

A new portion of documents proving the hypocrisy and political bias of the leadership of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has been published. This time, the mail of the International Association of Athletics Federations staff (IAAF) was hacked.The published letters contain information about the use of illegal drugs by a four-time Olympic champion from the United Kingdom, 'treatment' with similar drugs of a female American runner, and about
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#Commentary of Vladislav Berdichevsky on Ukraine’s reaction to opening of DPR representation offices in foreign countries

A representative centre of the DPR has been recently opened in Marseilles. In response to the hysteria of Ukrainian media and politicians, the French embassy in Kiev responded with a wording, which, to put it lightly, discouraged the Ukrainian freedom fighters not only on their territory.Despite the reservation that the DPR representation office is not ‘official’ (on the French side), the French embassy in Kyiv emphasizes that “the Public
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#Commentary of Elena Melnik on growing ecological danger in Ukraine

The actions of the Kiev regime led to the deterioration of the environmental situation in Ukraine. This is evidenced by the data released at the briefing by the Ukrainian Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Ostap Semerak. According to him, the volume of emissions of hazardous substances is growing. In 2015, the volume of emissions amounted to 2.857 million tons, and in 2016 – 3.078 million tons.Besides, the Ukrainian minister informed
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#Commentary of Vladislav Berdichevsky on Ukraine’s preparations for imposition of martial law

The sabotage by Ukraine of any process aimed at the peaceful resolution of the conflict in Donbass continues. When Ukraine runs out of coherent arguments, it is disdain to use unsubstantiated inadequate criticism against all in its rhetoric. This is exactly what happened at the meeting of the Contact Group in Minsk on July 5 2017.The Ukrainian side does not consider it necessary to take into account not only information from the representatives
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Denis Pushilin: Representatives of DPR in Sub-Group on Humanitarian Affairs did leave today’s meeting

The Chairman of the DPR People’s Council, the permanent plenipotentiary representative of the DPR in the Contact group at negotiations in Minsk Denis Pushilin commented on the situation with the incident, which occurred at the Minsk negotiations on July 5 2017.ʺThe meeting of the Contact Group took place as usual: all the issues on the agenda were discussed. And with regard to the meeting of the Sub-group on Humanitarian Affairs, there was an
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DPR representatives to Contact group outraged by Ukrainian party’s stance on exchanging prisoners’ process

On July 5, in Minsk, a regular meeting of the Contact group on the peaceful settlement of the conflict in the Donbass was held. The agenda included issues related to the observance of the "silence regime", the implementation of the agreement on the forces and facilities disengagement in the third pilot place, as well as the preparation for the exchange of prisoners. As the source at the peace talks reports from Minsk, the permanent
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#Commentary of Ekaterina Martyanova on published information about how old Ukrainian fleet is

On July 2, the Ukrainian Navy solemnly celebrated a professional holiday. This significant day couldn't do without loud discoveries and far-reaching promises. Mr. Paruby stated about the rich history of the Ukrainian fleet numbering a thousand years.He also expressed unshakable confidence that the day will come when the valiant Ukrainian sailors will "conquer" the Crimea from the Russian Federation. We only need to give Ukraine the submarines -
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#Commentary of Alexander Kostenko on initiative of Prosecutor-General’s Office of Ukraine to lift immunity of six deputies of Verkhovna Rada

The Ukrainian policies have once again been placed under the control of the Prosecutor-General’s Office. This time, the PGO produced evidence to convince the Parliament to lift the parliamentary immunity of six ‘people’s representatives’.Whether the statement of the Public Prosecutor's Office on the lifting the immunity of the designated deputies would be satisfied – it makes no difference. In any case, this incident demonstrates the true face
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