Day: February 26, 2017

At the Donetsk filter station, damaged in the shelling, be admitted, Ukrainian repair teams. As reported by the source of “Interfax”, an agreement was reached during the OSCE initiated a video conference of the Trilateral contact group on settling the situation in Eastern Ukraine. “From the constructive moments that, sort of, sort of agreed to allow the Ukrainian maintenance crews at the Donetsk filter station. But when it happens is still unknown,” — said the Agency interlocutor. He added that during the teleconference, is “very sharp questions were asked” about the inadmissibility of damages and attacks on vital infrastructure. In the night of Saturday, February 25, the Ukrainian fighters of radical nationalist divisions seized the Donetsk filter station (DFS). From the occupied territory, as stated in Donetsk, they are firing on positions of the militia of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people’s Republic, as well as the residential areas Yasinovataya and the

The Embassy of Russia in Ankara on Saturday, February 25, a protest was held, timed to the third anniversary of the annexation of Crimea, Anadolu Agency reports. The rally was organized by the Association of NGOs of Crimean Tatars. The action was attended by dozens of ethnic Tatars living in various regions of Turkey. Protesters laid to the building of the diplomatic mission a black wreath in protest against the policy of Russia towards Ukraine. February 8, Crimean Tatar public organization “kyrym birligi” called on the UN to recognize the occurrence of the Peninsula in structure of Russia the relevant rules of international law and to abolish imposed by the West anti-Russian sanctions. The leader of the movement Remzi Ilyasov announced he was ready to speak to the UN a report on the life of their compatriots in the Russian Crimea. According to him, the Crimean Tatar people portray opponents

Vitaly Smirnov The head of the independent public anti-doping Commission of the Olympic Committee of Russia, honorary President of the ROC Vitaly Smirnov in the First channel, commented on the announcement by the world anti-doping Agency (WADA) that the report of Richard McLaren is not enough evidence about the involvement of the Russians to doping violations. According to him, “this is a very real step, which suggests that the international Olympic Committee (IOC) is aware that it is not so clear and naked to admit all the allegations contained in the report, of course, impossible”. “Even the same McLaren changed his point of view. He made the accusation that was a state system of organization of doping and so on. It was a recognition on his part that he made the allegations unsubstantiated,” said Smirnov. Earlier statement, WADA assessed the head Minproma Pavel Kolobkov and the official representative of Russian