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Post by DavidH on Mar 10, 2017 20:35:52 GMT
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Post by DavidH on Mar 10, 2017 22:33:17 GMT
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Post by DavidH on Mar 10, 2017 22:35:23 GMT
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Post by DavidH on Mar 11, 2017 10:19:53 GMT
Ukraine on the night of 11 March stopped water supply to the territory of the Republic [LPR] without warning.
Ukraine promises to eliminate the accident at Western filter station (ZFS) by the evening of 11 March, the water supply will restore to Sunday.
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Post by DavidH on Mar 11, 2017 11:04:35 GMT
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Post by DavidH on Mar 11, 2017 13:27:37 GMT
Belarus: big rally today in Pinsk via @pr0tez
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Post by DavidH on Mar 11, 2017 13:30:37 GMT
Spain ratified, Netherlands soon to followParliament of Netherlands has already approved Montenegro’s membership in NATO, now it is expected that their Senate does the same. The session in the Senate is scheduled for March 21st, it was said to Weekend Edition of Dnevne Novine daily from Netherlands delegation in NATO. Spanish Congress of Deputies ratified Montenegro’s Accession Protocol yesterday. “In order for the ratification process to be finalized, the document must be passed in the Senate. The government sent the draft law to the relevant committees at the end of December 2016,” the government explained. According to the Spanish newspaper ABC, 267 deputies – the representatives of the People’s Party, the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party and citizens’ group – supported Montenegro’s membership in NATO. m.cdm.me/english/spain-ratified-netherlands-soon-to-follow/
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Post by DavidH on Mar 11, 2017 16:16:13 GMT
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Post by DavidH on Mar 12, 2017 10:38:19 GMT
Up to 700 people in Babruisk, in chants now demanding resignation of government and Lukashenko. via @svaboda Up to 500 people protesting in Rahachow, Gomel' region via @pr0tez
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Post by DavidH on Mar 12, 2017 18:13:29 GMT
Belarusian Police Detain More Opposition Leaders, Journalists Amid Latest Tax ProtestsPolice have detained a group of opposition leaders and at least three journalists during the latest in a series of charged protests over a controversial government-backed unemployment tax. The March 12 arrests occurred in the eastern city of Vorsha, during a rally that featured several hundred people chanting antigovernment and anti-tax slogans. Paval Sevyarynets, a well-known opposition figure, was among those detained, as was a reporter with RFE/RL’s Belarusian Service. www.rferl.org/a/belarus-protests-unemployment-tax-arrests/28364889.html
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Post by DavidH on Mar 13, 2017 12:22:45 GMT
"DNR" establishes a "state border" with Ukraine and promises to punish anyone who crosses it illegallyThe head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, signed a decree, which gave the line of contact between the People's Democratic Republic of Ukraine and the territory under the control of Kiev the status of the state border. The text of the decree is published on the website of the Ministry of State Security (MGB) of the republic. According to the text of the decree, the movement of individuals through the contact line is allowed only through the checkpoints of the Border Guard Service of the MGB. www.rbc.ru/politics/13/03/2017/58c672359a7947be7431038b
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Post by DavidH on Mar 13, 2017 12:24:47 GMT
Russia may offer citizenship to Russian-speakers in other parts of ex-USSRIn Russia, a new principle of citizenship can be introduced, based on the "right of the soil," RIA Novosti was told by Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Nationalities Affairs of the State Duma Ruslan Balbek. According to him, this provides for a bill proposed by Konstantin Zatulin and Natalia Poklonskaya. The Committee on Nationalities Affairs has already given its positive opinion. "If this law is adopted, the citizenship of the Russian Federation can be obtained not only on the basis of blood, kinship, but also on the principle of soil.The main criterion will be the knowledge of the Russian language, and also the connection with the territories of the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire, Told RIA Novosti Balbek. ria.ru/society/20170312/1489824113.html
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Post by DavidH on Mar 13, 2017 12:36:47 GMT
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Post by DavidH on Mar 13, 2017 13:52:47 GMT
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Post by DavidH on Mar 13, 2017 16:12:19 GMT
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