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Afghanistan: Ceasefire Violations Reported on 2nd Day of Truce
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Ukraine prepares to shuffle its governmental portfolios
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[Korrespondent] The ministers of economy, infrastructure and health are leaving, and the Rada will appoint their replacements next week.

Serious changes are being prepared in the Ukrainian government. The Verkhovna Rada next week will consider the replacement of three ministers at once - economy, infrastructure and health.

Also, the deputies say that there are claims against the Minister of Justice Denis Malyuska and the Minister of Finance Sergei Marchenko.

Correspondent. net was looking into upcoming staffing rotations.

Stepanov - on the way out
The resignation of the Minister of Health, Maxim Stepanov, has been awaiting for a long time. The deputies even collected signatures for this. The main complaint against the minister is the failure of vaccination, which is proceeding at a very slow pace in the country.

Stepanov himself, in his own defense, says that there is a war for vaccines all over the world and all countries are experiencing a shortage.

But now the prime minister has submitted to the Rada a proposal for the minister's resignation. Most likely, Stepanov will be replaced by the current Deputy Minister Viktor Lyashko.
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Posted by: badanov || 05/15/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wouldn't buy a used car from any of them.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/15/2021 14:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Wonder which ministry Hunter Biden ends up head of.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/15/2021 15:06 Comments || Top||

#3  ^No way, that's work.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/15/2021 15:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Wonder which ministry Hunter Biden ends up head of.
the equivalent of the Food and Drug Administration of course.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/15/2021 15:13 Comments || Top||


Mishustin approves a list of unfriendly countries
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[REGNUM] The list of unfriendly foreign states includes the United States of America and the Czech Republic. The corresponding order was approved by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin .

The text of the document was published on the official portal of legal information.

The list consists of two states - the United States and the Czech Republic. These countries, as noted, commit unfriendly actions towards Russia and Russian organizations.

According to the document, the Czech diplomatic mission in the Russian Federation will not be able to hire more than 19 Russian citizens. With regard to the United States, the conditions are even more stringent. They are completely prohibited from hiring citizens of the Russian Federation in the diplomatic mission.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree "On the application of measures of influence (counteraction) on unfriendly actions of foreign states."

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Holocaust historian killed in Ukraine
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[REGNUM] In Nikolaev, the body of a local lore scientist, candidate of historical sciences Vladimir Shchukin was found . On May 14, the Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language Taras Kremen wrote about this on his page on the social network Facebook.

“Unknown malefactors interrupted the life of a talented teacher, brilliant historian, gifted researcher Vladimir Shchukin. Rest with God, teacher ... "- it was said in the message.

The police said that the body of a 67-year-old man with knife wounds and head injuries was found by neighbors on the doorstep of the victim's apartment.

The victim reportedly specialized in Holocaust studies.

“In 2018, in Nikolaev, the scientific supervisor of Shchukin's dissertation, historian Nikolai Shityuk, was killed. Volodymyr Shchukin is the co-author of the book about the Righteous Among the Worlds of Nikolaev and was killed on the day of remembrance of the Righteous of the World, ”commented the head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee Eduard Dolinsky on his Facebook page.

As reported by IA REGNUM , earlier the writer Jonathan Lytell decided not to publish a novel about the Holocaust in Ukraine, as the Ukrainian publishing house tried to impose on him an “afterword” to the novel with a “pro-Ukrainian” point of view on this event.


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#1  No surprise, given the Ukrainians' checkered past in helping the Nazis (if not repulsing them with even more sicko acts).
Posted by: Clem || 05/15/2021 0:06 Comments || Top||

#2  By the time the Nazis came along, the Soviets had already forced about 3.5 million Ukrainians to starve to death in the Holodomor. One can understand the Ukrainians seeing the Nazis as the lesser immediate evil.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/15/2021 0:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Ukrainians like killing Russians, Poles, and Jews. Jews are just the easiest.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/15/2021 3:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Which is why I won't weep for them when the Vlad rolls in.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/15/2021 9:06 Comments || Top||

#5  ^Apparently, he doesn't want them - for Russian Autocrat, Vlad is Mr. Pragmatic.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/15/2021 9:59 Comments || Top||


Armenia to join Russian mutual defense pact
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[REGNUM] Armenia has officially applied to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in connection with the violations committed by Azerbaijan on the border in the Syunik region (Armenia), the press service of the Armenian Defense Ministry reported on May 14.

About this and.about. Armenian Defense Minister Vagharshak Harutyunyan informed CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas during telephone conversations.

Read also: The heads of the Russian and Armenian defense ministries discussed the situation on the border with Azerbaijan

As reported IA REGNUM informs , previously Harutyunyan held a consultation on the phone with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and personally met in Yerevan with the commander of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces Alexander Dvornikov.
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#1  Good. Armenia needs some help.
Posted by: 3dc || 05/15/2021 3:02 Comments || Top||



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