Tag: санкции

During today's press conference at the Government, when asked by the journalists about the current development of the events regarding the Racket case, the Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said that he didn't want to comment in details about the case as an investigation was opened against a high ranking officer but he explained that there will be sanctions. Zaev...

ARM has revoked "certain authorization" from the two of its members suspected of spreading fake news, discovered by Belgian investigative journalist Maarten Schenk. Against the two, who are a Major-Officer for security and a professional soldier, the ARM has announced other sanctions after the formal completion of the disciplinary procedure. "One member was withdrawn from a mission in Bosnia and...

DOM has expressed deep concern over announcements made by the EU and the US that they will sanction Macedonia by subtracting the recommendation for EU membership and stop financial assistance through the European Fund and the World Bank as well as other penalties. "Not only does it not lead to any resolution of the political crisis, but it will mean...

Moscow will "appropriately" react to the new EU sanctions imposed due to the Ukrainian crisis, said the Russian Foreign Ministry, adding that such measures won’t contribute to resolving the conflict in Ukraine. The announcement of the Russian Foreign Ministry reads that Moscow is surprised and confused by the introduction of new sanctions and that they are contrary to common sense. EU...

Last night, at an extraordinary meeting of heads of diplomacies of 28 member states, European Union decided to continue the sanctions on Russia until September, announced EU High Representative Federica Mogherini. Serious debate among most member states and the minority led by Greece, which opposed their continuance, preceded the voting for the continuation of sanctions, which were projected to end...

Heads of state and the governments of the 27 EU Member States today announced tightening of sanctions if Russia doesn’t condemn the actions of pro-Russian forces and begin to implement the agreement of Minsk. "We have evidence of continuous and increasingly intense Russian support of separatists, which emphasizes the responsibility of Russia," reads the joint statement, which condemned artillery attacks...

 Russia assessed US sanctions as useless and adds that it will respond to the measures, but didn’t specify how. In today’s press release, Moscow says it will wait as long as it takes US to recognize the historical right to the Crimea peninsula, which this year was separated from Ukraine and annexed to Russia. Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs today expressed...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned Russians that hard times are at hand and asked for a bigger support from the people. Addressing both houses of the Kremlin, Putin accused the West of trying to set up a new Iron Curtain around Russia. Russia suffered a strong economic blow because of falling oil prices and sanctions imposed by the West because...