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СИМФЕРОПОЛЬ, 26 апр – РИА Новости Крым. Министерство образования и науки Эстонии заявило, что изображение Крымского полуострова территорией РФ в учебнике английского языка является досадным недоразумением и пообещали вклеить в учебники "правильный" вариант. Об этом сообщает портал эстонского телерадиовещания ERR.

В письме, направленном накануне министерством образования и науки Эстонии в адрес местного конгресса украинцев, дано объяснение – каким образом в учебнике для 7 класса Крым обозначен как российская территория, сообщает эстонское телевидение. Ранее конгресс украинцев Эстонии обнаружил в учебнике английского языка карту Европы, на которой полуостров Крым обозначен как российская территория.

СИМФЕРОПОЛЬ, 24 апр – РИА Новости Крым. Окружной административный суд Киева рассматривает законность решения украинского Кабмина о временном закрытии пунктов пропуска на границе с российским Крымом из-за коронавируса. Об этом сообщает портал судебной власти Украины.

Дипломаты заявили, что эти действия не отменят результатов референдума 2014 года, пишет RuBaltic.ru.

Напомним, Конгресс украинцев Эстонии обнаружил в учебнике английского языка для учеников 7-х классов карту, на которой Крым обозначен частью России. Книга была издана в 2018 году, однако информацию об этом в Министерство образования и науки республики передали только на прошлой неделе.

В граничащей с российским Крымом украинской Херсонской области задержана банда настоящих рабовладельцев. Им угрожает тюремное заключение на срок от 5 до 12 лет.

«Конгресс украинцев Эстонии выражает обеспокоенность ситуацией, когда ученикам эстонских школ предоставляется фальшивая информация относительно Украины и игнорируется территориальная целостность украинского государства. Конгресс обращается в Министерство образования с просьбой принять меры по исправлению данной ситуации, а также просит предотвратить повторение подобных случаев. Надеемся, что этот факт является исключительным», — говорится в письме, которое глава конгресса Вира Конык отправила на имя министра образования и науки Майлис Репс.

Министерство образования и науки Эстонии приняло решение отозвать из обращения учебник английского языка, в котором Крым обозначен как часть территории Российской Федерации.

По этому пособию учились три года

Во вторник Вера Конык рассказала, что она сама узнала об этом «инциденте» после жалобы одной представительницы украинской общины Эстонии, сын которой учится по этому учебнику.

СИМФЕРОПОЛЬ, 17 апр - РИА Новости Крым. Никто не имеет отношения к вопросу принадлежности Крыма, кроме самих крымчан. Такое мнение в комментарии РИА Новости Крым высказал известный советский и российский певец, композитор Юрий Лоза в ответ на заявление российского журналиста Василия Уткина  о том, что ему "очень трудно принять" факт вхождения полуострова в состав РФ в 2014 году.

Глава Крыма Сергей Аксенов прокомментировал задержание в Крыму агентов Главного управления разведки Минобороны Украины, которые планировали совершить несколько диверсионно-террористических атак на территории полуострова. По мнению Аксенова, последнее задержание еще раз говорит о профессиональной и кропотливой работе российских спецслужб, которые не оставляют шансов враждебным иностранным государствам дестабилизировать ситуацию в российском Крыму.

ФСБ пресекла в Крыму планы Главного управления разведки Минобороны Украины организовать и совершить несколько диверсионно-террористических актов. Об этом сообщил Центр общественных связей ФСБ.

Я надеюсь, что президент Эрдоган поймёт, что мы — союзник их прошлого и будущего, и им нужно отказаться от С-400, — заявила Хатчисон в ходе брифинга в Госдепартаменте.

A stray polar bear walks on a road on the outskirts of the industrial city of Norilsk, #Russia, in June. The hungry bear was said to be hundreds of miles from its natural habitat. This image is included in TIME's annual selection of the year's Top 100 Photos. See the full list at the link in bio. Photograph by @irina_yarinskaya—Zapolyarnaya Pravda/@afpphoto/@gettyimages

Дональд Трамп в своем Twitter признался в симпатии к россиянам и рассказал, что считает Хиллари Клинтон безумной после ее заявлений о том, что некоторые американские политики связаны с Россией.

Россияне могут попасть на территорию Незалежной, но толькоесли они дружественно настроены по отношению к Украине. Если они поддерживают«страну-агрессора», то есть Россию, им можно даже не пытатьсяприближаться к украинской границе. Об этом заявил назначенный в июне главойГоспогранслужбы Сергей Дейнеко.

В этом году полуостров посетили уже более 260 тысяч граждан соседней страны

СИМФЕРОПОЛЬ, 1 авг — РИА Новости Крым. Рост числа туристов из Украины в Крыму свидетельствует о том, что реализуемая киевскими властями политика разобщения украинцев и россиян не отвечает "глубинным чаяниям" русского и украинского народа. Об этом в эфире радио "Спутник в Крыму" заявил политолог, зампредседателя Экспертно-консультативного совета при главе РК Александр Форманчук.

Более четверти миллиона украинцев отдохнули в Крыму в этом году, посчитали в местном министерстве курортов и туризма. По словам главы ведомства Вадима Волченко, приток путешественников из соседнего государства ощутимый, несмотря на враждебный настрой киевской власти. 

Актёр выложил видеоролик, опубликованный The Guardian, в котором рассказывалось о тушении лесных пожаров в России и других странах.

Киеву необходимо выйти с инициативой о создании международной переговорной площадки для обсуждения шагов по возвращению российского Крыма в состав Украины. Об этом заявил свежеиспеченный постпред президента страны по региону Антон Кориневич. На эту виртуальную должность Владимир Зеленский назначил 33-летнего кандидата юридических наук 25 июня.

«When [Russian] parent companies withdraw part of their net profit, they do not confront with our agreements with Russian businesses, Belarusian and international laws. However, it would be desirable of profit made here is directed in the first place at the development of production and capacity, which create this profit. Re-investment should be taking place in the first place,» Myasnikovich said. Talking about the Belarus-Russia relations, he stressed that there is no need to revise the agreement on the union state of Belarus and Russia. In the view of Myasnikovich, the Belarusian and Russian working groups that have been negotiating those matters could have all the issues finalized by 8 December. There is no need to introduce a single currency either because there are no equal conditions for economic entities and no unified legislation. «It will simply make no sense. It could even be harmful,» Myasnikovich said.

Belarus jumped impressive 14 places to be named the 72nd most innovative country. The Global Innovation Index 2019 released on Wednesday says that despite signs of slowing economic growth, innovation continues to blossom. Switzerland was named the most innovative country in the world, a position it has held since 2011, followed by Sweden, the U.S., the Netherlands, and the U.K., Finland, Denmark, Singapore.

Жители страны-соседки злорадствуют по поводу и без. Однако за пять лет ничего нового они не придумали. По-прежнему объектом их нападок выступает Крым.

СИМФЕРОПОЛЬ, 24 июл – РИА Новости Крым. 21 июля на Украине состоялись внеочередные выборы в парламент страны. Борьбу за 424 депутатских мандата вели почти шесть тысяч кандидатов. В этом перечне фигурируют и уроженцы Крыма, которые какое-то время жили и работали на полуострове, а также те, кто волею судеб так или иначе был связан с этим регионом, занимая здесь различные государственные должности. В основном это политики и общественники, которые не приняли результаты мартовского референдума 2014 года и воссоединения Крыма с Россией, выехали на Украину и заняли жесткую русофобскую позицию. 

Мнение киевских политиков о Крымском полуострове, который не принадлежит Украине, никого не интересует, сказал "РГ" депутат Госдумы РФ от Севастополя Дмитрий Белик.

Независимый немецкий журналист Макс ван дер Верфф в течение пяти лет вел собственное расследование о крушении "Боинга" на Украине. В своем документальном фильме он по сути опровергает выводы международного следствия о причастности РФ к трагедии. При этом он раскрыл некоторые, действительно сенсационные подробности – после крушения самолета блок НАТО намеревался отправить на юго-восток Украины тысячи военных. Однако против этого решения выступила Германия.

According to the Russian media Kommersant, it was known about the pollution of Russian oil by organochlorine in Druzhba pipeline two weeks before Belneftekhim filed the relevant complaint. According to the publication, the Volgograd oil refinery of Lukoil recorded harmful impurities on April 4. This lasted until April 12. There was an appeal to the enterprise Transneft-Privolga in this case. Both Transneft and Lukoil acknowledged that there had been such a problem, but it was not related to the subsequent problems at the Druzhba pipeline. How organochlorine compounds could have got into oil was not explained. A Kommersant source claims that it's standard practice to supply oil to refineries with a slight excess of organochlorine content. On April 19, the Belarusian side reported that the Druzhba pipeline had poor quality oil (the content of organochlorine was many times higher than the permissible norm). The transit of oil to Europe via Belarus was stopped. Interestingly, Russia considered that oil was polluted on purpose (according to the investigation, it was done to conceal the theft) and initiated a criminal case. Due to the fact that the polluted oil spoils the process equipment at the refineries, Belarusians are waiting for compensation, but the exact amount of losses is still unknown.

And a 39-year-old former collective farm director with a deep, nasal voice and a knack for populist pronouncements won the first — and so far only — democratic presidential election in Belarus. Alyaksandr Lukashenka was sworn in on July 20, 1994, beginning the first of five presidential terms — and counting. Europe and the world have undergone startling transformations over the last quarter-century but the presence of Lukashenka has been a constant. Or has it? The wily leader of this resource-poor nation of 10 million bordering Russia, Ukraine, and three European Union and NATO countries has proven endlessly flexible in his constancy, turning his country into a textbook example of adaptive authoritarianism. To the surprise of most observers, the political neophyte Lukashenka proved from the beginning to be an adroit politician with formidable instincts. At a turbulent time he tapped a vein of conservatism in Belarus, whose citizens overwhelmingly voted against the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1991 referendum and have often sought stability but had to settle for stagnation. He moved quickly to lay the foundations of the authoritarian system that has become entrenched under his rule by holding a constitutional referendum in 1996 that extended his term to 2001, gave his decrees the force of law, and gave him virtually complete control over the state budget. With these powers, he quickly established personal control over all key institutions — the judiciary, election commissions, unions, law enforcement and security agencies, all major media, and so on.

Жителям российского Крыма шенгенские визы не положены, если крымчане хотят выехать без визы в страны Шенгенского пространства, то они должны предъявить украинские паспорта, заявил посол Евросоюза в России Маркус Эдедер.

«For objective reasons, i.e. contaminated oil, we had to use oil that we extract locally to keep our refineries running. Disrupted supplies of Russian oil have affected our export statistics this year — minus $800 million against last year. Obviously, it was very difficult to cover this gap at the cost of other sectors,» the minister admitted. Euroradio reported earlier that on 19 April Belnaftakhim detected sudden deterioration of Russian crude oil's quality in the Druzhba pipeline. Both Belarusian refineries — in Mazyr and Navapolack — had to reduce their load and suffered losses. Several other countries served by the Druzhba pipeline — Poland, Germany and Ukraine — would refuse from contaminated Russian oil. Clean oil reached the border of Belarus via the Druzhba pipeline on 2 June only.

«Today we have a program. This is more or less a strategic document. And today we have a big volume or, to put it in plain language, a heap of current problems. The Group and the governments see these problems. And we have developed a program, which, according to government estimates, has been agreed upon by 80-90%,» says Alyaksandr Lukashenka. What are these contentious issues or «current problems»? In fact, there are quite a few of them. If we talk about the main issues, it is compensation for the Russian tax maneuver, determination of the gas price for Belarus for the next year, payment of long promised Russian loans. All these «controversial issues» from Moscow, from the representatives of the Russian government, were answered by the following: «First, integration, then...». It seemed that after the talks between the leaders of Belarus and Russia in St. Petersburg, the question of what would come «first» was removed from the agenda, but... The Forum of Regions ended, and the leaders went home, but «current problems» reminded of themselves. «Tax maneuver is a sovereign right of Russia, so it's unlikely to be correct to talk about any „compensation“ for Minsk, we may talk about possible assistance to Belarus in mitigating the consequences of its introduction,» said Deputy Foreign Minister Grigori Karasin to RIA Novosti on July 19. According to Associate Professor of Political Science at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Kirill Koktysh, such a development of events was to be expected. After all, Russia's goal today is to limit any financial support to Belarus. «It will be very profitable for Russia today to reduce the amount of money, which it used to give to Belarus, retaining the existing status of relations. The tactics is simple: pay a little less for the existing union. From Moscow, it sounds like: „First integration, then negotiations on gas prices. The same applies to Russian loans or compensation for tax maneuver. Minsk says that this is unacceptable for Belarus. In Moscow, they rub their hands: “Well, then, no loans and compensation, and pay as much for gas as we tell you! If nothing is done, if there are no counter-proposals and initiatives from Minsk, the Russian government will be able to implement this game. After all, when you remain just an object, you do not offer anything, you do not make any moves in response and just say „this can't be right, it's wrong,“ it won't work, because everyone will play in their favor,...

«Today there are no obstacles to closer dialogue not only on economic but also political matters. Belarus is ready for this. Let us move forward in this direction, without waiting for any kind of event: be it parliamentary or presidential elections. I think our relations are more important than any political campaigns in Belarus or in your countries,” Lukashenka said. The head of state highlighted Andrea Wiktorin's great contribution to the development of relations between Belarus and the European Union. He also expressed gratitude for the financial support that the EU provides to the projects in Belarus, including those to develop infrastructure. Andrea Wiktorin, on her part, said that over the past few years Belarus and the European Union have been able to build a relationship of trust. “We engage in an open dialogue on political themes, economic issues and also on specific, individual matters such as trade, customs, and so on,” she said. Andrea Wiktorin, the current head of the EU Delegation to Belarus, has been nominated as head of the EU Delegation to Armenia. The designated new Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Belarus is German diplomat Dirk Schuebel who currently heads the EEAS Russia Division.

Группа энтомологов из Службы сельскохозяйственных исследований Министерства сельского хозяйства США и Массачусетского университета рассказала о первых результатах использования наездника Spathius galinae, который откладывает яйца в живущих под корой деревьев личинок жука — ясеневой изумрудной узкотелой златки (Agrilus planipennis), признанной особо опасным вредителем лесного хозяйства.

He also said that last year the trade turnover between the countries increased by 9.4%, mainly due to supplies from Russia. This year's trade volumes are slightly below last year's levels. Syamashka believes it will be good if we manage to exceed last year's level. Elaborating on the discrimination of Belarusian products in the Russian market, he mentioned that last year the supply of milk from Belarus to Russia decreased, and this year this situation is still the same. The Russian market is fully or partially closed for 62 Belarusian dairy companies today. About 40 meat processing plants and eight fish processing plants found themselves in the same conditions. «It's nonsense, it shouldn't be like this. Our products are normal and have an appropriate and well-deserved reputation in the Russian market,» the diplomat said, outraged. There are also problems with the supply of Belarusian equipment to Russia. For example, exports of Gomselmash have decreased by 40%. «It is a totally competitive product, but there are barriers,» stated Syamashka.

With public support for President Vladimir Putin wilting, the Kremlin is considering changing election rules in an effort to secure its lock on parliament ahead of potentially vital decisions that could extend his rule. Putin faces the end of what under the constitution must be his final presidential term in 2024. Though he’s given no public hint of his intentions, aides and advisers are working on ways to allow him to prolong his rule, already the longest since Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, according to people involved in the efforts. Maintaining the ruling United Russia party’s two-thirds majority in parliament — necessary for making constitutional changes — could be essential to that. But with less than 18 months to go before the parliamentary vote, United Russia’s popularity has dropped along with Putin’s after five straight years of falling consumer incomes. Amid poll ratings at a 13-year low, the party’s candidates have lost several recent regional elections, despite the Kremlin’s monopoly control of the system. “Today, all the actions and initiatives of United Russia have only one result — an increase in the protest mood in the country,” the Moskovsky Komsomolets daily wrote this week. “In the regions, people avoid it like the plague.” Calling the party “toxic,” the usually pro-Kremlin paper appealed for it to disband.

Украина признала, что в день проведения выборов Верховной Рады не наблюдается увеличения потока выезжающих из российского Крыма на материк.

Лидер политической партии "Голос" Святослав Вакарчук, партия которого по данным экзитполов преодолевает отметку в 5% на выборах в Верховную Раду, заявил, что продолжит выступать с рок-группой "Океан Эльзы". Об этом он сказал на брифинге в штабе партии "Голос", передает "Интерфакс-Украина".

Офис президента Украины Владимира Зеленского будет поддерживать меджлисовские СМИ, в частности телеканал ATR и другие пропагандистские ресурсы, работающие против российского Крыма.

“Our Union Treaty will turn 20 this December. I believe we can’t leave any unsolved issue beyond that date. We are pressed for time. What shall we say when we celebrate the anniversary? There will be nothing for us to say if we fail to resolve all the remaining issues and don’t sign the program shaping the strategy of our joint actions,” President Lukashenko said in St. Petersburg on 18 July. “Therefore, I suggest we sort out all issues before that date within the Supreme State Council and adopt a program that will define our action strategy and resolve current problems,” he added. The Belarusian leader also pointed out that people of both countries had long been looking forward to the presidents to make specific decisions.

‘The tax maneuver’ is “Russia’s sovereign right so it is not right to discuss any ‘compensation’”, Russian deputy Foreign Minister Yegor Karasin told ria.ru. It is only possible to talk about ‘some facilitation of the consequences for Belarus’, he noted. This issue is being worked on and the decision will be ‘complex’, Karasin said. All attempts to assess the situation are untimely, he thinks. A compensation for the tax maneuver may only be given to Belarus after ‘the joint approach to integration is defined’, Russian senior vice PM and Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov said earlier. Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Vladimir Putin have recently met in Saint Petersburg and agreed to decide all points in Belarus-Russia relations by the end of 2019.

Посольство России в Лондоне опубликовало в Twitter карту, на котором полуостров Крым обозначен как территория Украины. В твите приводится цитата министра иностранных дел РФ Сергея Лаврова: "Под давлением Вашингтона, который преследует свои геополитические цели, страны НАТО проводят агрессивную антироссийскую политику. В 2018 году США потратили на это более 700 миллиардов долларов, в общей сложности НАТО - около 1 триллиона долларов, а расходы России, напротив, составили менее 50 миллиардов долларов".

Националисты «великой» Незалежной взбешены пропуском российской телеведущей Даны Борисовой в Киев, несмотря на ее визиты в Крым в 2014 году.

The letter says that as a result of the bad quality oil getting into the Belarusian main pipeline system, the transportation of raw materials to Adamava and Brody was suspended. So far, the transportation in the direction of Adamava has been carried out partially. Due to such force majeure, the Belarusian company lost $23.7 million. The losses were calculated taking into account additional revenues from oil transportation in the reverse direction. Consequently, the volumes of transportation decreased and the level of current tariffs does not allow to cover operational costs linked to the maintenance of the main oil pipeline facilities, as well as the implementation of the technical re-equipment program in 2019. The Russian Transneft has not yet commented on the proposals of the Belarusian side. In April, the Russian oil polluted with chlorides entered the pipeline system in Belarus. In this regard, the transit of raw materials to Europe was stopped on April 24. Supplies of clean oil later resumed, but Belarus still has to clear its pipeline system of substandard oil and this process will only end in mid-August. The annual volume of Russian oil transit through Belarus is about 50 million tons. The proposal to raise tariffs was made in mid-April, and Minsk explained it by the need to preserve the environmental safety of pipelines. However, Russia did not support this proposal, citing its lack of justification. Then the issue of tariff increase was overshadowed after the polluted oil incident.

Lukashenko likely thought hosting the games would be an opportunity to rally Belarusians around his leadership. Instead, his country is feeling increasingly anxious amid mounting tensions with Russia. Russian president Vladimir Putin's attendance for the closing ceremony on June 30 didn't calm the situation. Ever since winning the presidential election in 1994, Lukashenko has ruled the country with an iron fist, obsessed with staying in power. He disappeared several opponents and critics in the late 1990s. In 2006, he resorted to fraud to secure victory in the presidential election and cracked down violently against his opponents. The United States and European Union in turn slapped sanctions on him and his regime. After Lukashenko released all the political prisoners in 2008, the West eased sanctions; they reimposed sanctions after another bad election and crackdown in 2010. They lifted them almost entirely after the 2015 elections, which did not see a repeat of the crackdown in previous elections; this easing of sanctions also came against the backdrop of Putin's illegal annexation of Crimea and invasion of Ukraine. Before Putin, the doddering Boris Yeltsin was Lukashenko's Russian counterpart, and Lukashenko was convinced he could outmanoeuvre Yeltsin. Lukashenko thought a union treaty between Minsk and Moscow signed in December 1999 would be the path for him to run the two countries together. Lukashenko's plans were scuttled, however, when Putin replaced Yeltsin as Russian president. In Putin, Lukashenko found himself with a new Russian leader who had no intention of serving as second fiddle. Putin steadily pursued a more assertive policy toward Russia's neighbours, including invasions of Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014. Pressure on Belarus grew as well, as Putin reduced oil subsidies and other financial support to Belarus. He convinced Lukashenko to join various regional entities — the Collective Security Treaty Organization and Eurasian Economic Union – as part of an effort to establish a Russian sphere of influence. Putin also wants to set up a military base in Belarus, which would take to another level the increasing integration of Belarusian and Russian military and security forces. The recent report of the International Strategic Action Network for Security clearly demonstrates Putin's «creeping assault on the sovereignty of Belarus.» More recently, the Russia-Belarus union, dating back to 1999, is back in fashion, because formalising suc...

The reasons are low birth rates and migration in Europe. In this regard, the IMF recommends demographic reforms, including some for Belarus. The experts claim that the reduction of the population entails three negative consequences. First, it will have a negative impact on economic growth, living standards and financial stability. Secondly, as the population ages, the pressure on health care and pension systems will increase. Third, the ageing of the population will affect the economic productivity. For each country, the IMF experts propose their own measures. In particular, it is recommended to raise the retirement age for Belarus. «Pension age reform is likely to be required in most countries of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, but it will be especially expedient in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine — both in terms of the number of labor force and financial stability,» the report says. In addition, the IMF experts recommend that Belarusian authorities pay attention to the employment of women, as well as of people over 55 years of age. The latter measure, according to experts, could be very effective: «Belarus would get a great benefit if it would increase the employment of older people even without raising the retirement age. Back in 2016, the IMF strongly recommended that Belarusian authorities continue pension reforms in order to close the pension gap after 2022. The experts of the Fund advised to raise the pension plan for both men and women under 65 years old.

In simple terms, they are checking whether the apples that soon might be labelled ‘made in Belarus’ do grow in the country. In April, Rosselkhoznadzor, the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision, imposed temporary restrictions on the imports of apples and pears from Belarus claiming that it makes deliveries of sanctioned food of EU origin to Russia. Rosselkhoznadzor stressed the agency did not receive reliable information about the volume of imports and the volume of goods that passed through the procedure of customs clearance in our country. This leads to falsification of the goods’ true country of origin, the Russian side added. Over the past two days, Rosselkhoznadzor experts have made a number of visits to Belarusian gardens. According to the watchdog, they are estimating the production capacity of farms in Brest, Vitsebsk and Hrodna. They came to Belarus at the invitation of Alyaksandr Piskun, Director of the Main State Inspectorate on Seed-growing, Quarantine and Plant Protection. In May, Rosselkhoznadzor said they had no intention to lift the ban. In late June, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a decree extending ‘specific economic measures against countries that imposed sanctions against Russia until December 31, 2020. Since August 2015, Russia has destroyed about thousands of tons of food from countries that were put under the Russian food embargo. Most of these products made it into Russia through Belarus. Belarusian companies gained notoriety for purchasing food products ‘made in the EU’, ‘editing’ some inscription on their packages and then delivering them to Russia which took retaliation measures against the bloc for its sanctions list and support of Ukraine.

Belarus is negotiating with Russia about the compensation for the oil tax maneuver. Both sides have reached understanding in the issue but Russians are saying that final decisions can be made only after the integration becomes deeper, the diplomat said.«I believe that these things should not be bound. The impending issues need to be solved. They should have been solved long ago – on January 31, 2019,” Syamashka announced. Belarus and Russia are supposed to sign a visa agreement by the end of the year, the diplomat added. Both states have finished domestic procedures needed to approve the documents and are waiting for a good political moment, he said.

Певица Лайма Вайкуле, бойкотирующая Крым, решила поддержать грузинскую певицу Нино Катамадзе после ее резких высказываний о России и отказа выступать там.

The British magazine points out that Svetlana Alexievich who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2015 is the first non-fiction writer to do so. It also underlines the fact that soon after the winning her works have been freshly translated into English. “Alexievich’s interviews with Russian soldiers in Afghanistan, Chernobyl survivors, people who were children in the war with Germany and many others produce moving accounts of suffering in the Soviet world. Her technique of collating highly-edited transcripts with little or no context has been criticised as being more myth-making than accurate history. But there’s no denying the courage and artistry of a writer who counts Vladimir Putin among her opponents,” a brief description of the Belarusian writer reads. Recall that Alexievich was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature hugely admired Second-Hand Time that was described as “a monument to suffering and courage in our time”. It has been half a century since a writer working primarily in non-fiction won the Nobel – Svetlana Alexievich is the first journalist and writer from Belarus to win the award.

В четверг, 18 июля, на Крымском мосту завершили укладывать рельсы. Об этом пишет "Интерфакс". 

Currently, the statements of the Belarusian side on diversification of oil supplies is an attempt to blackmail Russia. In reality, the Lukashenka team do not take any measures aimed to diversify oil supplies. It is highly unlikely that in response to increasing US military contingent in Poland Lukashenka would agree to deploy Russian military contingent or Russian military bases. Lukashenka will bid for the presidency at the presidential elections that are to take place in 2020, after the parliamentary elections. In the next presidential term, he will be thinking of a successor. Lukashenka speaks of a new Constitution, meaning the forthcoming hand over of the authority to a successor. Despite the growing disagreements in the issues of the integration within the union state, the Kremlin and Lukashenka will not announce the end to the project. On December 13, 2018, the Vice Premier of Russia Dmitriy Medvedev claimed: “Russia is ready to keep moving on the way of building up the union state, including the creation of the single currency emission centre, the unified customs, courts, auditing chamber.” Since then, practically every month the sides have been exchanging statements of strongly different variants of developments in the relations within the union state. The Russian side suggests discussing its initiatives on deepening integration. On December 14, Lukashenka claimed: “If someone wants to pop us into Russia – that will never happen… Under the pretext of the deep integration, Moscow wants to incorporate Belarus into Russia. I understand these hints: get the oil, but go ahead, ruin the state and enter Russia.” Lukashenka claimed that it is through Russia’s fault the union state has not yet been created. The union implies equal rights, equal conditions for economic subjects. And these conditions are getting more and more uneven. According to Lukashenka, currently, the Belarusian enterprises pay 200 USD for a thousand cubic metres of gas, whereas Russian enterprises pay 60 USD. Commenting on the statements from Medvedev regarding the unified emission centre and unified customs, Lukashenka claimed that Russia offered “to create the union from the roof, and not from the basement”. Such basement, in his opinion, is the creation of equal conditions for economy subjects, i.e. supplies of oil and gas at home Russian prices and absence of barriers for Belarusian exports to Russia. The problem is not about the logic or sequence of integration (basement-roof),...

«We planned to get another loan from Russia, but we postponed the issue, since we have found an alternative with our Chinese partners,» Byalkavets said on July 9. Byalkavets's statement came weeks after Finance Minister Maksim Yermalovich said that his country had been seeking to borrow money from a country other than Russia due to mounting differences in bilateral relations.

213,000 tickets sold! Ticket sales reached 213,000, the official said in a recent interview. Of them, 12,700 were purchased by foreigners, according to the official. “Other 7,000 were invited by various public organizations to participate in the Games. This makes 20,000 visitors. Plus, 15,000 ticket packages were sold by travel companies.” The total official number of guests from other countries is 35,000, Kovalchuk said. “Not to mention the guests who came on their own,” the official added. 2nd European Games took place in Minsk on 21-30 June 2019. The Games were named one of the biggest sports events of the summer with 50 participating countries, 15 sports, and over 4,000 athletes. The leader of the medal count was the Russian team with 109 medals. 221 Belarusian athletes won 69 medals, including 24 gold ones.

Support for agriculture is a key task. “We are determined to keep agriculture support at the same level, maybe even expand it a bit,” Aleksandr Turchin said. He added there is still space for concessions in the talks, whereas Belarus is aware of the lines it can’t cross. Belarus is ready for a compromise, but without compromising its own interests, First Vice Prime Minister stressed. Turchin said that Russian and the USA have the most rigid stance in the talks, but it helps Belarus have a new angle on many issues. “We’ve achieved significant progress in a short time,” the official said. According to him, Belarus has a good chance to finish all the formalities by the Twelfth Ministerial Conference in June 2020 in Kazakhstan. The final draft of the agreement should be ready by 2019 year-end or early 2020.