The sanctions imposed by the European Union against Russia due to the annexation of the Crimea in 2014 have been extended to 23 June 2019. European companies are not allowed to import or invest products from the Crimea. The export of certain goods and technologies is prohibited, as is the provision of tourist services. For example, European cruise ships may only berth in case of emergency.
Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the possible deployment of blue helmets in Eastern Ukraine. Both were agreed, according to the German government spokesman Steffen Seibert, that the Minsk agreement must be promptly and completely transformed into action to put an end to the conflict in the area.
The German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel believes that the sanctions against Russia can be relaxed if a cease-fire comes into force in eastern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian government and separatist insurgents have agreed to exchange prisoners on Wednesday. Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church announced this after conversations with the leaders of the so-called People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.
French president Emmanuel Macron will call his colleagues from Russia, Germany and Ukraine on Monday to discuss the situation in eastern Ukraine. That was announced by his advisor on Saturday. The consultation with Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel and Petro Porosjenko is a new attempt to find a solution to the conflict.
The consultation Saturday between Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Emmanuel Macron of France and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the military conflict in Ukraine did not break through at the G20 summit in Hamburg.
The European Union officially extended the economic sanctions against Russia by six months until 31 January 2018. These have been agreed by the Member States after the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron had spoken to the EU leaders last week at a summit in Brussels About the state of affairs in Ukraine.
The economic sanctions imposed by the European Union against Russia will be extended by six months. That said EU president Donald Tusk on Thursday at the summit of government leaders in Brussels. The penalties were instituted because of Russian interference in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
The economic sanctions of the European Union against the Ukrainian peninsula Crimea will continue. Foreign Ministers of the 28 Member States extended the penalties for the imprisonment by Russia on Monday by one year.
France and Russia aim for a peaceful meeting in the so-called Normandy talks in the peace process for Ukraine's crisis-plunged Ukraine. In this informal group, Germany and Ukraine are also represented. The new president of France, Emmanuel Macron, announced this after a meeting with his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin in Versailles, Paris on Monday.
The major industrialized countries threatened Russia with further sanctions. In the final statement of the meeting of the G7 countries in Sicily, they insisted on the implementation of the Minsk peace agreement for eastern Ukraine.
A day after the authorities in Belarus have arrested hundreds of protesters on Sunday again people arrested in protests. In the capital Minsk have detained dozens of people who declared their solidarity with earlier protests in the country, the BBC reports.
The authorities Saturday during opposition protests, hundreds of people arrested in Belarus. That says a spokesman for the human rights organization Vesna-96 in Minsk. Also were some journalists have been arrested, including a BBC reporter.
Europe and the United States must maintain the sanctions against Russia until there is progress in the introduction of the Minsk agreements. That said, the German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel Friday.
Thousands of Belarusians have taken to the streets this weekend to protest against a tax for people who work too little. People who spend less than 183 days a year on the job, must pay a fee of the equivalent of 234 euros.
The United States is and will remain inextricably linked with NATO. Even if the Americans seek a way for good relations with Russia, they are not blind to the threat of the Russian superpower.
The United States will intensify their efforts to restore peace and security along the border between Ukraine and Russia. That promised President Donald Trump to his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko.
Russia accuses Ukraine of violating international agreements because the country bombarded civilians in eastern Ukraine. Further, Kiev throwing weapon in the battle that should not be used in accordance with peace agreements reached in Minsk.
Russia must ' significant 'influence use by separatists in eastern Ukraine to quell the violence flared up. That message gave Secretary-General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday in Brussels.
France and Germany agree that ease or eliminate the sanctions against Russia should be dependent on the progress of the peace process in eastern Ukraine. The agreements on file in Donbas are laid down in the agreement of Minsk.
The economic sanctions that the European Union instituted in July 2014 against Russia, on Monday formally extended to 31 July 2017. The Government of the 28 Member States had last week unanimously given the green light for.
Ukrainian Motherland Party has put its former topkandidate Nadezhda Savtsjenko from the group. Following is an encounter she had with leaders of the pro-Moscow separatists.
Ukraine is delighted that the European Union will extend economic sanctions against Russia for six months. President Petro Poroshenko is 'sincerely grateful for the unity and solidarity of the European leaders,' he wrote on his Facebook page.
The German and French governments want the European sanctions be extended against Russia. Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Francois Hollande announced it Tuesday. The two leaders believe that too little progress has been made in the peace in eastern Ukraine.
US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Sunday said four minutes together on the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Community.
In Ukraine talks in Berlin, according to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko agreed a plan for peace. In addition, there should be an armed police mission in Donbass. That said Porosjenko after a five-hour meeting between the leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine.
For the first time since the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine in the spring of 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin to Berlin. He talks Wednesday, October 19 in the German capital with Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and the Ukrainian Head of State Petro Poroshenko on the peace process in eastern Ukraine, said a German government spokesman Tuesday
A young man sat in a shopping center in the Belarusian capital Minsk women attacked with a chainsaw and hammer. A woman was killed and another was seriously injured said the police.
The Kremlin wants to talk again about the crisis in Ukraine in Berlin, Paris and Kiev. They spoke to each other for the first time in this context in Normandy in 2014. The four-party consultation is therefore called Normandy format. Russia turned off in August of this discussion group, because Ukraine would have been guilty of plotting terrorist attacks.
European sanctions against Russia about 150 people and 37 companies and organizations will be extended by six months. The ambassadors of the EU Member States were to match Wednesday, according to diplomatic sources.
