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(SPIEF). No journalists from what Moscow deems "unfriendly countries" will be allowed to attend the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Russian state-controlled Tass news agency on June 3.
Putin signs the law on May 10 on Russia's withdrawal from the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty Russia will now give notice to the Depository (The Netherlands) on it decision to withdraw and the latter shall covene a conference of States Partiea within 21 days on what's next. Russia's final withdrawal from CFE Treaty to take place on November 7 — Russian MFA. The statement pointed out that the Russian Foreign Ministry would take all necessary steps to implement the federal law on the denunciation of this treaty
Crimea is an integral part of Russia, and therefore no agreements on the peninsula’s "lease" have ever been discussed with Ukraine, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on June 14. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said earlier that Russian President Vladimir Putin had given him a draft of the Istanbul agreements between Moscow and Kyiv, which allegedly contained a clause on "the lease of Crimea." "No, that is not true," Peskov said when asked whether such a possibility had been on the table. "Crimea is an inalienable part of Russia. It is a Russian region," he stated.
Putin attacks Zelensky, says he is ‘not Jewish.’ Russian dictator Vladimir Putin proclaimed that according to his Jewish friends, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is "not Jewish" and a "shame to the Jewish people," Telegram channel Smotri media reported on June 16.
African leaders came to Ukraine to ask for suspension of Putin's arrest warrant. The African leaders' delegation that came to Kyiv on June 16 to present a peace plan was mostly interested in suspending Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's arrest warrant, Mykhailo Podoliak, an advisor to Ukraine’s Presidential Office, said.
The US Congress is preparing to confiscate Russian assets to assist Ukraine, and Estonia is the first in the EU to develop a legal confiscation mechanism. The corresponding draft act has been introduced by a bipartisan group of US senators, which primarily concerns the assets of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. The document is entitled the Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity for Ukrainians Act (REPO) and has bipartisan support. It was introduced immediately to the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Here is what REPO offers:
● gives the US president the right to confiscate Russian sovereign assets frozen within the country and transfer them to help in Ukraine’s reconstruction; ● prohibits the unfreezing of sanctioned assets until Russia withdraws its
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