The EPP/CD Group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe strongly condemned the sanctions imposed by the Russian Federation against Jacques Maire, the rapporteur on the poisoning of Alexei Navalny for PACE, and…
Attack on Germany from Germany
April 30, 2021
Russian propaganda uses freedom of speech in the West to wage ideological warfare and promote Kremlin’s agenda At the Fifth International Forum of Russian-Language Electronic Media held in Moscow in September 2019, Dinara Toktosunova, the…
Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced its decision to expel three Slovak diplomats, two diplomats from Lithuania, one Latvian diplomat, and another from Estonia. “A strong protest was lodged to the heads of diplomatic missions over provocative…
YouControl experts added sanctions lists of the most influential subjects of international law to the system and determined the number of Ukrainians, Russians and Belarusians on them. They also defined the reasons for falling under…
How Not to Fall under Sanctions: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Launches Campaign for Residents of EU Countries
April 21, 2021
An information campaign called ‘Learn-Check-Act,’ launched by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, is aimed at counteracting Russia’s attempts to legitimise its presence in the occupied territories of Ukraine through business, education, culture, and people-to-people…
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba took part in an online meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council at the invitation of the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep…
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba had a telephone conversation with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Stef Blok. Kuleba informed his counterpart in detail about the latest actions…
The Russian Federation intimidates Europe by sending its combat aircraft to the borders of the European Union’s airspace, Belgian MEP Assita Kanko (European Conservatives and Reformists Group) posted on her Facebook page. She promised to…
At least 80 members of Russian diplomatic missions in Italy work for Russia’s main intelligence services: the Main Intelligence Directorate, the Federal Security Service, and the Foreign Intelligence Service. This is reported by La Repubblica…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine welcomes adoption of the OSCE Permanent Council consensus decision on extension of the mandate of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine until 31 March 2022. Ukraine is…
Air Accidents: Planes Destroyed by Russia
March 31, 2021
On 25 February, Antoni Macierewicz, the head of the Committee for the Re-Investigation of the Smolensk Plane Crash, former Polish defence minister and incumbent MP, made a statement at the Polish Sejm, saying that the…
Australia and Canada imposed sanctions on four companies and one Russian citizen over the construction and operation of the Kerch Bridge. According to Australia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Marise Payne, targeted financial sanctions and travel bans were…
In 2018, the Consul General of Russia in Strasbourg was expelled from France for espionage. Recently, this story has gained wide resonance in the French, as well as Ukrainian and even Russian media and social…
G7 Foreign Ministers’ Statement on Ukraine
March 19, 2021
We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union, are united in our condemnation of Russia’s…
Foreign Ministry’s Statement: Russia Spreads False Narratives about Situation on Crimean Peninsula at UN
March 18, 2021
On 17 March, the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations held an event dedicated to the situation in the temporarily occupied Crimea. The event pursued a propagandist objective: to spread false…
To: Refat Chubarov, Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People My dear friend Refat, We met in Riga 33 years ago, during the establishment of the People’s Front and the Singing Revolution. You stood…
Recently, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov made a statement on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Russia’s accession to the Council of Europe. However, Russia, which joined this international…
Germany is Main Target of Russia's Disinformation
March 9, 2021
Germany has been the target of Russian disinformation campaigns most often compared to other EU countries. In particular, more than 700 such cases have been recorded since the end of 2015, reads the report of…
Ukraine Welcomes EU's Decision to Impose Sanctions over Human Rights Violations in Russia
March 3, 2021
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine welcomes the decision of the European Union to apply for the first time a new global human rights sanctions regime against four Russian officials over human rights violations…
NGO Institute for Security Policy, Austrian Ministry of Defence, and Valdai-Club: Case Study on Russian Influence in Central Europe
February 8, 2021
In August 2018, Russian President Putin made headlines by dancing arm-in-arm with Austria’s Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl at her wedding. The “friendliness” of Austria’s politicians with Russia is no coincidence – it is a result…
