Moscow and Kiev are a solution to their dispute over Russian gas supplies come closer. For the first time advise Ukrainian and Russian military officials also on the implementation of the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. All News Ticker
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22:50 clock: Ukrainian military officials have taken to the frontline in the east of the country for the first time Russian colleagues to them about the to discuss implementation of the agreed ceasefire. As the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) announced that they had been invited from Kiev to the talks on Friday as a mediator. The meeting took place in the town Soledar, in controlled by government forces of the Donetsk region. The pro-Russian separatists were also represented by its own account and, according to a Ukrainian diplomat.
While the Foreign Ministry in Moscow the direct participation of Russian military officials denied, 76 Russian military personnel were present, according to the Ukrainian army. Core of the talks was the demilitarization of the 30-mile-wide buffer zone in eastern Ukraine were to be freed of mines and heavy weapons unit. After the entry ban in Russia:
each accompanied by Ukrainian and Russian observers 21:53 clock – plans call for the division of the area into four or five sectors to be monitored by OSCE expert teams. the Greens-Europe politician Rebecca Harms (57) has defended the decision of the authorities of the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. About the specific case he did not know though decision, the minister of the agency Interfax, according to said during a visit to New York. “Every country has the right, without giving any reason a citizen of another country to refuse entry,” he said. The Green Party leader in the European Parliament Harms was the day before at a Moscow airport of entry to Russia been denied
20.45 clock:.. European Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger expressed optimism about the compromise proposal in the gas dispute between Ukraine and Russia “I consider this solution to be viable,” said the after hours of talks with the energy ministers of both countries in Berlin. Together were reportedly vertices for a “winter package” worked to secure gas supplies to Europe and the Ukraine by the end of March 2015. The compromise proposal that Ukraine by year-end total of 3.1 billion dollars paid on debts towards the Russians, conversely Russia supplies gas to the end of March at a price of 385 dollars (about 303 euros) per 1,000 cubic meters. The EU wants to ensure that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) guarantees the payments of Kiev. Until next week, the governments in Moscow and Kiev have now time to vote for this package. Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Nowak said: “The details of Winter package are satisfactory for us.” The Ukraine so far did not comment officially
19.03 clock. Forensic scientists have identified more victims of the crashed over eastern Ukraine, Malaysia Airlines aircraft MH17 This week had the identities of 26. can be clarified victims, told the Dutch authorities. Thus, a total of 251 298 victims identified. 19 of the last victims were identified according to the Dutch Ministry of Justice Netherlands. Seven were members of other nationalities, but which were not published by request of the respective embassies of the countries of origin
17.11 clock. Participation of foreign investors in the Russian media should in future be more limited. The Russian lower house decided in the third and final reading a bill, with the share of foreign investors should be limited to national media companies to 20 percent. The text was drafted by communist and ultra-nationalist parliamentarians of the Duma. So far was in Russia a system in which foreign participation in radio and television was limited to 50 percent. The new law will apply to all Russian media, to come into force for online media, and in January 2016. are affected newspapers like “Vedomosti”, “The Moscow Times” and the Russian version of the monthly magazine “Forbes”. Even the radio station Moscow Echo, which is known for its independent reporting is in part controlled by a U.S. company
16.45 clock. In the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine have risen, according to the EU Commission, the chances considerably on a solution. There are cornerstones for a “winter package” has been developed to ensure the gas supplies to Europe through the winter until spring , EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger said after negotiations with the two sides of Berlin. The Ukraine is to pay a price of 385 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic meters for gas for the winter period in the next six months. In addition, Ukraine committed, according to Oettinger to pay two billion dollars for open gas bills to the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom by the end of October. The EU will obtain a guarantee for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Oettinger said. By the end then another 1.1 billion from Kiev to Moscow were due.
16.15 Clock: The European Commission has received demands from Russian President Vladimir Putin after changes in EU free trade agreement with Ukraine EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso had a letter from Putin to. get, a spokeswoman said in Brussels. The EU Commission was working on a reply, she added, made it clear: “If there are any changes must be agreed upon by the EU and Ukraine.” As part of the Association Agreement with Ukraine, the EU had also negotiated with the government in Kiev a comprehensive free trade agreement. Both agreements Russia rejects decisively. To achieve defuse the conflict with Moscow, Russia, the Ukraine and the EU Commission had agreed two weeks ago to delay the application of the FTA by 15 months to years beginning in 2016.
14.50 clock : In the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine both sides have exacerbated the pitch. Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk accuses Vladimir Putin of using the gas as a weapon. “You want us to freeze,” he said on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, it was learned on Friday. This was the goal of Russia for the coming winter . Moscow had with the gas supplies a trump card. Russia had previously threatened European States with restrictions on the power supply, this imported gas should transfer part of the Ukraine. “The agreements entered no re-exports,” said Energy Minister Alexander Nowak had said. Russia and Ukraine negotiate in Berlin brokered by the EU on a possible agreement
13.30 clock. The Russian Government, according to the Green-Europe politician Rebecca Harms (57) a “stop list” created to prevent unpleasant EU politicians from entering the country. “This has given me the German Embassy in Moscow,” said Harms in Brussels journalists. They do not know who am on this list except her. The Green Party leader in the European Parliament on Thursday was at the Moscow airport of entry to Russia was denied. She wanted to participate on Friday as an observer at a court hearing in Moscow against the accused for murder Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko.
10.53 Clock: After the imposition of house arrest against Russian billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov justice going against his conglomerate Sistema . A Moscow court ordered, shares of the oil company Bashneft to seize , which are owned by Sistema, as the prosecutor announced on Friday. So doing, it allowed an application by the prosecution.
Sistema had acquired Bashneft five years ago. The investigator claims to have evidence that Yevtushenkov was involved in the course of the business to break the law. The entrepreneur is therefore under house arrest. Recently it has been speculated that the Russian state oil company Rosneft could be interested in Bashneft. Its chief Igor Sechin is considered a close confidant of President Vladimir Putin. The Bashneft shares have since July, about half of its value lost
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