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Chinese companies to build solar power stations in Chernobyl
Thirty years after the Chernobyl accident, two Chinese investment companies plan to build solar power stations (SPS) in the 10-km exclusion zone around the Chernobyl reactor. The construction is expected to start in 2017, as was reported on Monday, November 21 by Reuters. GCL System Integration Technology, a subsidiary of the GCL Group, said it would cooperate with China National Complete Engineering Corp. The planned location of future solar power stations was repeatedly checked by technical …
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Russia accuses Ukrainian Security Service of kidnapping of two Russian soldiers in the Crimea
Interfax has reported that the Russian Defense Ministry has accused the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of illegally detaining two Russian servicemen, and then transporting them out of the Crimea.
“At approximately 1pm on the 20th of November, employees of the SBU illegally detained two Russian soldiers, warrant officer Maxim Odintsov and junior sergeant of contract service Alexander Baranov, and transported them out of the Crimea to the Mykolaiv region,” the Russian agency said.
The …
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Poroshenko: Kremlin’s purpose is the revision of the European course of Ukraine
The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko said in his Day of Dignity and Freedom speech that Russia is attempting to destabilize the country in order to ensure early parliamentary elections, strengthen pro-Russian positions in the new Parliament and, in the end, cancel the European course of Ukraine.
“The enemy not only attacks from the outside but also undermines our country from the inside. The Kremlin’s purpose includes constant internal destabilization, anarchy, early parliamentary …
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Naftogaz warns about a possible rise in price of gas transit by $4 billion per year
Gazprom’s price for the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine may grow by 4 billion dollars a year should Ukraine succeed in the Stockholm arbitration, and be granted the amendment to the contract with Gazprom to adhere to European norms, as was posted on Facebook by the Commercial Director of Naftogaz of Ukraine, Yuriy Vitrenko, on November 19th.
Reiterating Ukraine’s position prior to the hearings in Stockholm which were scheduled for November 21st, Vitrenko also indicated that Gazprom will …
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Several localities in the Donbas are without water
Several localities in the Donbas including Avdiivka and a part of Donetsk are without water due to ongoing fighting. As reported by Ukrayinska Pravda, the Donetsk filter station came under shelling.
According to information from Ukrainian servicemen, separatists fired in the direction of the station. Supporters of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic report that localities are without water due to fire from government troops.
In the last day, three Ukrainian servicemen have been …