Новости за 27.09.2015

Editor's Note: The following remarks by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko came at a meeting with former U.S. President Bill Clinton's 11th Clinton Global Initiative meeting.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Sept. 27 discussed Russia's military involvement in Syria, as well as ways to "de-conflict" and the possibility of a political transition for the war-ravaged country.

There is no precise match in the Russian language for the English expression, "I hate to say, 'I told you so'." But something similar will likely be on the mind of Russian President Vladimir Putin when he meets with his American counterpart, Barack Obama, on Monday during the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

Protests have already begun today in New York ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech on Sept. 28 at the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly, where President Petro Poroshenko will also speak.

Editor's Note: The following is an official transcript of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's remarks on Sept. 27 to the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in New York.

Several hundred Russian protesters have held an antiwar demonstration in St. Petersburg. On the same day on Sept. 27, several dozen people also joined a similar march in Moscow to call for an end to Russia's intervention in Ukraine and stay out of the conflict in Syria.

American instructors will train Ukrainian special troops, Pres Poroshenko said in New York on Sept. 27, Interfax reports.

Reports say at least 15,000 people are protesting against Moldova's government in the capital, Chisinau.

Opposition Communist politician Sergei Levchenko was elected as the governor of Siberia's Irkutsk region, official results showed on Sept. 27, the first victory by a non-Kremlin candidate in Russian gubernatorial elections since 2005.

TALLINN - On Sept. 28, ethnic Russians in Estonia will wake up to a new television channel created expressly for them, a move by the Estonian government to reach out to its Russian minority and counter what Western governments have described as the Kremlin's infowar.

As José Mourinho returns to Porto with Chelsea, we take a closer look at the protagonists at the Portuguese club who helped him pull off a huge shock in 2004.

The Belarus president is warning of another world war "if we make one more step toward global conflict," and the ally of Russia made a not-so-veiled attack on Western efforts to address the conflict in Syria.

A blast has occurred outside an office of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) in the port city of Odesa.

It's been a good week for President Vladimir Putin. Apparently all is quiet in eastern Ukraine, he opened a new Grand Mosque in Moscow that will accommodate up to 10,000 people and he's had conversations with Israeli and Arab leaders about his peace plans for the Middle East and Russia's role in Syria.

President Barack Obama and the leaders of some of America's closest allies are addressing a major United Nations summit on its last day on Sept. 27 as Syria's conflict and issues like climate change threaten to push the stated topic, global development, onto the sidelines.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sept. 27 branded U.S. support for rebel forces in Syria as illegal and ineffective, saying U.S.-trained rebels were leaving to join Islamic State with weapons supplied by Washington.

ROME - Four-time Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Sept. 27 the Crimean people had made a democratic choice to split from Ukraine and hailed Russian President Vladimir Putin as the world's greatest political leader.

Warsaw is to summon ambassador to Poland after he said the country was partially to blame because it did not allow Soviet troops to transit its territory in the run up to war

One Ukrainian soldier was killed and another one was wounded in the Donbas conflict zone on Saturday, presidential administration press secretary for Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) issues Colonel Oleksandr Motuzianyk said in Kyiv on Sunday.

On Monday September 28, Russia's president will propose to the United Nations General Assembly his plan for a broad coalition to defeat ISIS.

France doesn's need to strike terrorist targets in Syria, National Front leader Marine Le Pen said today, saying it would be better off aligning with Russia and its greater resources to cope with terrorists in the Middle Eastern country.

Russian-backed militants will deny accreditation for a number of international non-commercial international humanitarian organisations, including the United Nations OCHA, Norwegian Refugee Council, Action Contre la Faim, Mercy Corps and others, to prevent them from operating in the occupied territories.

The Ukrainian military says one of its soldiers has been killed in a landmine blast in the country's east.

A Ukrainian soldier was killed, and another injured, after stepping on a land mine in the war-torn separatist east, but a new ceasefire deal remains in place, a military spokesman said Saturday.

Russia's ambassador to Poland sparked outrage at the highest levels of the Polish government when he suggested that the Russian invasion of Poland in World War II was 'self defense.'