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July 04, 2019
Termination of Russian gas transit through Ukraine is under threat, - Naftogaz - 112 International
Talks on Russian gas transit across Ukraine to be resumed in September - Kyiv Post
Ukraine's Rada not obliged to invite PACE delegation to monitor elections – MFA - UNIAN
Talks on Russian gas transit across Ukraine to be resumed in Sept - Interfax Ukraine
How effective are Western sanctions on Russia? - Kyiv Post

Termination of Russian gas transit through Ukraine is under threat, - Naftogaz - 112 International

112 International
Termination of Russian gas transit through Ukraine is under threat, - Naftogaz According to Yuriy Vitrenko, Naftogaz Executive Director, the low level of domestic gas production is the reason
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Talks on Russian gas transit across Ukraine to be resumed in September - Kyiv Post

Kyiv Post
Talks on Russian gas transit across Ukraine to be resumed in September Published July 4 at 12:45 pm European Commission Vice-President in charge of Energy Maros Sefcovic gives a press statement with German Economy and Energy Minister Peter Altmaier (Unseen) in Berlin on April 16, 2018.Peter Altmaier and Maros Sefcovic meet on April 16, amid controversy over the planned Nord Stream 2 pipeline project to bring Russian natural gas to Germany.
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Ukraine's Rada not obliged to invite PACE delegation to monitor elections – MFA - UNIAN

UNIAN
There are only two bodies whose decisions are binding: the Committee of Ministers and the European Court of Human Rights. REUTERS The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Ukraine emphasizes the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, is not obliged to invite a delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to observe the elections in Ukraine."In previous years, there have been friendly partnership relations between the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which today can hardly be described as such.
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Talks on Russian gas transit across Ukraine to be resumed in Sept - Interfax Ukraine

Interfax Ukraine
12:26 04.07.2019 Talks on Russian gas transit across Ukraine to be resumed in Sept The trilateral talks in the Ukraine-Russia-European Commission format on transit of Russian gas across Ukraine in 2020 would be resumed in September 2019, Vice President of the European Commission Maros Sefcovic has said.
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How effective are Western sanctions on Russia? - Kyiv Post

Kyiv Post
On June 25, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe voted overwhelmingly to fully reinstate Russia to the human rights body, lifting an important European sanction on Moscow in the process.
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Tory leadership: Hunt backtracks on foxhunting and says ban will not be repealed - live news - The Guardian
Keeping up with the Google Nest Hub: The best smart displays of 2019 - CNET
FBI investigate discovery of 1,000 pages of WPAFB files at local home - WHIO
Cuba ‘Studying Cryptocurrency’ to Dodge US Sanctions, Says Gov’t - Cointelegraph
Putin, Xi Jinping ‘eroding’ democracy with Russian, Chinese stealth warfare - NEWS.com.au

Tory leadership: Hunt backtracks on foxhunting and says ban will not be repealed - live news - The Guardian

The Guardian
Jeremy Hunt has until now been running a better-than-expected campaign for the Tory leadership - if any party members are changing their mind after watching hustings, they seem more likely to be switching to Hunt than to Boris Johnson - but yesterday he made a rare error when he told the Daily Telegraph that he would support a free vote on repealing the ban on foxhunting and that he personally would vote to bring it back.
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Keeping up with the Google Nest Hub: The best smart displays of 2019 - CNET

CNET
The Google Nest Hub and the Amazon Echo Show are two of the best options.  Chris Monroe/CNET Since the Amazon Echo Show launched in 2017, almost a dozen smart displays have hit the market, with a new batch launching this summer.
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FBI investigate discovery of 1,000 pages of WPAFB files at local home - WHIO

WHIO
FAIRBORN — The FBI is investigating after more than 1,000 pages of highly sensitive, classified documents from a Wright-Patterson Air Force Base unit were recovered from a Fairborn home.
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Cuba ‘Studying Cryptocurrency’ to Dodge US Sanctions, Says Gov’t - Cointelegraph

Cointelegraph
Cuba is the latest country to consider using cryptocurrency to skirt U.S. sanctions, Reuters reported quoting a government source on July 3. In a public address on local television, the country’s president, Migual Diaz-Canel, said the plan would raise capital for around one quarter of the population, helping to pay for reforms. 
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Putin, Xi Jinping ‘eroding’ democracy with Russian, Chinese stealth warfare - NEWS.com.au

NEWS.com.au
War isn’t about submarines, ships and stealth fighters anymore. Those are the weapons of a bygone age. Instead, the new battlefields are truth, trust, information — and plausible deniability.
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