Ukraine crisis. News in brief. Friday 21 April. [Ukrainian sources]

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Erdogan is preparing to meet with Trump and Putin in May. Italy’s PM urges US, EU not to forget about Ukraine crisis, show unity against Russian aggression  Prominent Ukrainian Politician Detained In Corruption Probe.  Assad teach their children the Russian language.  Elections in France: Le Pen still lags behind for 2 days before vote. n the United States successfully tested a vaccine against cancer.

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Ukrainian investigators are seeking a court order to place an influential former lawmaker who is suspected of embezzlement in pretrial custody.

Mykola Martynenko was detained in Kyiv late on April 20 after the National Anticorruption Bureau (NABU) announced it was preparing to file charges against him.

Special anticorruption prosecutor Nazar Kholodnytskiy said on April 21 that prosecutors would seek a custody decision from a Kyiv court later in the day.

Martynenko is the second prominent political figure to have been detained in less than three months in Ukraine, whose government has faced pressure from its own citizens, Western governments, and the IMF to crack down on corruption.

An ally of former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and former chairman of parliament's fuel and energy committee, Martynenko is suspected of embezzling $17.3 million in a scheme involving a state company that provides uranium for nuclear power plants.

The court was also expected to rule on custody for Serhiy Pereloma, a former Odesa chemical plant chief who faces the same charges.................

rferl.org

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is preparing for a meeting in May with Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump

Reported Turkish Minute .

It is reported that Erdogan will meet with Putin on May 3, but with Trump - 16 or 17 May.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said that Erdogan and Trump hold a meeting before the summit on May 25 NATO in Brussels.

espreso.tv , Original in Ukrainian / на українській мові

Independent candidate for the presidential elections in France, Emmanuel macron currently the leader election race

Such survey results reported by the company Ipsos Sopra Steria, transmits Le Figaro .

Thus macron for victory in the first round they want to vote 24% of the French. Meanwhile, the leader of the "National Front" Marine Le Pen slightly behind him, her voice will give 22% of voters.

However, the candidate of the "GOP" Francois Fillon supported by 19% of the population, as a Socialist leader Benoit Amon can count on the support of 7.5% of the population.

espreso.tv, Original in Ukrainian / на українській мові

Russian is the second language in Syrian schools, parents and children in the country called Putin
This was stated by Ambassador of Syria to Russia Riyad Haddad, reports "Interfax".

"The decision of President Bashar Assad that the Russian is the second language in Syria - one of the elements thanks Syrian people Russian people for their support. Even many families named their children Putin. It's no secret if I say that the children of the president (Assad ) is taught Russian, "- said Haddad.

The ambassador added that all Syrian universities were open Russian language department. In the same study Russian schools beginning with grade 7.

espreso.tv , Original in Ukrainian / на українській мові

Scientists at the Cancer Institute in Boston presented the results of a new kind of cancer therapy

Writes Science Alert.

Cancer takes many forms, and often patients have to endure a few treatments before you find one that is effective against their particular form of cancer. If this process takes a long time, the consequences can be fatal.

The peculiarity of the new therapy is that the vaccine is specific for each patient. In other words, the vaccine was targeted to specific cancer cells. Their personalized vaccine prevented early relapse in 12 patients with skin cancer, and increase the immunity of patients. Each of these vaccines contain neoantiheny that are mutant proteins specific for tumor specific patient.

Once the immune system of the patient receives a dose neoantiheniv, it can activate the patient's T cells to attack cancer cells.

"Although these results are promising character therapies are relatively new and require much more clinical trials", - said study leader Katherine Wu.

espreso.tv , Original in Ukrainian / на українській мові

The EU countries incurred significant losses over sanctions on Russia, but it was the right decision to impose them in response to the Russian aggression against Ukraine.

As reported by Censor.NET citing Ukrinform, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said delivering speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington during his official visit to the United States.

According to him, neither the U.S. nor the European Union should forget about Ukraine crisis.

The Italian prime minister also said that the U.S. and EU made the right decision when they imposed anti-Russian sanctions in response to Ukraine developments.

Gentiloni said that the sanctions against Russia impacted Italy and Germany harder than other countries after the Russian federation occupied Ukrainian Crimea and backed separatists in the Donbas. However, he believes that the U.S. and EU should demonstrate not weakness, but unity in their efforts against Russian aggression.

As reported, Italy blocked the initiative to extend existing sanctions against Russia for a year instead of six months and imposition of new sanctions for war crimes in Syria at the EU summit on Dec. 15.

ua.censor.net.ua, Original in Ukrainian / на українській мові

Russia had provoked the bloody war in the Donbas, but failed to bring it to a victorious end and reach set goals.

This was announced by Kremlin propagandist, ultranationalist, one of the ideologists of the "Pax Russica" (Russian world) Alexander Dugin in Izborsky Klub magazine he controls, Censor.NET reports citing OstroV.

"The Donbas - the situation is very painful, for in fact it is just a half of the 'Russian spring.' I lost many dear people there, and it's so difficult to talk about it. We didn't seize Novorossia, we didn't lose Novorossia. We didn't refrain from acting, we didn't finish the act," he said.

"It is a bleeding wound that we initially helped creating. But then we hadn't cured it. We didn't bring it to end," Dugin said.

He believes that hesitation of the Kremlin, which is a signatory to the Minsk agreement and says that "DPR/LPR" have to be returned within Ukraine, is unacceptable.

"Our behavior is ugly. If you start killing - kill; if you don't want killing - get away. Why would you simply make it worse?" reads his 'analysis' of the situation in Ukraine.

Dugin is outraged with the fact that Russia paid full price for its incomplete act of aggression against Ukraine.

"We paid a full price, as if we did finish this act and have seized Novorossia, as if we did what we wanted to. … The situation is very painful and pathologic with the Donbas," Dugin wrote.

Dugin is a Russian chauvinist politician, Ukraine hater, one of the authors behind the concept of 'Pax Russica' and the so-called 'Novorossia' (separated eastern and southern regions of Ukraine). He is a subject to U.S. sanctions against Russians involved in aggression against Ukraine. Dugin is an editor-in-chief of Tsargrad TV and member of ultranationalist Izborsky Klub.

censor.net.ua , Original in Russian / На русском

The White House plan to find a diplomat who will contact Vladislav Surkov, who is assistant to the president of Russia Vladimir Putin.

It is reported Buzzfeed referring to European officials.

The main responsibility envoy to negotiations on the situation in Ukraine. To elect a worthy candidate to be US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

According to one of the US officials, the final decision is still pending and now the idea is under discussion.

It also reported that the decision adopted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel after talks with Donald Trump.

White House officials did not provide comments on the appointment of a special negotiator.

Earlier, held talks with Surkov, Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. Last known their meeting held on January 15 near Kaliningrad. During her Nuland Surkov and discussed the situation in the Donbas and implementation of the Minsk agreements .

The expert of the International Center for Policy Studies (ICPS) Evgeny Yaroshenko in his column on the "apostrophe" explained why the US is easier to negotiate with Russia on Syria than in Ukraine.

apostrophe.ua, Original in Ukrainian / на українській мові

Son State Duma deputy from LDPR US court sentenced to 27 years in prison for kibershahraystvo.

Roman Seleznyov was detained in 2014 in the Maldives. In his computer found 1.7 million stolen credit card numbers.

Prosecutors demanded the US for a Russian term of 30 years. According to investigators, the severity of the crimes committed stipulates life imprisonment and asked to disregard evidence.

It also reported that Seleznev had not requested commutation of the sentence. He was charged with 5 counts. Among them, causing damage to a protected computer to obtain information from a protected computer, storing more than 15 tools to kibershahraystva, theft of personal information. Jury found guilty on 38 counts out of 40.

MP Valery Seleznev and the Russian Foreign Ministry, in turn, said the abduction of Russian and violation of international law.

As reported by "Apostrophe", US Department of Justice has asked the Russian authorities to demand the extradition of three Russian citizens who are charged with cyber-crime.

apostrophe.ua , Original in Ukrainian / на українській мові