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Former President of Georgia and ex-Governor of Odessa region Mikhail Saakashvili will not be able to work in the government of Ukraine due to his criminal record, reported on April 25 in the Kiev edition of the Observer. According to article 7 of the Law On the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, a person who has a criminal record, has not been repaid or removed cannot be appointed to the post of a member of the Cabinet of Ministers, the message reads. However, Ukrainian law does not specify whether it matters where a person was convicted. We remind that Saakashvili was sentenced in absentia to prison terms in Georgia for crimes committed by him in the state post. Read also: Tbilisi calls on Kiev not to ruin relations by the appointment of Saakashvili It is assumed that court decisions on Saakashvili are valid on the territory of Ukraine, as this country has ratified the European Convention on the International Recognition of Court Decisions in Criminal Cases and signed a treaty with Geor...

All employees of Roscosmos who worked at the Kuru launch site in French Guiana were returned home, the press service of the state corporation reported on April 25. The plane with Russian specialists landed at 14:30 Moscow time at Sheremetyevo Airport. "The group of specialists of the NGO Lavochkin (part of the state corporation R...

Shanghai Customs reported the identification and seizure of locusts in a wooden parcel from western Asia for the first time in all time, according to Xinuha news agency on April 24. The desert locust is considered one of the most devastating of dozens of locust species in the world. It can move 150 km a day and a swarm of on...