The Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea under the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office has issued indictments against two former members of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea on charges of high treason, according to the agency's website.
British MPs who have accepted up to GBP 1,000 an hour to appear on television shows broadcast on RT, formerly Russia Today, have defended their links to the station, classed by the U.S. government last week as a Kremlin propaganda vehicle, the Guardian reports.
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, passed draft law No. 5592-d as a whole on November 16 to amend some laws in order to simplify rules for doing business and raise investment by issuers of securities, having introduced a number of changes for the second reading, according to an UNIAN correspondent.