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Ukraine's security services on Tuesday (April 12) said they had arrested pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, who is President Vladimir Putin's closest and most influential ally in Ukraine.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Tuesday (July 21) that he will only have capable people fill the vacant ministerial posts. He made this announcement after attending the weekly Cabinet meeting.

The candidate for Pheu Thai, the leading opposition party, has dropped his plans to run in the Lampang by-election despite having a higher chance of beating Palang Pracharath Party.

Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has revealed his thoughts on the Covid-19 crisis in Thailand, saying that the lockdown measures were a mistake that were damaging the economy.

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has slammed fellow Bhumjaithai Party member Boonkua Pussatevo on Wednesday (April 15) for a Facebook comment that was understood as saying “stupid citizens will lead us to death”.

Chaturon Chaisang, a former member of the dissolved Thai Raksa Chart Party, wants overseas Thais to be able to return to their homeland despite the new directive restricting arrivals.

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha must go and also the laws, the regulations, the judicial system and the Constitution designed by the National Council for Peace and Order, or else the country would face the same problems again, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit warned.

Kao Klai Party has been chosen as the name of a new party being launched by former executives of the dissolved Future Forward Party.

In a farewell message as leader of the now-dissolved Future Forward Party, posted a message of hope, exhorting the people and elected representatives to stay true to their mission of “fighting the dictatorship and bringing back democracy”.

Whether the Future Forward Party is ordered dissolved or not on Friday (February 21), its admirers and critics alike should be prepared to accept the court’s verdict and refrain from staging protests, Democrat Party spokesperson Ramet Rattanachaweng said on Thursday.

Former interior minister and Pheu Thai Party ex-leader Yongyuth Wichaidit, 78, who was accused of land corruption in a case involving the Alpine Golf Club, was taken to Bangkok Remand Prison to serve a two-year imprisonment sentence handed down by the Court of First Instance and the Court of Appeals on February 28, 2019.

A Pheu Thai MP on Sunday (February 16) accused Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha of favouring a businessman from the new CBD Bangkok project for a 50-year lease contract of the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre.