Section: Egylovers (Egypt)
Ukraine Working to Stabilize Cease-fire, Merkel Says
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Ukraine “is determined” to reach a more stable cease-fire with pro-Russian rebels in the country’s restive east. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk appear after talks at the chancellery in Berlin, April 1, 2015. x German Chancellor...
Russia Denies License to Tatar-Language TV Station in Crimea
Crimea’s independent Tatar-language television station… …read more Source:...
Russia Extends Natural Gas Deal With Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a plan to extend Moscow’s current natural gas deal with Ukraine for another three months. Russian authorities announced the extension Tuesday, just hours before a temporary pricing agreement reached in October 2014 was set to expire. The deal… …read more Source:...
Malaysian Airliner Crash Investigators Appeal for Missile Witnesses
AMSTERDAM—Dutch prosecutors said on Monday they are looking for witnesses in eastern Ukraine who may have seen a Russian-made BUK rocket being fired at Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, although they added that they have not yet concluded what caused the crash. The Netherlands is leading an international investigation into the disaster, which killed...
EU-Ukraine Summit Set for Late April in Kyiv
A summit between European Union officials and Ukraine’s leaders is scheduled to be held in Kyiv at the end of April. A statement on Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s official website said that during a Saturday phone conversation with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, “the parties have agreed … that...
Civilian Casualties Push Men to Join Rebels in Eastern Ukraine
DONETSK, UKRAINE—The continued fighting in eastern Ukraine and the shelling of civilian neighborhoods seem to be pushing more men to join the separatist fighters. Although the Kyiv government, the United States and the NATO alliance have shown the heavy presence of Russian fighters and weapons among the rebel forces, many of the new recruits are...
Civilian Casualties Push Men to Join Rebels in Ukraine
Patrick Wells Published March 27, 2015 The continued fighting in eastern Ukraine and the shelling of …read more Source:...
Families of slain Ukraine demonstrators demand justice
Obukhiv, Ukraine – Countless times on his computer, Vladimir Chaplinskiy has watched the moment his father Volodymyr was shot dead, each time looking for details he might have missed the last time, or the time before. The 21-year-old knows the sequence of events down to the second: his father… …read more Source:...
Senior US Official: Corruption Ukraine’s ‘Second War’
STATE DEPARTMENT—The United States is closely watching signs of possible major anti-corruption moves in Ukraine involving the forced resignation of a billionaire governor and the arrest of two top state emergency officials. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called for the resignation Tuesday of Ihor Kolomoisky, a powerful businessman who had...
Ukraine arrests officials on live TV in bribery case
Ukrainian police have detained the head of the state emergency service and his deputy on suspicion of extorting bribes, during a televised government meeting in the capital Kiev. Police handcuffed emergency services chief Serhiy Bochkovsky and his deputy, Vasiliy Stoyetsky, and marched the pair out of the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Prosecutors...
