Section: The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Ukraine claims deal with Russia to release pilot Savchenko
Ukraine’s president says he has reached a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to release a jailed Ukrainian pilot …read more Source: The Daily...
New Ukraine finance minister wants wriggle room in IMF talks
Ukraine could ask the International Monetary Fund to revise the criteria under which it disburses loans to Kiev, the new finance minister, Oleksandr Danyliuk, said in a newspaper interview published Saturday, without providing specifics …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia to tell NATO Baltic buildup ‘absolutely unjustified’
Russia will use rare talks with NATO next week to protest the alliance’s “absolutely unjustified” military buildup in the Baltic states, Moscow’s ambassador to Brussels said Friday, adding the alliance was using the Ukraine crisis as a pretext. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine seeks 15 years in jail for suspected Russian troops
Ukraine’s military prosecutors Friday demanded 15-year jail terms for two suspected Russian surveillance soldiers who were captured in the war-torn separatist east last May …read more Source: The Daily...
Paris, Berlin urge ‘rapid’ action by new Ukraine leaders
France and Germany Friday called on Ukraine’s new government to act quickly to implement the Minsk peace accords and internal reforms, the French presidency said …read more Source: The Daily...
Crimea authorities ban Tatar governing body
The Russian authorities in Crimea Wednesday banned the governing body of the Crimean Tatar community, the Mejlis, in a move slammed by international rights group …read more Source: The Daily...
Opponents of Russian annexation persecuted in Crimea: Europe rights body
* Council of Europe won access to Black Sea region in January * Says repression targets Tatars, other critics of new order By Gabriela Baczynska Europe’s leading human rights organization said on Thursday that Crimea’s indigenous Muslim Tatars and other opponents of the region’s annexation by Russia face persecution including...
EU says new Ukraine PM ‘crucial,’ calls for reforms
The European Union said on Thursday that Ukraine’s parliamentary approval of Volodymyr Groysman as prime minister was “crucial” and urged speeding up reforms …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia’s Putin says Western sanctions to remain in near future
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he does not see Western sanctions on Russia being lifted in the near future …read more Source: The Daily...
Ally of Ukraine’s president elected new prime minister
The speaker of the Ukrainian parliament was elected prime minister on Thursday in what could mark an end to a months-long government crisis in a country crippled by a separatist war in the east. …read more Source: The Daily...
