Section: The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Russian protesters decry war in Ukraine, several detained
About 200 people have held an anti-war demonstration in St. Petersburg, while about 30 people joined a similar march in Moscow to call for Russia to withdraw its troops from Ukraine and stay out of the fighting in Syria. …read more Source: The Daily...
EU set for gas talks with Ukraine, Russia Friday: Moscow
Russia, Ukraine and the European Union are set to resume gas talks in Brussels on Friday aimed at restoring Russian gas supplies to neighboring Ukraine, the Russian energy minister said Thursday. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine’s pro-Russia rebels stage rare tank exercises
Ukraine’s pro-Moscow insurgents showed off their military prowess Thursday by launching exercises involving heavy tanks that Kiev claims they had covertly received from Russia …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine’s richest man plays both sides of war’s front line
In this town deep in eastern Ukraine’s rebel heartland, about a quarter of the population works in the coal mines owned by billionaire Rinat Akhmetov. …read more Source: The Daily...
High-profile trial of Ukrainian pilot begins in Russia
A Russian court has begun hearing the high-profile case against Ukrainian officer Nadezhda Savchenko, who is charged in the deaths of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine leader expresses wish to join NATO
Kkrainian President Petro Poroshenko has told the country’s security council that staying out of the NATO alliance was a ‘criminal’ policy that his government is ready to reverse …read more Source: The Daily...
Putin wants air base in Belarus
Russian President Vladimir Putin orders his ministers to agree a deal with Belarus so that Moscow can establish an air base in the ex-Soviet country, as Kremlin’s ties with the West remain at a post-Cold War low over the Ukraine crisis …read more Source: The Daily...
NATO chief to make first visit to Ukraine next week
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg will next week make his first visit to Ukraine, the alliance said Friday, as efforts to solve the conflict between pro-Russian rebels and government forces continue. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine probes Putin, Berlusconi wine drinking in Crimea
Ukrainian prosecutors are prepared to file charges against the director of a winery in Russia-occupied Crimea for uncorking a 240-year old bottle for Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. …read more Source: The Daily...
Youths in military uniform march through Warsaw on Soviet invasion anniversary
Around 5,000 Polish youths wearing military uniform and carrying Kalashnikov replicas marched through Warsaw, pledging to come to their country’s aid if necessary amid concern over Russian activity in Ukraine …read more Source: The Daily...
