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Chabad Rabbi: Thousands of Russian Jews Awaken to Their Roots
Rabbi Shmuel Kaminsky of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, discussed the mass Seder he presided over in a city where some fifty thousand Jews live. …read more Source: Arutz...
Ukrainian parliament recognizes militia that collaborated with Nazis
The Simon Wiesenthal Center condemned Ukraine’s recognition of the group as well as a second bill that equated communist and Nazi crimes. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
German FM rejects calls to invite Putin to G7 talks
G7 nations held a summit without Putin last year in protest against Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region …read more Source: Al...
Orthodox Christians Celebrate Easter
Orthodox Christians around the world are celebrating Easter Sunday. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his family observed Orthodox Easter services at Volodymyrsky Cathedral in the capital, Kyiv. Ukrainian Patriarch Filaret prayed for peace and said “we are strongly sure that God will send us a win over the aggressor,” in a...
Pro-Russians ‘violate cease-fire 20 times’: Ukraine
Separatists target Ukrainian soldiers near Peski, Avdeevka, Opitnoe, Lagerovka and Sirokino villages in last 24 hours, claim Ukrainian officials. …read more Source: Anadolu...
Pro-Russians violate cease-fire 20 times
Separatists target Ukrainian soldiers near Peski, Avdeevka, Opitnoe, Lagerovka and Sirokino villages in last 24 hours, claim Ukrainian officials. …read more Source: World...
Hospital in rebel-held east Ukraine shelled despite cease-fire
A hospital in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk was hit by artillery fire on Sunday, Orthodox Easter, despite a cease-fire, but caused no casualties, local authorities say …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia supplying weapons, troops to Ukraine separatists: report
Foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France to meet on Monday …read more Source:...
Ukraine bans Soviet-era icons; statues smashed
KIEV: Masked men toppled three statues of Communist leaders overnight on Friday Ukraine’s city of Kharkiv, days after parliament moved to purge Soviet-era symbols countrywide. A video posted on YouTube by an anti-Russian militant group called “We’ve had enough” —a video shows the men smashing three large monuments glorifying Bolshevik...
CORRECTED-Main players in Ukraine debt battle prepare to face off
(Drops word French in para 10)By Sujata RaoLONDON, April 9 (Reuters) – Three years after facing off over Greece&aposs debt workout, the two giants of debt restructuring – Lazard and Blackstone – are again preparing to do battle, one for Ukraine and the latter on behalf of its creditors.The aim of having private investors...
