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Russia extends natural gas deal
Russia and Ukraine agreed last year on a “winter package” for supplies with a price discount of $100 per thousand cubic metres and advance payments, but that accord expired on Tuesday and has yet to be replaced. …read more Source: World...
Russian police storm home of prominent Crimean Tatar
Police quiz Mejlis deputy head Umerov for seven hours and search his house …read more Source: Anadolu...
Crimean Tatar TV channel is closed
First independent Crimean Tatar network ATR stops broadcasting after failing to get permission from Russian authorities. …read more Source: World...
Crimea broadcast network goes off air
First independent Crimean Tatar network ATR stops broadcasting after failing to get permission from Russian authorities. …read more Source: Anadolu...
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:...
Jewish charities strive to prepare for Passover amid war-torn Ukraine
In Kiev, internally displaced people will gather from across the country for Seders specially geared toward the exiles. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
US lawmaker urges weapons for Ukraine
KIEV: A top US lawmaker in Kiev on Tuesday urged President Barack Obama to provide arms to Ukraine, calling its conflict with pro-Russian separatists “the most significant threat to peace…since the end of WWII.” William “Mac” Thornberry, Chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services, met with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and...
Jewish Agency Rising to the Challenge of Ukrainian Aliyah
The Jewish Agency is taking part in an enormous humanitarian operation and overseeing a major increase in Jewish Olim to Israel …read more Source: Arutz...
Opinion: Putin’s Inverted Logic
Fate has decreed that Mr. Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia—and everybody knows what Russia is— shares the same logic of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Hezbollah militia. Both these men, who are involved one way or another with the fighting in Syria, the killing of its unarmed people, and intervening in the Arab state’s internal...
Poland says will train 50 Ukrainian military staff this year
Poland will provide training to around 50 Ukrainian army instructors this year, the Polish ministry of defence said on Tuesday, a part of NATO’s efforts to boost Ukraine’s defence capacity as it faces a pro-Russian rebellion in the east. The Ukrainians will be trained in Poland, the ministry said in a statement, with the courses...
