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Putin: Crimea is like Jerusalem to Russia
Russian President criticizes Western sanctions in parliamentary speech. …read more Source: World...
Putin: Crimea is to Russia what Jerusalem is to Muslims, Jews
Russian President criticizes Western sanctions in parliamentary speech. …read more Source: Anadolu...
Crimean Tatar leader seeks EU help against pro-Russians
Children in eastern Ukraine being used as human shields by separatists, says human rights advocate …read more Source: World...
Crimean Tatar leader seeks EU help against pro-Russians
Children in eastern Ukraine being used as human shields by separatists, says human rights advocate …read more Source: Anadolu...
110 separatists killed in Eastern Ukraine
…read more Source: Anadolu...
Rolling Blackouts Expanded In Ukraine
Ukraine officials say rolling two-hour blackouts that began in some towns Monday are being expanded. Ukraine Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchishin said Wednesday a technical fault forced operations at the Zaporizka nuclear plant to shut down Friday. Concerns were raised earlier when Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk spoke of a nuclear power …...
110 separatists killed in Eastern Ukraine in two days
Conflict escalated in spite of cease-fire agreement signed by Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source: World...
Putin says foes hope to dismember Russia; rouble falls as he speaks
By Timothy Heritage and Alexei Anishchuk President Vladimir Putin accused Russia’s enemies on Thursday of seeking to carve it up and destroy its economy to punish it for growing strong, in an annual state of the union speech that seemed to outdo even his own recent strident nationalism. The Kremlin leader trumpeted his annexation of...
Russia’s Putin Defends Annexation of Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended his country’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and accused the West of using the Ukraine crisis as a pretext to impose sanctions on Moscow. Delivering his annual state of the union speech Thursday, Putin referred to Crimea as Russia’s spiritual ground. On the subject of...
Putin defends foreign policy in state address
Russian president accuses western governments of using Ukraine crisis as a pretext to slap sanction on his country. …read more Source: AL...
