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Putin says foes hope to dismember Russia, defends Ukraine policy
President Vladimir Putin portrayed Russia as a strong state that would overcome its current difficulties. …read more Source: World...
Fleeing war and crumbling economy, Ukrainians flock to Europe
The nature of illegal immigration means it yields little data but legal flows show Ukrainians were the biggest single group of non-EU citizens granted residency permits by EU members in 2013. …read more Source: World...
Russia’s Ex-Economy Minister Sees Fundamental Problems
MOSCOW—Russia’s currency, the ruble, this week fell to its lowest value in a quarter century. Oil prices also fell as finance officials changed their economic forecast for next year from slight growth to recession. Russia’s economy is taking a beating from Western sanctions over Ukraine and foreign investment is fleeing the country....
Ukraine nuclear plant fault causes blackouts
Several regions face power outages but minister says accident at Zaporizhzhya facility poses no danger. …read more Source: AL...
Ukraine cock-up
This is what former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, subsequently driven from office by mass protests in Kyiv, said to German Chancellor Angela Merkel just one year ago, at the start of the crisis …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Ukraine says pro-Russia rebels violating truce
KIEV: Ukraine’s military on Wednesday accused pro-Russian fighters of violating a truce at an airport in rebel-held Donetsk that had been the focus of fighting for months. “Unfortunately, the ceasefire is not being respected,” Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council spokesman Andriy Lysenko said. “Attacks on the airport and...
UPDATE 2-Egypt’s GASC buys 175,000 T of wheat from Romania, Ukraine
(Adds strategic reserves to last until April) By Maha El Dahan ABU DHABI, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Egypt’s state grain buyer, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), said on Wednesday it had bought 175,000 tonnes of wheat from Romania and… …read more Source:...
Ukraine says “no threat” from accident at nuclear plant
France’s public nuclear safety institute IRSN said it had not detected any unusual radioactivity in Ukraine after Friday’s accident …read more Source: World...
Ukraine energy minister says “no threat” from accident at nuclear plant
Ukraine’s energy authorities said on Wednesday that an accident at a nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhya in the south-east of the country posed no danger and the plant would return to normal operations on December 5. “There is no threat … there are no problems with the reactors,” Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn, who took up his post in...
Ukraine: Nuclear power accident at world’s 5th largest plant
Accident at nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine causes power outages …read more Source: Anadolu...
