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Romania votes for new president
BUCHAREST: Romania’s Prime Minister Victor Ponta looked set to win the first round of a presidential election on Sunday, despite fears he could reverse reforms aimed at tackling the rampant corruption that blights one of Europe’s poorest countries. The vote is seen as a crucial test for the former communist country, at a time when...
Ukraine separatists vote in election
DONETSK: Two pro-Russian separatists are set to be confirmed as leaders in controversial elections in eastern Ukraine on Sunday – one a rebel chief who highlights his status as a miner’s son and the other a fan of Communist icon Vladimir Lenin. Alexander Zakharchenko, who commands rebels fighting Ukrainian government forces in the...
Pro-Russian rebels elect leadership in eastern Ukraine
Ukraine President Poroshenko calls vote ‘a farce’; U.S., EU denounce elections as illegitimate, but Russia has said it would recognize results. …read more Source:...
Ukraine President: separatist elections ‘brutally violate agreements’
President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, underlined that “all elections on Ukrainian territory, in which Ukrainian citizens vote, should be held solely within the boundaries of the Ukrainian constitution”. …read more Source: Anadolu...
Ukraine president calls rebel vote a ‘farce’
Petro Poroshenko’s condemnation comes as separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko claims victory, citing exit polls. …read more Source: AL...
Car bomb kills two soldiers in Ukraine
At least two Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and one solider has been wounded in a car bomb attack at a checkpoint in the southeast of city Mariupol. …read more Source: Anadolu...
Pro-Russian rebels vote for leader in eastern Ukraine -UPDATED
Rebels say the election will legitimise the separatist leadership and consolidate power, though many Donetsk residents say the vote will change nothing and the outcome is already a foregone conclusion …read more Source: World...
Ukraine separatists vote in controversial election
Polls billed as bringing a degree of legitimacy to the makeshift military regimes that already control them …read more Source: Gulf...
Ukraine: Pro-Russian separatists defy Kiev, hold polls
The elections began Sunday in self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic in eastern Ukraine …read more Source: Anadolu...
Gazprom to resume gas supply once Ukraine pays $2.2 bln
By Denis Pinchuk and Gabriela Baczynska Russia could resume natural gas deliveries to Ukraine as soon as next week if Kiev pays $2.2 billion in debt and pre-payments, gas exporter Gazprom said on Friday, under a deal that also safeguards winter deliveries to Europe. Moscow, Kiev and the European Union reached an agreement on Thursday over the gas...
