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Crimea authorities ban Tatar governing body
The Russian authorities in Crimea Wednesday banned the governing body of the Crimean Tatar community, the Mejlis, in a move slammed by international rights group …read more Source: The Daily...
Uman hotel refuses to rent rooms to Jews, Ukrainian Jewish leader says
Dolinsky said he called the hotel, a small establishment with just 17 rooms, because he read an online review by a Jew who was turned away. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Would Putin save Turkey or Ukraine leader from drowning?
Russia President put ‘in an awkward position’ by question from 12-year-old boy …read more Source: Gulf...
Ukraine parliament approves Volodymyr Groysman as new PM
Ukraine’s parliament has voted in Volodymyr Groysman, a close ally of President Petro Poroshenko, as prime minister in the most significant political shuffle since a pro-Western government took power two years ago. …read more Source: Iran...
Ukraine parliament appoints pro-EU Groysman as prime minister
The fast-rising new premier is a Poroshenko protégé who only two years ago served as mayor of the small western Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia …read more Source: Gulf...
Crimean Tatar leader slams Russia’s suspension of Mejlis
Move to suspend Mejlis of Crimean Tatar People ‘declaration of war,’ Crimean Tatar leader Kirimoglu says …read more Source: World...
Opponents of Russian annexation persecuted in Crimea: Europe rights body
* Council of Europe won access to Black Sea region in January * Says repression targets Tatars, other critics of new order By Gabriela Baczynska Europe’s leading human rights organization said on Thursday that Crimea’s indigenous Muslim Tatars and other opponents of the region’s annexation by Russia face persecution including...
Tatar leader slams Russia’s suspension of Crimea Mejlis
Move to suspend Mejlis of Crimean Tatar People ‘declaration of war,’ Tatar leader Kirimoglu says …read more Source: Anadolu...
Putin says shares Russians’ pain over economic hardship
By Andrew Osborn and Alexander Winning President Vladimir Putin assured ordinary Russians on Thursday that he was trying to relieve the hardships inflicted on them by the slowing economy and the financial knock-on effects of Russia’s stand-off with the West. Putin used a televised phone-in, an annual event when he fields questions from...
Ukraine’s new PM revealed
Parliament chairman Volodymyr Groysman becomes country’s youngest premier …read more Source: Anadolu...
