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France hopes to see Russia sanctions lifted ‘this summer’
The Minsk peace deal is a package of measures agreed by the leaders of France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia in the Belarusian capital …read more Source: Al...
France voices hopes Russia sanctions are removed
France is hoping that Western imposed sanctions on Russia for its alleged intervention in Ukraine are removed by this summer. “The goal that we all share is to be able to lift the sanctions this summer because the (Minsk peace) process will have been respected,” said French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron during a visit to Moscow on...
The unorthodox path of a Ukrainian Jew in the ‘new’ Ukraine
Asher Cherkasskiy lived a modest life in peaceful southern Ukraine, observing Orthodox Jewish custom and putting his three children through religious school. But when war against pro-Russian insurgents broke out in 2014, everything changed. Cherkasskiy became one of the few religious Jews to join a pro-Kiev militia and his bearded, bespectacled...
Ukraine, Saudi Arabia trade volume growing
Trade volume in the last period exceeded $1 billion and $200 million in 2014 as well as the last year, 2015. The volume of trade, certainly, will increase, especially that the volume of exports from Ukraine to …read more Source:...
Securing Interests: Russia Could Deploy Ground Troops to Crimea ‘if Needed’
TEHRAN (FNA)- Amid the rising number of threats, such as NATO’s expansion and Ukraine’s irredentism in the Black Sea region, Russia is building up its military capabilities in Crimea, including the possible deployment of ground troops to the peninsula. …read more Source: Fars News...
Russian general Igor Sergun dies suddenly after being ‘sent to Syria by Vladimir Putin to ask President Assad to step down’ | Middle East | News
A Russian general has died of unknown causes just weeks after reportedly being sent to Syria to negotiate with President Bashar al-Assad. Colonel-General Igor Sergun was the head of Russia’s secretive GRU military intelligence service and Deputy Chief of the armed forces General Staff. The Ministry of Defence gave no information on how or...
Headliner: Noam Chomsky on ISIL, Turkey and Ukraine
The author discusses the war against ISIL, his public spat with the Turkish president and Russia’s annexation of Crimea. …read more Source: AL...
Russians’ Anxiety Swells as Oil Prices Collapse
Photo Workers at a Sbarro restaurant in Moscow protested, claiming they had not been paid in months. Credit James Hill for The New York Times KRASNODAR, Russia — Last year was bad enough financially for Sergei and Victoria Titov, both music teachers getting along in years. Her government salary was slashed by one third, and rampant inflation put...
Russia slams US move on honorary consuls, provocations
Russia has condemned a US decision to withdraw credentials of most of the Russian honorary consuls as well as Washington’s “provocations” against Moscow. “We are indignant about Washington’s decision to withdraw the accreditation of five out of six honorary consuls of the Russian Federation in the United...
Britain had more motivation to kill Aleksandr Litvinenko than Russia, brother claims — RT News
The brother of Aleksandr Litvinenko says the UK government had more motivation to kill him than Russia did, despite a British public inquiry which concluded that President Putin “probably” approved the assassination. Maksim Litvinenko, Aleksandr’s younger brother who lives in Rimini, Italy, responded to the Thursday report by saying it was...
