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Russia prepares reprisals against Ukraine over Crimea blackout
By Andrew Osborn and Pavel Polityuk Russia said on Tuesday it would cut off gas supplies to Ukraine and threatened to halt coal deliveries, ratcheting up a dispute over a power blackout in Crimea at a time when a ceasefire between Kiev and separatist rebels is fraying. Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak accused the Ukrainian authorities of...
Experts pore over evidence of downed Malaysian Airlines plane
A team that includes Dutch and Ukrainian investigators have begun examining evidence from the MH17 Malaysia Airlines flight that was downed in eastern Ukraine in July 2014, killing all on board, Dutch prosecutors said Tuesday …read more Source: The Daily...
A Century Ago, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Changed Everything
Photo Credit Chad Hagen PRINCETON, N.J. — By the fall of 1915, Albert Einstein was a bit grumpy. And why not? Cheered on, to his disgust, by most of his Berlin colleagues, Germany had started a ruinous world war. He had split up with his wife, and she had decamped to Switzerland with his sons. He was living alone. A friend, Janos Plesch, once...
Putin’s ‘realpolitik’ aims to make Russia indispensable
By intervening in Syria, President Vladimir Putin has broken Russia’s relative isolation and is making it the “indispensable nation” in conflicts in Syria, Ukraine and with Islamic State while the United States balks at deeper involvement. But in this geopolitical poker game, it’s not clear he will be able to quit while...
Main French opposition calls for end to EU embargo on Russia
France’s main opposition party, The Republicans, Tuesday called on President Francois Hollande to push for an end to the European Union sanctions on Russia over its activities in Ukraine …read more Source: The Daily...
US policies on Ukraine conflict might lead to third world war: Analyst
The US government’s approach to the crisis in Ukraine might lead to possible military confrontation with Russia that will, in turn, result in a third world war. …read more Source:...
Qatar Purchases Missiles from Ukraine to Arm ISIL against Russian Fighter Jets
TEHRAN (FNA)- A group of Ukrainian hackers announced that they have achieved documents showing that Qatar has signed a contract with Ukraine to purchase anti-aircraft missiles for the ISIL terrorist group to hit and destroy Russian fighter jets in Syria. …read more Source: Fars News...
Russia says to halt gas supplies to Ukraine, mulling coal cut off over Crimea
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said Moscow would cut gas supplies to Ukraine on Tuesday or Wednesday because Kiev had not paid up front for more gas and might also halt coal supplies to Ukraine in retaliation for a power blackout of Crimea. Alexander Novak, in comments to Vesti FM radio station, was speaking as Russian-annexed Crimea...
Russia threatens to cut gas as Crimea blacked out
Black Sea peninsula has been hit by power cuts since an explosion at the weekend cut power lines from Ukraine, which supplies 90 per cent of its electricity …read more Source: World...
Anti-government protesters accuse Israel of seeking to colonize the Ukraine
Violence against Jews has declined in the Ukraine and remains much lower than in western Europe. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
