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Clashes after Crimea blacked out
Crimean Tatar activists blockading the site say they would prevent repairs until Russia released political prisoners, allowed international organizations to monitor human rights in Crimea …read more Source: World...
Ukraine halts trade with Crimea
PM Yatsenyuk instructed the Cabinet to prepare a draft government order on a specific list of goods and services that can be provided to the Crimea …read more Source: World...
Ukraine may halt trade with Crimea
Ukrainian President sent a letter to country’s PM with an offer to immediately establish working group to analyse the issue on termination of freight transport communication and trade turnover with temporarily occupied Crimea …read more Source: World...
Ukraine may stop trade with Crimea
Ukrainian President sent a letter to country’s PM with an offer to immediately establish working group to analyse the issue on termination of freight transport communication and trade turnover with temporarily occupied Crimea …read more Source: World...
Ukraine PM suggests temporary ban on goods deliveries to Crimea
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk Monday mooted a temporary ban on the delivery of goods to the Crimean peninsula which was annexed by Russia last year …read more Source: The Daily...
Most of Crimea still without electricity
Transmission towers along all four of power lines leading to Crimea were blown up two days ago, and activists reportedly have been preventing engineers from reaching the sites to carry out repairs …read more Source: World...
Ukrainian far-right hold anti-government rally in Kiev
Ukrainian nationalists have held an anti-government protest in Kiev. …read more Source:...
Crimea declares emergency after power lines blown up
CRIMEA: Crimea declared a state of emergency on Sunday after its main electricity power lines from Ukraine were blown up, leaving the Russian-annexed peninsula in darkness after the second such attack in a matter of days. Crimea depends on Ukraine for its electricity supplies, providing only 30 per cent of its own energy, according to the...
Russia serious about solution in Syria, German minister says
By Noah Barkin Russia feels increasingly under threat from developments in the Middle East and appears to be serious about cooperating with western countries to resolve the war in Syria, Germany’s foreign minister said on Sunday. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, whose Social Democrats (SPD) are traditionally more friendly towards Moscow than...
West embargo on Russia to prove counterproductive: Analyst
An analyst says the West embargo on Russia will not do anything to help the situation in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
