Section: Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
Russia warns British media after RT fined for coverage of poisoned spy
* UK fines state-financed Russian TV channel * RT says fine is wrong and disproportionate * Russia warns British media of consequences Russia on Friday warned British media operating on its territory that they should be ready for consequences after Britain’s media regulator fined the state-financed RT television channel over its coverage of...
Russia warns of ‘consequences’ after Ukraine seizes tanker
Ukraine on Thursday seized a Russian tanker it said was used in a naval confrontation last November amid sensitive prisoner swap talks between the two countries, at loggerheads since 2014. Kiev’s SBU security service said it stopped the tanker, the Neyma, as it entered the port of Izmail in the southern Odessa region. Investigators seized...
Rebalancing of power within the global financial system
In today’s world, access to global networks is a critical source of power, but the resulting interdependence can also generate vulnerability. The power flows from centrality: being a hub that connects all (or most) other nodes. The threat of denying access to such hubs can be a powerful sanction against bad actors. But if that power is...
Ukraine president on course for unprecedented majority after election win
Ukraine’s new president, former comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, appeared likely on Monday to become his country’s first leader since the fall of communism whose party has a parliamentary majority. Under Ukraine’s mixed election system, Zelenskiy’s Servant of the People party won by a landslide in both party list voting and...
No joke as president wins big in Ukraine elections
Ukrainians gave their comedian-turned-president Volodymyr Zelenskiy a mandate to reboot the country’s politics yesterday by handing his party a record score in parliamentary elections, exit polls showed. His Servant of the People party – named after the sitcom he starred in before his shock presidential win in April – took 43.9% of the vote...
In sluggish Russian economy, halal sees growth
The manager of a sausage factory near Moscow, Arslan Gizatullin says his halal business has been feeling the pinch — not so much from Russia’s sluggish economy but competitors vying for a piece of a growing Islamic market. Ever more producers are catering for the domestic Muslim community, which accounts for around 15% of Russia’s...
Ukraine president’s party tipped to win parliament vote
Ukrainians on Sunday went to the polls to elect a new parliament as comedian-turned-president Volodymyr Zelensky seeks to bring in political novices and consolidate his power. Zelensky’s newly-created party is expected to win the largest share of the votes in the election that should usher in a new era in the country dominated up to now by...
Two soldiers, civilian killed in east Ukraine ahead of polls
Two Ukrainian soldiers and one civilian were killed in incidents involving Kremlin-backed separatists, Kiev said Saturday, a day before the country votes in a parliamentary election. The Ukrainian army’s press secretary, Dmytro Gutsulyak, said the two soldiers were killed by sniper fire, and added that four other servicemen were injured. In...
Kiev offers to swap jailed Russia journalist for filmmaker Sentsov
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday offered to hand Moscow a detained Russian state media journalist in exchange for Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov who is behind bars in a Russian Arctic penal colony. Russia and Ukraine are in the midst of sensitive talks on a prisoner exchange following the first-ever phone call between...
Ukraine says transport organiser of missile that shot down MH-17 plane in jail
Ukraine said on Wednesday a rebel who organised the trailer carrying the missile that shot down a Malaysian airliner in 2014 had been captured two years ago and was now serving a sentence in Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot out of the sky over eastern Ukraine during a rebellion by Russian-backed...
