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Radical Party rejoins Ukraine coalition
KIEV: Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk moved to shore up the ruling coalition and ease the threat of early elections after this week’s failed bid to oust him. Efforts to attract new members to the alliance appeared to pay off on Thursday as the Radical Party said it’s ready to rejoin, having left last year. Yatsenyuk courted...
Crisis deepens as Tymoshenko party quits coalition
KIEV: Ukraine’s political turmoil worsened as squabbling in the wake of a failed no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk threatened to sink the ruling coalition. Ex-Premier Yulia Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna left the four- party alliance, while fellow coalition member Samopomich boycotted Wednesday’s...
Ukraine’s political crisis deepens
KIEV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday asked embattled Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and the country’s controversial prosecutor general to resign because both had lost the public’s trust. “In order to restore trust in the government, the president asked the prosecutor general and the prime minister to quit,”...
World has slipped back into Cold War, Russia warns
Munich // The world has plunged into a “new Cold War”, the Russian premier said on Saturday, as East-West tensions over Syria and Ukraine dominated a gathering of world leaders in Germany.US Secretary of State John Kerry told the Munich Security Conference that Russia must stop targeting moderate rebels in Syria and pull its troops...
West rekindling Cold War: Russian PM
MOSCOW: Russia’s prime minister accused the West on Saturday of rekindling the Cold War, telling a meeting of top defense officials, diplomats and national leaders that sanctions imposed after the annexation of Crimea and new moves by the Nato alliance “only aggravate” tensions. The world has plunged into a “new Cold War,” the Russian...
4 killed as bus hits mine in Ukraine
MARINKA: Four people were killed on Wednesday when a passenger minibus hit a mine in eastern Ukraine during a relative calm in fighting, officials said. A reporter at the scene saw pools of blood and personal belongings of the victims scattered near a checkpoint at Marinka — a flashpoint village of about 10,000 people that witnessed heavy...
Nato sets out ways to deter Russia
BRUSSELS: Nato is ready to agree on Wednesday its boldest steps yet to deter Russia from any attack in the Baltics or eastern Europe, setting out ways to rapidly deploy air, naval and ground forces without resorting to Cold War-era military bases. In an effort to dissuade Moscow after its 2014 annexation of Crimea, Nato defence ministers are...
Former IMF chief to join Ukrainian bank
ABU DHABI, 4th February 2016 (WAM) — The former head of the International Fund, IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is joining the board of a bank owned by Ukranian billionaire, Viktor Pinchuk. …read more Source:...
The long read: From Russia with love – how Putin is winning over hearts and minds
What does the furore surrounding the alleged rape of an ethnic Russian teenager in Berlin have in common with a Moscow-linked bank’s controversial multimillion euro loan to France’s far-right National Front party? Western governments and the media have portrayed both events as two sides of the same coin: insidious examples of a new...
Poroshenko sees increased risk of open war with Russia
BERLIN: The risk of open war between Russia and Ukraine is greater than it was a year ago and Russian President Vladimir Putin has begun an “information war” against Germany, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told the German newspaper Bild. Poroshenko, who met German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Monday, said Russia had implemented...
