Section: Africa&ME
Russia resumes gas supplies to Ukraine: Gazprom
Ukraine stopped buying Russian gas in June after crisis talks broke down …read more Source:...
Belarus re-elects ‘last dictator in Europe’ for fifth term
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko won a fifth term in office by a landslide on Sunday in an election that could see an easing of relations with the West and raise questions about his ties to Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Lukashenko’s re-election five years ago led to mass protests and the imprisonment of leading opposition...
Russia resumes gas deliveries to Ukraine
Russian gas monopoly Gazprom has resumed shipments of natural gas to its embattled neighbor Ukraine for the first time since last July, when Moscow halted deliveries over a pricing dispute with Kyiv. Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said his company had reopened the pipelines to Ukraine after receiving a prepayment of $234 million (205.3 million euros)...
‘Europe’s last dictator’ wins 5th term
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko won a fifth term in office by a landslide. ||| Minsk – Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko won a fifth term in office by a landslide on Sunday in an election that could see an easing of relations with the West and raise questions about his ties to Vladimir Putin’s Russia....
Russia’s Gazprom resumes gas supplies to Ukraine
Russian natural gas exporter Gazprom has resumed supplies to Ukraine, Chief Executive Alexei Miller said in a statement on Monday, after deliveries we …read more Source: The New...
Belarus re-elects ‘last dictator in Europe’ for fifth term
By Andrei Makhovsky Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko won a fifth term in office by a landslide on Sunday in an election that could see an easing of relations with the West and raise questions about his ties to Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Lukashenko’s re-election five years ago led to mass protests and the imprisonment of...
Russia resumes gas supplies to Ukraine
Russian gas giant Gazprom says it had resumed gas supplies to Ukraine …read more Source: World...
Russia resumes gas supplies to Ukraine: Gazprom
Russian gas giant Gazprom said Monday it had resumed gas supplies to Ukraine, adding that Moscow had received a $234 million pre-payment from Kiev …read more Source: The Daily...
Families brace for missile attack report
INTERNATIONAL investigators will release their final report into the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over war-torn Ukraine tomorrow. But the burning question of who was to blame will remain unresolved. All 298 people on board – most of them Dutch, including the 15 crew members – died when the flight between Amsterdam and Kuala...
Why Russia Needs Syria by Amy Knight | NYR Daily
Top, AFP/Getty Images; bottom, AP Photo/Sergei Chirikov, Pool Top, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev, 1980; bottom, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin, 2005 Russia’s entry into the Syrian conflict has fundamentally changed the dynamic of the four-and-a-half-year-old war...
