Section: Africa&ME
Kiev, rebels exchange POWs; trains, buses to Crimea suspended
Ukrainian authorities and separatists exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war, part of a 12-point plan aimed at ending the pro-Russian uprising in the east of the country. …read more Source: World...
Ukraine and pro-Russia rebels swap hundreds of prisoners
Ukrainian authorities and separatists exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war, part of a 12-point plan aimed at ending the pro-Russian uprising in the east of the country. …read more Source: World...
Ukraine, rebels try to revive talks
KIEV — Ukrainian and pro-Russian rebel leaders tried on Friday to revive peace talks that stalled after just one round due to stark difference over how to end the eight-month separatist war. A tense meeting mediated by European and Russian envoys in the Belarussian capital Minsk on Wednesday was due to have been followed by a final...
Ukraine, rebels try to revive peace talks
KIEV: Ukrainian and pro-Russian rebel leaders tried on Friday to revive peace talks that stalled after just one round due to stark difference over how to end the eight-month separatist war. A tense meeting mediated by European and Russian envoys in the Belarussian capital Minsk on Wednesday was due to have been followed by a final one on Friday...
Visa Stops Supporting Bank Cards in Crimea
MOSCOW—International credit and debit card company Visa Inc. said on Friday it could no longer support bank cards being used in Crimea, following U.S. sanctions imposed earlier this month. The United States last Friday prohibited U.S.-registered companies from investing in Crimea or providing services to firms operating there, among sanctions...
Ukraine s vote on non-alignment is hasty
Friday, Dec 26, 2014 Parliamentarians in Ukraine took an unprecedented vote in Kiev on Tuesday to drop the nation’s non-aligned status. It was a brave step considering that the nation has been wrenched apart by a schism echoing its long-standing… …read more Source:...
Dollar mortgage holders urge Russia to end ‘financial slavery’
When Olga Savelyeva took out a $226,000 mortgage to buy a small apartment on the outskirts of Moscow in 2008, she could never have imagined that the ruble would lose more than half its value in a few short years.But Savelyeva’s $2,090 monthly instalments have skyrocketed in ruble terms due to the Russian currency’s dive against the...
Kiev and rebels in mass prisoner exchange
Ukraine begins exchanging 225 separatists for 150 soldiers hours after peace talks fail to achieve main objectives. …read more Source: AL...
Kiev and rebels begin mass prisoner exchange
Pro-Russian rebels (L) hand Ukrainian prisoners of war to their mothers in Luhansk, Ukraine, 26 December 2014. (EPA/Yuriy Streltsov) Kiev, Reuters—Kiev and pro-Russian separatists began an exchange of hundreds of prisoners of war on Friday, a state security service source said, part of a 12-point peace plan. The agreement to swap 125 Ukrainian...
Ukraine peace talks break down
No end in sight to eight-month separatist war as negotiations aiming to reinforce truce deals gets scrapped. …read more Source: AL...
