Section: Africa&ME
Moscow shifts to tougher economic relationship with Ukraine – PM
Moving closer to the European Union offers no panacea for Ukraine’s financial problems and will mean big losses in economic ties with Moscow, Russi …read more Source: The New...
Russian FM: ‘Hopeless’ to pressure Russia on Ukraine
Lavrov discussed Ukraine and Middle-East conflicts with US counterpart Kerry on Sunday …read more Source: Anadolu...
Paris, Berlin urge Poroshenko to press ahead with reforms
Ukraine’s parliament last week approved the new government’s economic programme of tough reforms aimed at securing billions of dollars in financial aid …read more Source: World...
Russian measures fail to halt rouble’s slide
The Russian rouble dropped to a new low of almost 58 (R11) to the dollar, continuing a slide that traders said led the central bank to intervene in the market on Friday after an interest rate hike failed to break the currency’s fall. ||| Reuters and Bloomberg MoscowTHE RUSSIAN rouble dropped to a new low of almost 58 (R11) to the dollar,...
Opinion: The Perennial Story of Gulf Oil
By the time this article goes to press, oil prices will have suffered huge losses, approaching fifty per cent of their value of just five months ago. The decline in the price of a vital commodity on which some state budgets depend almost completely doubtless brings back memories of previous oil price collapses, and the great suffering of the...
German lawmaker and Russia expert Schockenhoff dies
BERLIN: German conservative lawmaker Andreas Schockenhoff, a foreign policy expert on Russia and France, has died at age 57, his party said on Sunday. Schockenhoff was deputy chairman of the parliamentary group of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and their Bavarian allies. A lawmaker since 1990, he had also coordinated...
Kerry, Lavrov Meeting Again on Ukraine Conflict
The top U.S. and Russian diplomats are meeting in Rome in a new bid to ease tensions in Ukraine, but their latest talks are complicated by U.S. legislation calling for military aid to be sent to Kyiv forces fighting pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov were...
Britain to treat wounded Ukrainian soldiers in English hospital
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said up to five Ukrainian servicemen would be given reconstructive surgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham …read more Source: World...
Kerry and Lavrov to meet as tensions soar over Ukraine
Top US diplomat John Kerry is set to meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Rome on Sunday, amid anger in Moscow over the prospect of new US sanctions and possible supply of lethal military aid to Ukraine. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Kerry, Lavrov to meet as tensions soar over Ukraine
Top US diplomat John Kerry is set to meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Rome on Dec. 14, amid anger in Moscow over the prospect of new US sanctions and possible supply of lethal military aid to Ukraine. …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
