Section: Africa&ME
Russia backs rebel polls as Ukraine eyes new government
Moscow’s decision to lend legitimacy to the rebels’ leadership vote is an act of support for two unrecognised people’s republics. …read more Source: Gulf...
Russia to support rebel polls
Russia plans to recognise elections being organised by rebels in the restive eastern Ukraine, it said. …read more Source:...
Russia to recognize Ukraine rebel votes: Lavrov
Russia plans to recognise elections being organised next weekend by rebels in east Ukraine in defiance of the government in Kiev, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Russia will recognize Ukraine separatists’ elections: Lavrov
Russia plans to recognise elections being organised next weekend by rebels in east Ukraine in defiance of the government in Kiev, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
US Vice President Joe Biden to visit Turkey next month
US Vice President Joe Biden next month visits Ukraine as well as Turkey, where fighting across the border in the Syrian town of Kobane has sparked tensions with Washington …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Russian sanctions hurt mine magnates
Russia’s mining billionaires are starting to feel the sting of economic sanctions. ||| Yuliya Fedorinova and Alex Sazonov MoscowRussia’s mining billionaires are starting to feel the sting of economic sanctions.Mikhail Prokhorov, whose investment empire stretches from the world’s largest aluminium maker to the Brooklyn Nets...
US Ambassador Hails Ukraine’s Election as Watershed Event
Published October 28, 2014 The United States has hailed Ukraine’s parliamentary election as an important step in the country’s development. Exit polls and partial counts from the Sunday vote show an overwhelming support for pro-Western parties, giving President Petro Poroshenko a mandate to steer the country away from Russia and...
Pro-West parties win Ukraine landslide as shells fly in east
KIEV — Ukraine’s pro-Western and moderately nationalist parties were on course Monday to score a crushing election win that boosted President Petro Poroshenko’s bid to lead his country closer to Europe and end a pro-Russian revolt. A partial vote …read more Source: Saudi...
Ukraine’s pro-West parties in coalition talk
KIEV: The pro-Western winners of Ukraine’s parliamentary poll were negotiating the formation of a ruling coalition on Monday, but fighting with pro-Russian insurgents highlighted the obstacles to their promises of peace and close ties to the European Union. The day after pro-Western and moderate nationalist forces backing President Petro...
CEO of French oil giant Total killed in Moscow plane crash
MOSCOW: Russian and French experts were investigating yesterday a plane crash at a Moscow airport which killed the CEO of French oil giant Total, Christophe de Margerie, whose private jet struck a snowplough on takeoff. Russian investigators said the driver of the snow-clearing machine was drunk and that his actions, along with “an error by air...
