Section: Africa&ME
Ukraine President's Party Leads Poll Ahead of July Election
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A party set up by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who took office last month, continues to lead in an opinion poll published on Wednesday ahead of a snap parliamentary election due on July 21. …read more Source: Tasnim News...
Ukraine livid as rights assembly lets Russia return
Ukraine yesterday expressed anger at its Western partners after lawmakers at the Council of Europe agreed to allow Russian representatives back following a five year absence prompted by Moscow’s annexation of Crimea. Russian delegates had been stripped of their voting rights in the pan-European rights body in 2014 after Russia annexed...
Facebook expands rules on political ads to Canada and Ukraine
…read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Council of Europe assembly allows Russia’s return
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) agreed early Tuesday to allow Russian representatives to return to the body, five years after it was stripped of its voting rights over Crimea’s reunification with Russia after a referendum in March 2014. …read more Source: Iran...
Council of Europe readmits Russia, five years after suspension over Crimea
Europe’s main human rights forum Tuesday approved Russia’s readmission, the first time that an international sanction imposed for its seizure of Crimea in 2014 has been reversed, despite a stalling protest from Ukraine and Georgia. …read more Source: The Daily...
News24.com | Council of Europe assembly authorises Russia’s return
The Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly has agreed to allow Russian representatives to return to the body, five years after it was stripped of its voting rights over the annexation of Crimea. …read more Source:...
Dirty oil crisis over for Russia, but contagion felt on high seas
In the opinion of Russian officials, the oil contamination crisis that disrupted flows from the world’s second-largest exporter of crude this spring is long over, Reuters reports.But a closer look at a dozen tankers containing dirty Russian oil suggests that for the buyers, the debacle has a long way to run and will cost them hundreds of...
News24.com | WATCH: War veterans join gay pride march
War veterans in fatigues joined more than 8 000 people marching in Kiev’s Gay Pride parade amid tight security. …read more Source:...
Freddies Corner Boss Grabs Doctorate Degree
THE VINNYTSIA State Pedagogical University of Ukraine is scheduled to confer an Honorary Doctorate Degree on Alfred Korlie Matey, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Freddies Corner, a phones dealership firm. Come July 6, 2019, the Doctor of Philosophy (Honorary Degree) would be presented to Mr. Korlie Matey at a ceremony to be held …...
NIS 400 for 40 minutes: 5 Israelis charged with running prostitution ring
The young couple at the helm of the illegal business rented at least 20 apartments across the cities of Ashdod and Bat Yam where they employed women, predominantly from Russia and Ukraine, some of who had been tricked into leaving their home-country and coming to Israel …read more Source: Yedioth...
