Section: China
Russian official says no more discount gas for Ukraine
The deal to provide Ukraine with discounted gas will expire Friday, the Russian news agency TASS quoted a Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak as saying Thursday. …read more Source: China...
Ukrainian parliament accepts resignation of top prosecutor
The Ukrainian parliament Tuesday approved the long-pending resignation of the country’s Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin with 289 votes, meeting the required minimum benchmark of 226 votes, according to its website statement. …read more Source: China Internet Information...
Russia, U.S. reach some consensus on Syria, but not on bilateral ties
Russia and the United States have reached some consensus on Syria during U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit, but relations are far from thawing so long as the sanctions on Russia are not lifted. …read more Source: <a href=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-03/25/c_135223647.htm target=_blank title="Russia, U.S....
Russia, US reach some consensus on Syria
Russia and the United States have reached some consensus on Syria during U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit, but relations are far from thawing so long as the sanctions on Russia are not lifted. …read more Source: China Internet Information...
Putin hopes Kerry’s visit would narrow gaps between Russia, US
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday expressed hope that the visit of US State Secretary John Kerry will help narrow gaps in Moscow and Washington’s positions on Syria and Ukraine crises. …read more Source: China...
Ukrainian president urges formation of new government
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday requested the parliament to form a new government next week in a bid to ease the ongoing political crisis in the country. …read more Source: China Internet Information...
Giant 30,000-tonne arch will block Chernobyl radiation for next 100 years
In the middle of a vast exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, the world’s largest land-based moving structure has been built to prevent deadly radiation spewing from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site for the next 100 years. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Russia sentences Ukraine’s ‘Joan of Arc’ airwoman to 22 years in prison for murder
A Russian court has sentenced a Ukrainian helicopter navigator to 22 years in prison in a contentious murder trial that has drawn sharp condemnation from the West. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Syria and Ukraine on agenda for Kerry at Putin meeting – but Kremlin holds the upper hand
US Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Moscow this week for talks with President Vladimir Putin, hoping to build momentum for peace in Syria after a partial Russian withdrawal and to restore a fragmenting ceasefire in Ukraine. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Russian court finds Ukrainian pilot guilty of killing journalists
A Russian court has found Ukrainian army pilot Nadezhda Savchenko guilty of complicity in killing civilians, including two Russian journalists, in 2014, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Monday. …read more Source: China...
