Section: China
Foretelling future prospects of Sino-Russian cooperation
Geo-political and global economic analysts have widely discussed Russia’s “Turn to the Far East” policy in recent months. Yet, it is worth knowing that Moscow had already touted this initiative a few years ago even before the onset of the Ukrainian crisis. …read more Source:...
NATO deals with security challenges in Ukraine, Syria
NATO top commanders meet here Friday to discuss security challenges in Ukraine and Syria as tension is mounting between the rivals over the crisis. …read more Source:...
NATO not considering sending troops to Ukraine: official
NATO is not considering the issue of sending its troops to the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine, a senior alliance’ s official said Friday. …read more Source: Global...
Ukraine reports first shooting-free day since start of conflict
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said here Friday that a truce between his government’ s troops and independence-seeking insurgents has resulted in the first day free of shooting since the conflict in eastern regions erupted in April 2014. …read more Source: Global...
Ukraine, Slovakia PMs blast Nord Stream capacity expansion
Visiting Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico on Thursday blasted the announced expanding of transport capacity of the Nord Stream gas pipeline as an “anti-Ukrainian” and “anti-European” project. …read more Source: Global...
Children in east Ukraine suffer conflict-related stress: OSCE
The violent conflict in eastern Ukraine, which has been raging for 17 months, has inflicted heavy trauma on children living in restive areas, a senior official from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said here Thursday. …read more Source:...
Leaders from EU, Russia, Ukraine to meet in Paris in Oct
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will meet along with the French and German leaders in Paris early in October to discuss efforts to resolve the Ukrainian conflict, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. …read more Source: China...
Ukraine says nine-day truce holding despite soldiers’ death
Ukraine’s army said on Wednesday that a new nine-day truce with insurgents was holding despite small skirmishes that claimed the lives of two government soldiers this week. …read more Source: Global...
Almost 8,000 dead in Ukraine since April 2014: report
A United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine report revealed on Tuesday that nearly 8,000 people have lost their lives in Eastern Ukraine since the conflict began in mid-April 2014, while a recent upsurge in violence has further increased the death toll. …read more Source: <a...
NATO head to make first visit to Ukraine
NATO head Jens Stoltenberg will make his first visit to Ukraine later this month, Kiev’s foreign minister said on Monday, as efforts to solve the conflict between rebels and government forces pick up pace. …read more Source: Global...
