Section: The Indian Express (India)
Anti-Putin protests after Boris Nemtsov killing attended by over 30,000
People carry a huge banner reading ‘those bullets for everyone of us, heroes never die!’ as they march in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov who was gunned down on Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 near the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, March 1, 2015. (AP Photo) For the tens of thousands bearing flowers and tying black ribbons to railings...
30,000 marchers in Moscow mourn slain Putin foe
People carry a huge banner reading ‘those bullets for everyone of us, heroes never die!’ as they march in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov who was gunned down on Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 near the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, March 1, 2015. (AP Photo) For the tens of thousands bearing flowers and tying black ribbons to railings...
Two killed as clashes threaten fragile Ukraine truce
Ukraine’s military told AFP that it had completed the first stage of the withdrawal by pulling back its 100-mm cannons and was waiting for the order to start moving bigger calibre weapons. Two people have been killed by shelling in east Ukraine as isolated clashes rattled a shaky truce with pro-Russian rebels and observers warned the...
Boris Nemtsov murder: President Putin vows to punish killers
Hours before the killing, he had gone on a popular radio station to urge people to join an opposition rally on Sunday calling for “an immediate end to the war in Ukraine.” (Source: AP photo) President Vladimir Putin has vowed to punish the killers of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov as Russian opposition figures denounced what they called a...
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko says troop deaths ‘serious breach’ of truce
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (Source: Reuters photo) Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has declared the killing of three government troops by pro-Moscow rebels a “serious breach of the ceasefire”, during a telephone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, her office said. “The firing by separatists on Ukrainian troops who were...
Prominent Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov shot dead
Boris Nemtsov (Source: AP photo) Boris Nemtsov, a charismatic Russian opposition leader and sharp critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down Saturday near the Kremlin, just a day before a planned protest against the government. The death of Nemtsov, a 55-year-old former deputy prime minister, ignited a fury among opposition figures who...
Russia could cut off gas to Ukraine by ‘end of week’
Putin did not give a concrete deadline for the halting of deliveries. (Source: Reuters photo) A spokesman for the Russian gas giant Gazprom says the company could cut off supplies to neighboring Ukraine by the end of the week, barring further payments. Sergei Kupriyanov said in televised remarks Thursday that “if no new funds are received from...
Ukraine claims 12 cease-fire violations overnight
Ukrainian officials say Russia-backed separatists violated a troubled cease-fire a dozen times during the night with artillery and rocket attacks and an attempt to storm a Ukrainian encampment. Explosions were heard in the main rebel-held city Donetsk around dawn on Sunday and a rebel website says several buildings in the city were damaged by...
First Ukraine war prisoner exchange completed
An Ukrainian prisoner of war leans on crutches before a prisoner exchange in Russia-backed separatist controlled territory, near Zholobok, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015. Ukrainian military and separatist representatives exchanged dozens of prisoners under cover of darkness at a remote frontline location Saturday evening. 139 Ukrainian troops...
Ukraine conflict to dominate talks as Kerry lands in London
A senior U.S. official said the Ukrainian conflict was expected to dominate the talks between Kerry and British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in London on Saturday for meetings with his British counterpart, and a senior official said they would discuss possible penalties...
