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Russia to lose $40 bn a year due to sanctions Minister
Western sanctions against Russia triggered by its actions in Ukraine will cost the country’s economy $40 billion a year, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Monday. In addition, the 30 … …read more Source: Japan Herald...
Russia says it will lose $40 billion a year due to sanctions
Russia is set to lose around $40 billion per year due to Western sanctions over the Ukraine conflict, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Monday. “We are losing around $40 billion per year due to geopolitical sanctions and we are losing some $90 billion to $100 billion per year due to oil prices falling 30 percent,” […] The post Russia says it...
Nearly 1,000 killed during Ukraine cease-fire, U.N. says
Almost 1,000 people have been killed in Ukraine since a truce came into effect in September, an average of 13 people a day, the United Nations said Thursday, as the conflict in the east drags on. Meanwhile, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Kiev ahead of Friday’s anniversary of the start of the Maidan […] The post Nearly 1,000 killed...
World › Putin receives new U.S. ambassador with demand not to interfere
The new U.S. ambassador to Russia presented his credentials to President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in a ceremony at the Kremlin that politely hinted at the challenges the career diplomat will face in Moscow. With Washington and Moscow locked in their worst confrontation since the Cold War over the Ukraine… …read more Source: Japan...
Poland, Russian expel diplomats over spying
Russian and Polish officials confirmed Monday that they have carried out tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions in an espionage affair that highlights intensified efforts by Moscow to penetrate NATO counties and a new determination by the West to fight back. As tensions grow over Russia’s military incursions in Ukraine, espionage also appears to...
World › EU sanctions separatists as Ukraine crisis deepens
The EU agreed to blacklist more Ukrainian separatists Monday but stopped short of fresh sanctions against Russia, saying there was hope of restarting dialogue with Moscow to end the worst standoff since the Cold War. New European Union diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini said foreign ministers meeting in Brussels had raised… …read more...
Despite fears, little chance of Cold War return
Secret “Russian subs” off Sweden, tit-for-tat sanctions, NATO fighters scrambling to intercept Russian warplanes: relations between the West and Moscow over Ukraine have sparked incidents reminiscent of the Cold War that terrified the world for decades. Even Cold War doyen Mikhail Gorbachev used the highly symbolic 25th anniversary of the fall of...
MH17 wreckage removal starts in rebel-held east Ukraine
Workers started winching debris from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 onto trucks in eastern Ukraine Sunday, paving the way for its eventual return to the Netherlands four months after it was downed, killing 298 people. A crew from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic — the pro-Moscow separatists who hold the territory —supervised by...
New video of MH17 downing shows alarm in Ukraine village
Four months after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine, The Associated Press has obtained video that shows how close the burning passenger jet came to hitting village homes and suggests that residents first assumed it was a Ukrainian military plane that had been struck. The amateur footage, filmed by a […] The...
World › Work starts in Ukraine to collect wreckage of MH17
Workers in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine began to collect debris from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on Sunday, four months after the plane was brought down. The operation is being carried out under the supervision of Dutch investigators and officials from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in… …read more...
