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Russian court sentences Ukrainian pilot Savchenko for allegedly killing reporters
A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced Ukrainian military pilot Nadezhda Savchenko to 22 years in prison over the killing of two journalists, a ruling that will exacerbate Moscow’s feud with Kiev and the West. Judge Leonid Stepanenko found the 34-year-old guilty of involvement in the 2014 shelling of the Russian state television reporters in...
Ukraine Pres. Poroshenko to visit Japan from April 5-7: gov’t
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Abe paves way for Russia visit by counterbalancing Ukraine
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Abe paves way for Russia visit by playing peacemaker over Ukraine
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Ukraine envoy wants Japan, U.S. to keep economic sanctions on Russia
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Unlike unsung Ukraine campaign, returning Russian pilots from Syria get hero’s welcome
A ceremonial flypast, pilots tossed in the air in celebration and dozens of cheering supporters — the first Russian warplanes on Tuesday returned home to a hero’s welcome as part of the withdrawal of armed forces from Syria. Several Su-34 strike fighters landed at an airbase outside the city of Voronezh some 580 km (360 […] The post Unlike...
Why China Is Interested in Ukraine
While many countries would like to be part of the Silk Road route, China has a strategic interest in Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
30 years after Chernobyl, food still radioactive, Greenpeace tests show
Economic crises in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus have brought reduced testing in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Greenpeace says, and people continue to eat and drink foods with dangerously high radiation levels. According to scientific tests conducted on behalf of the environmental campaigning group, overall contamination...
World › Ukrainians attack Russia embassy, demand pilot’s release
Angry protesters threw stones and eggs at the Russian embassy in Kiev Sunday, breaking several of its windows, after earlier smashing cars and throwing smoke pellets as Ukrainians’ anger boiled over at Moscow’s refusal to free a hunger-striking pilot. Hundreds of demonstrators rallied outside Moscow’s diplomatic mission to...
Kiev, Moscow agree to hold vote in east Ukraine by end July: French foreign minister
The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France agreed Thursday that elections should be held in eastern Ukraine by the end of July, France’s Jean-Marc Ayrault said. “We underlined the importance of adopting an electoral law to hold local elections by the end of the first half of 2016,” Ayrault said at the close […] The post...
