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Ukraine Reaches Debt Restructuring Deal
Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalie Yaresko says Kyiv has reached a debt-restructuring deal with international creditors under which part of the $18 billion debt will be written off and the rest will … …read more Source: Japan Herald...
Ukraine PM announces good financial news calls special government meeting
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk delivers a speech during a session of parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, May 19, 2015. REUTERS/Alex Kuzmin … …read more Source: Japan Herald...
Russia court jails Ukrainian filmmaker for ‘terrorism’
A Russian military court on Tuesday sentenced a Ukrainian filmmaker to 20 years in a prison colony on terror charges in a trial condemned by Kiev, Western rights groups and top film directors. Oleg Sentsov, 39, was convicted of masterminding arson attacks on pro-Kremlin party offices in Crimea after Russia seized the peninsula from Ukraine […]...
U.S. F-22 Raptors to be deployed to Europe amid NATO concerns over Russia
The United States soon will deploy F-22 Raptors in Europe, sending the stealth fighter jets to reassure NATO partners concerned about Russia’s actions in Ukraine, a Pentagon official said Monday. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James did not offer specifics about where or when the single-seat jets would be deployed, citing operational...
Kiev vows to boost forces against rebels in east, wary of ‘large-scale invasion’
Ukraine’s president vowed to increase troop numbers to fend off attacks by Russia-backed separatist rebels and warned his countrymen that there is still the threat of a “large-scale invasion,” in an impassioned speech to mark Independence Day on Monday. Speaking during a military parade, President Petro Poroshenko said Ukraine must not be...
Merkel Everything Must Be Done To Respect Ukraine Peace Deal
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says everything must be done to fully implement a cease-fire agreement in eastern Ukraine. She was speaking in Berlin on August 24 at a joint news conference in Berlin … …read more Source: Japan Herald...
Ukraine leader accuses Russia of arms supplies to rebel east
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia on Monday of sending major military backup to pro-Moscow rebels, speaking just ahead of talks on the conflict with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande. “Just this week three big convoys crossed our border toward Lugansk, Donetsk and Debaltseve,” Poroshenko...
Putin to be notable absentee at Ukraine crisis talks
The heads of Germany and France will meet Kiev’s pro-Western leader in Berlin on Monday for Ukrainian crisis talks most notable for their diplomatically-charged exclusion of Russia’s Vladimir Putin. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande have put enormous political onus on resolving Ukraine’s...
‘Putin the polite’: chilling hero of Russian souvenirs
Russian President Vladimir Putin may be in charge of an economy in crisis, but if mobile phone covers and souvenir mugs are a barometer of popularity, he need not fear for his political future. Moscow’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine last year has given memorabilia makers even more material to glorify a president whose image […] The post...
In another he-man stunt, Putin dives in mini-sub to view Crimea shipwreck
Russian President Vladimir Putin burnished his action man image on Tuesday by diving down in a mini-submarine to explore a shipwreck off the coast of the Crimea Peninsula that Moscow seized from Ukraine last year. Putin — wearing a beige pantsuit — plunged down to a depth of 83 meters seated alongside the pilot in […] The post In another he-man...
