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Sink or sell? Russia standoff sees France saddled with two unused, unwanted warships
For sale: two French-built helicopter carriers, tested by Russians. Buy now for only 1.2 billion euros. Shipping extra. Tensions between the West and Russia over Ukraine have blocked a deal in which Moscow was to buy the ships, leaving Paris trying to negotiate a face-saving compromise and work out what to do with two unwanted […] The post Sink...
Russian SAM maker says jetliner was shot down by Ukrainian missile
The Russian maker of the Buk air defense missile system says it has concluded that Malaysian Airlines flight 17 was downed by an older version of the missile, which isn’t in service with the Russian military but is in Ukrainian arsenals. Mikhail Malyshevsky, an adviser to the director general of the state-controlled Almaz-Antei consortium,...
UPDATE1: Abe to visit Ukraine from Fri., attend G-7 summit in Germany
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Abe to visit Ukraine from Fri., attend G-7 summit in Germany
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Rosatom aims to be among top three nuclear players
Russian nuclear power corporation Rosatom aims to be one of the top global three players in the sector, said a senior official here, adding that the West’s sanctions on Russia have not affected it. … …read more Source: Japan Herald...
Ukraine’s minister eager for president’s Japan visit by year-end
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Ex-Georgian president named governor of Ukraine region
Former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili on Saturday was appointed governor of Ukraine’s troubled Odessa region. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko posted the appointment announcement on his website and presented Saakashvili to officials in the city of Odessa, the region’s capital. Odessa is Ukraine’s largest seaport and...
Putin getting left out of G-7 meeting, but not much else
When President Barack Obama and other world leaders gather in Germany next week, Russia’s Vladimir Putin will be left off the guest list, part of his punishment for more than a year of alleged Kremlin-supported aggression in Ukraine. But despite vows from Obama and his European counterparts to isolate Putin as long as the crisis […] The...
Russia bars 89 EU politicians over Ukraine sanctions
Moscow has released a blacklist of European Union politicians barred from Russia in response to EU sanctions over Crimea and Ukraine, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Friday. “Russia yesterday handed over a list of people to diverse EU embassies who may not enter Russia any longer,” Rutte said at a weekly news conference, […] The post...
Amid Ukraine denials, Putin orders Russian peacetime troop deaths be kept secret
President Vladimir Putin ordered on Thursday that the deaths of Russian soldiers during special operations in peacetime should be classified as a state secret, a move that comes as Moscow stands accused of sending troops to fight in eastern Ukraine. Putin, who has repeatedly denied any involvement of Russian troops in a pro-Russian separatist...
