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EU, rights activists express outrage over police brutality, arrests in Russia
MOSCOW: Foreign governments and rights activists on Sunday expressed outrage over mass arrests in Russia and the brutality with which protests were broken up on the eve of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration. The European Union slammed “police brutality and mass arrests” after nearly 1,600 protesters including opposition leader Alexei...
Putin 4.0 to launch amid crackdown on opposition
MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin will on Monday be inaugurated for his fourth Kremlin term under the shadow of hugely strained ties with the West and a crackdown on the opposition, with Alexei Navalny and hundreds more detained at the weekend. Opposition leader Navalny was held along with nearly 1,600 of his supporters on Saturday during nationwide rallies...
Russian protest leader Navalny detained at anti-Putin rally
Russian police detain opposition leader Alexei Navalny during an unsanctioned anti-Putin rally on Saturday.(AFP pic) MOSCOW: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained on Saturday at an unsanctioned rally in central Moscow, two days ahead of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration for a fourth Kremlin term. The 41-year-old protest leader...
Record heat has not yet damaged grain crop in Ukraine, forecaster says
Wheat is among Ukraine’s chief exports. (Reuters pic) KIEV: Unusually hot and dry weather across almost all Ukrainian regions has not yet damaged grain crops but there is no reason to expect a bumper harvest of early spring grains this year, a senior weather forecaster said on Thursday. Favourable weather this mild winter and early spring...
Eight Moldovans jailed for fighting with pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine
CHISINAU (Reuters) – Moldova has handed prison sentences to eight citizens for fighting on the side of pro-Russian rebels in the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, General Prosecutor Eduard Harunjen said on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine anti-corruption court can start work early 2019 – prosecutor
LONDON (Reuters) – Ukraine’s new corruption court, whose creation is a key condition set by Western aid donors, should be ready to hear its first cases early next year, General Prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko said. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine to mirror U.S. sanctions on Russian tycoons
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine has decided to expand sanctions on Russian companies and entities to mirror those of the United States, which has blacklisted tycoons and allies of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...
Sanctions force Russia to cut defense spending
Russia’s military expense last year came in at US$66.3 billion. (AFP pic) STOCKHOLM: Russia’s military spending fell sharply in 2017 for the first time since 1998 as a slew of Western economic sanctions hit government coffers hard, a closely followed review said on Wednesday. Despite soaring tensions between Moscow and the West,...
Ukraine receives U.S. Javelin systems – Poroshenko
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine has received the first U.S. Javelin missiles and launch units, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Monday. …read more Source: The...
Poland looks east to plug manpower gap
WARSAW: From behind the wheel of his new Mercedes, a Polish entrepreneur eyes the bus in front of him. It features an ad from an employment agency boasting “Builders, welders: workers from Ukraine and Bangladesh”. Speaking of the Warsaw logistics company he manages, the entrepreneur tells AFP: “Right now we mostly take on...
