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EU envoys to discuss Russian sanctions rollover on Friday
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Envoys from the European Union’s member states should discuss rolling over EU sanctions for six months on Friday, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
Russia doubles power supplies to Crimea with second line launch
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin oversaw on Tuesday the launch of the second line of Russia’s power link to Crimea which will allow to double Russian power supplies to the peninsula to 400 megawatts. …read more Source: The...
Russian ships force Turkish vessel to change course in Black Sea
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian Black Sea corvette and a coast guard boat have forced a commercial vessel under a Turkish flag to change course after it got in the way of a Crimean energy firm’s boats towing oil rigs, the company said on Monday. …read more Source: The...
Western arms makers see sales fall, Russia rises: Sipri
STOCKHOLM: Arms manufacturers in North America and Western Europe dominated international arms sales in 2014, but their market share dropped while Russian and Asian companies saw theirs rise, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) reported Monday. Total turnover for the 100 biggest arms and military services companies...
Insight – Russia-annexed Crimea faces long road to power security
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin is trying to reassure residents of Crimea, left in the dark after electricity supplies from Ukraine were cut off, that it is coming to their rescue by installing a power link with Russia. …read more Source: The...
U.S. and Russia trade accusations at U.N. over Ukraine conflict
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States and Russia blamed each other on Friday for the continued conflict in Ukraine, with Washington accusing the Kremlin of attempting to suppress public discussion of facts about the nearly two-year-old war. …read more Source: The...
Kerry to meet Russia's Putin, Lavrov for Syria talks in Moscow
PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Syria and Ukraine, U.S. officials said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
Brawl in Ukraine parliament after MP manhandles premier
A fight erupted between dozens of lawmakers in Ukraine’s parliament on Friday after an MP picked up Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and hoisted him away from the podium as he was defending his embattled government’s record. Yatsenyuk had almost ended up his weekly questions session when a lawmaker from President Petro...
Ukraine lawmaker manhandles PM Yatseniuk in rowdy parliament scenes
KIEV (Reuters) – Fighting broke out among members of Ukraine’s ruling coalition on Friday after a member of President Petro Poroshenko’s bloc physically picked up Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk and pulled him from the podium. …read more Source: The...
Russia can't mend ties with U.S. while it backs sanctions – Lavrov
ROME (Reuters) – Russia wants to mend ties with the United States but cannot do so while Barack Obama’s administration backs economic sanctions against Moscow for its role in the conflict in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted on Thursday as saying. …read more Source: The...
