Section: Malaysia
Russia's Putin would consider meeting Obama at U.N.
SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend next month’s U.N. General Assembly in New York and would “consider constructively” any request for a meeting there with President Barack Obama, Russia’s foreign minister said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...
Russia wants Germany, France to pressure Kiev over east Ukraine peace plan
SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (Reuters) – Russia expects the leaders of Germany and France to put more pressure on Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to implement a the February peace plan for east Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...
Russian prosecutors seek to jail Ukrainian filmmaker for 23 years
MOSCOW: Russian prosecutors on Wednesday demanded that Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov be jailed for 23 years on terror charges, in a trial decried by the West. Sentsov and another Ukrainian from Crimea, Alexander Kolchenko, have been held since May 2014 are accused of setting a pro-Kremlin party office on fire and wanting to blow up a statue...
Russia jails Estonian policeman for 15 years for spying
MOSCOW: A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced an Estonian policeman to 15 years in jail on espionage charges in a move slammed by the European Union, as tensions spike over the Ukraine crisis. A court in the western Pskov region, which borders Estonia, sentenced Eston Kohver on charges of spying, weapon possession and illegally crossing the...
Ukrainian, French, German, leaders to meet Monday in Berlin
PARIS (Reuters) – The leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine are to meet in Berlin on Monday in a bid to bring an end to a new wave of violence in Ukraine, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said. …read more Source: The...
Russian police smash illegal US$30 million cheesemaking ring
MOSCOW: Russian police said Tuesday they had detained an “international criminal gang” that produced contraband cheese worth some US$30 million (RM122.21 million) using banned Western ingredients. Russian officials are currently waging war against produce from the West prohibited under a year-old embargo introduced in retaliation for...
Russia's Putin blames Kiev for increased violence in east Ukraine
SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday blamed the Ukrainian government for the latest upsurge in fighting between Kiev forces and Russia-backed rebels in east Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Fierce Ukraine clashes kill 10 as fears grow of broader fighting
The European Union and the United Nations on Monday expressed alarm over a spike in violence in east Ukraine that claimed 10 lives as Russia warned Kiev could be preparing a fresh offensive. The single day death toll is the highest in over a month as government troops and pro-Moscow rebels accuse each other of gearing up for a renewed…...
Civilians, soldiers die in east Ukraine fighting as Putin visits Crimea
KIEV (Reuters) – Fighting flared between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed rebels in separate parts of eastern Ukraine overnight, killing at least two Ukrainian soldiers and several civilians, Kiev’s military and separatist sources said on Monday. …read more Source: The...
Russia's Putin visits annexed Crimea, warns Tatars on status
OPOLZNEVOE, Crimea (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Crimea’s minority ethnic Tatars on Monday they should not strive for special status on the Black Sea peninsula Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014, stoking Cold War-like tensions between Moscow and the West. …read more Source: The...
