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Russia's Lavrov says fighting in east Ukraine abating
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday he believed a surge in ceasefire violations in east Ukraine had passed, adding Moscow would work to prevent violence escalating again. …read more Source: The...
Armed with new law, Ukraine targets its shadowy banks
KIEV (Reuters) – For the first time in its post-Soviet history, Ukraine now has a law to prosecute bank owners who use their lenders as little more than personal piggy banks. …read more Source: The...
Truce tenuous as Ukraine leader tackles economy, oligarchs
KIEV (Reuters) – President Petro Poroshenko is using the breathing space from a ceasefire with separatists to push reforms and rein in super-rich ‘oligarchs’ whose influence he says must be curbed for Ukraine to have a future in Europe. …read more Source: The...
US starts training Ukraine forces to fight pro-Russian militants
YAVORIV: US paratroopers launched a training mission Monday for Ukrainian government forces who will fight pro-Russian separatists in the east, angering Moscow as the deadly conflict rumbles on. President Petro Poroshenko welcomed troops from the US 173rd Airborne Brigade for Operation Fearless Guardian in a rain-soaked ceremony at a military...
Norway asks Moscow to explain deputy PM's island visit despite sanctions
OSLO (Reuters) – Norway said on Sunday it has sought an explanation from Moscow for a visit to a Norwegian island by Russia’s deputy prime minister, who is banned from Norway in keeping with international sanctions against him over Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Russia’s vast Arctic gas project aims to avoid Ukraine deep freeze
SABETTA: Spread across the frozen whiteness of the Russian Arctic, the ambitious $27 billion Yamal gas megaproject aims to defy both the extreme temperatures and the Ukraine crisis impacting its funding. …read more Source: New Straits...
Obama: Europe should keep Russia sanctions until Minsk accord implemented
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said Europe needs to keep current sanctions against Russia in place until it implements an accord known as the Minsk agreement to halt the fighting in Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Australia pushes for criminal investigation
MELBOURNE: Australia will ask Ukraine for a strong criminal investigation to find and punish those responsible for the destruction of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 last July, according to The Australian newspaper. The newspaper reported that Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, who is attending a global cyber-security conference...
Ukraine says first debt proposal does not meet targets
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The first proposal by a committee that represents nearly half of Ukraine’s creditors does not help the government achieve all its targets for debt restructuring, Ukraine’s finance minister Natalia Yaresko said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine wants global court to investigate crimes in Crimea, east
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Ukraine wants the International Criminal Court to investigate all alleged war crimes in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, where it has been fighting pro-Russian rebels, foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin said in an interview, broadening an existing probe. …read more Source: The...
