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Silencing of Crimean Tatar TV sparks outcry from rights bodies, Ukraine, Turkey
KIEV (Reuters) – The silencing of a TV station for the Tatar people in Crimea, annexed by Russia from Ukraine a year ago, sparked an outcry on Friday, with Kiev accusing Moscow of trying to stamp out non-Russian influence on the peninsula. …read more Source: The...
Moscow condemns 'anti-Russian campaign' in U.S
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia expressed outrage on Friday over a “frenzied anti-Russian campaign” by U.S. media and political analysts, stepping up a war of words that has intensified during the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: The...
Russia, Greece to discuss EU sanctions, economy in Moscow
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras plan to discuss economic ties and the European Union’s sanctions against Moscow when they meet for talks next week, a Kremlin spokesman said today. Russia wants the EU to lift the sanctions imposed over Moscow’s role in the turmoil in Ukraine and hopes to get...
Russia, Greece to discuss EU sanctions, economy in Moscow
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras plan to discuss economic ties and the European Union’s sanctions against Moscow when they meet for talks next week, a Kremlin spokesman said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
West’s ties with Russia frozen after year of Ukraine conflict
Relations between the West and Russia remain at their lowest ebb since the Cold War on the first anniversary of the start of the eastern Ukraine conflict, but all bridges have not yet been burned, analysts say. Washington and Brussels have imposed sanctions as part of a sea change in ties with Moscow, while a defiant Vladimir Putin has…...
54 dead in trawler sinking off Russia’s Far East
A man looks at a computer screen displaying a photo that shows a trawler the same type as the Dalmy Vostok in Moscow. (Inset) Russian Emergencies Ministry member uses a radio during a rescue operation Dalniy Vostok sank off the coast of Kamchatka, in a helicopter off the Sea of Okhotsk. – Reuters photos MOSCOW: At least 54 sailors have died and...
Ukraine, rebels discuss broadening weapons withdrawal – aide
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine, Russia and Russian-backed separatists are discussing prospects for extending a pull-back of weapons in east Ukraine to include tanks and smaller weapons systems, a press aide to Kiev’s representative at peace talks said on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
Dozens dead as Russian trawler sinks off Kamchatka
A Russian freezer trawler with an international crew of 132 sank early Thursday morning in the Sea of Okhotsk off of the Kamchatka Peninsula and at least 54 crew members were killed, rescue workers said. Sixty-three of the 132 people on board the Dalniy Vostok were rescued with the sea’s temperature near zero degrees, Viktor Klepikov,...
At least 54 dead in trawler sinking off Russia’s Far East
MOSCOW: At least 54 sailors have died and 15 others are still missing after a trawler with 132 people on board sank Wednesday night in the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia’s Far East, Russian media said. “We have recovered the bodies of 54 victims. Sixty-three crew members have been rescued alive,” Russian news agency Tass reported,...
54 dead, 15 missing after trawler sinks off Kamchatka Peninsula
VLADIVOSTOK: The death toll from a fishing freezer trawler that sank off Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula Thursday morning has reached 54, Xinhua news agency reports citing local media. Artur Rets, head of rescue centre at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky port, said 63 people had been rescued and 15 remained missing, said Russia Today. The trawler had...
