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Russia not prepared to discuss restructuring Ukraine debt – Russian FinMin
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Friday Russia was not prepared to discuss restructuring its $3 billion (2.01 billion pounds) holding of Ukrainian debt and considered itself to be an official rather than a private creditor. …read more Source: The...
London or Paris: which is the club for Russia's Ukraine debt?
LONDON (Reuters) – A legal conundrum is threatening plans to ease Ukraine’s debt burden and possibly its entire $40 billion (26.88 billion pounds) IMF-led bailout: should a $3 billion Eurobond held by Russia be classed as bilateral sovereign debt or a plain vanilla bond? …read more Source: The...
Syria's Assad says West wants to weaken Russia
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has accused the West of trying to weaken Russia by turning Ukraine into a puppet state, a tactic he said had also been used against his own country. …read more Source: The...
Exclusive – West holds off on Ukraine aid pledges, seeking reforms
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – International lenders are delaying plans to offer Ukraine billions of dollars on concerns Kiev cannot yet prove the cash will not vanish into a corrupt economy which EU officials fear could remain a “bottomless pit”. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine arrests officials on live TV
KIEV: Ukraine on Wednesday dramatically arrested two top officials on graft charges at a televised cabinet meeting hours after the president sacked a powerful oligarch as regional governor. The unexpected shake-up came as the beleaguered authorities, already struggling to combat pro-Russian separatists in the country’s east, tried to make...
Passenger bus hits landmine in east Ukraine, four dead
KIEV: Four people were killed and 21 injured when a passenger bus hit a landmine near a government-controlled town in eastern Ukraine, local officials said Thursday. The bus had taken a side road in order to avoid a government checkpoint near the town of Artemivsk, some 50km north of the separatist stronghold of Donetsk, late Wednesday, said Ilia...
Bus hits landmine, 4 dead, 21 injured
KIEV: Four people were killed and 21 injured when a passenger bus hit a landmine near a government-controlled town in eastern Ukraine, local officials said today. …read more Source: New Straits...
Moscow could reignite Ukraine fighting: US diplomat
Washington: The United States fears that Moscow and pro-Russian separatists will reignite the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine following a February ceasefire that has largely held, a US diplomat warned Wednesday. …read more Source: New Straits...
Ukraine arrests officials on live TV, sacks powerful oligarch
KIEV: Ukraine on Wednesday dramatically arrested two top officials on graft charges at a televised cabinet meeting hours after the president sacked a powerful oligarch as regional governor. The unexpected shake-up came as the beleaguered authorities, already struggling to combat pro-Russian separatists in the country’s east, tried to make...
Ukraine arrests officials on live TV, sacks powerful oligarch
Ukraine on Wednesday dramatically arrested two top officials on graft charges at a televised cabinet meeting hours after the president sacked a powerful oligarch as regional governor. The unexpected shake-up came as the beleaguered authorities, already struggling to combat pro-Russian separatists in the country’s east, tried to make good...
