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The price Kiev must pay for IMF rescue: tackling vested interests
KIEV (Reuters) – With the first billions of dollars foreign aid in its pocket, Ukraine’s government can now stay afloat long enough to embark on its radical reform drive, but the hard part is only just beginning. …read more Source: The...
Russia drops charges against woman accused of treason over Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has dropped treason charges against an activist accused of phoning the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow last year to warn that Russian solders might be heading to eastern Ukraine, her lawyer said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
Bulgaria, United States to start military drills amid Ukraine crisis
SOFIA (Reuters) – NATO allies Bulgaria and the United States will stage a series of joint military drills over the next three and a half months, the Bulgarian defence ministry said on Friday, amid increased tensions with Russia over the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: The...
Slovak PM: Sanctions against Russia would not help Ukraine ceasefire
PRAGUE (Reuters) – New or extended European Union sanctions against Russia would not help the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Friday, though he added he would not go against the bloc’s consensus. …read more Source: The...
EU energy chief: still no confirmed date for Ukraine-Russia gas talks
STRBSKE PLESO, Slovakia (Reuters) – The European Union has yet to receive confirmation that Ukraine and Russia will meet on March 20 to discuss gas supplies, the bloc’s Energy Commissioner Maros Sefcovic said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
No EU unanimity on renewing Russia economic sanctions – official
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s 28 governments have not reached an agreement on renewing economic sanctions on Russia that expire in July, a senior EU official said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine has received first tranche of $5 billion from IMF – central bank
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine has received a first tranche of $5 billion (3.36 billion pounds) from the International Monetary Fund under a new four-year financing package worth a total of $17.5 billion, a central bank spokesman said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
China building second aircraft carrier
China is building its second aircraft carrier, a senior naval officer has told media, the most explicit confirmation yet of a widely expected move that will boost Beijing’s maritime power. China’s first aircraft carrier was a 300-metre Soviet-era vessel bought from Ukraine and commissioned in September 2012, at the time a milestone...
From ‘Red October’ village, new evidence on downing of MH17
CHERVONYI ZHOVTEN, UKRAINE: Villagers in eastern Ukraine have told Reuters they saw a missile flying directly overhead just before a Malaysian airliner was shot out of the sky on July 17 last year, providing the most detailed accounts to date that suggest it was fired from territory held by pro-Russian rebels. The accounts from four villagers of...
Third ally of ousted Ukraine leader Yanukovych found dead
A key ally of former Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych was found dead after an apparent suicide yesterday in the third such case in two weeks. Police said Oleksandr Peklushenko, former governor of the eastern industrial region of Zaporizhzhya, was found dead in his country home after suffering a fatal gunshot wound to the neck. “A…...
