Section: Malaysia
EU leaders unlikely to tighten Russia sanctions at meeting next week – diplomats
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders are unlikely to tighten sanctions on Russia when they meet next week but will haggle over whether they need to act now to prolong economic sanctions on Russia expiring in July, diplomats said on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
OSCE will extend Ukraine mission one year, may expand its size
VIENNA (Reuters) – The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will extend its observer mission to Ukraine for one year, until March 2016, and may double its size to 1,000 observers, a spokeswoman said on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine central bank to tighten capital controls if needed
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s central bank is prepared to tighten capital controls if the foreign exchange market deteriorates, according to the text of a letter of intent from Kiev to the International Monetary Fund released on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine expects additional $5 billion from IMF this year – finance minister
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko said on Thursday that Kiev expects additional tranche of a new four-year International Monetary Fund programme of more than $5 billion (3.3 billion pounds) this year. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine to launch broad privatisation plan this year – Finance Minister
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko said on Thursday Ukraine would launch a drive to privatise many of the country’s 3,300 state-owned enterprises by the end of this year. …read more Source: The...
Risks to Ukraine turnaround 'exceptionally high', IMF says
LONDON (Reuters) – Efforts to restore financial stability in Ukraine face “exceptionally high” risks from further conflict and disgruntled creditors, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine to receive first IMF tranche by Friday – Finance Minister Yaresko
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko said on Thursday Kiev expected the first trance of $5 billion under a new four-year International Monetary Fund programme to be disbursed no later than Friday. …read more Source: The...
Astronauts return to Earth on Russian Soyuz spaceship
DZHEZKAZGAN: Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut on Thursday returned to Earth aboard a Soyuz space capsule after six months at the International Space Station. Yelena Serova — the first female Russian cosmonaut to have spent time on the ISS — landed along with Alexander Samokutyaev and Barry Wilmore in snowy Kazakhstan just after...
Russia holds military drills in Crimea, Georgian breakaway regions – RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has started military exercises in the country’s south, as well as in Georgia’s breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and in Crimea, annexed from Ukraine last year, news agency RIA reported on Thursday, citing Russia’s Defence Ministry. …read more Source: The...
Putin says Russia's actions in Crimea prevented conflict – RIA news agency
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said that Russia’s decisive actions in Crimea a year ago were to prevent a conflict similar to the one that followed later in east Ukraine, the state agency RIA Novosti reported on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
