Section: The Malaysian Insider (Malaysia)
Ukraine’s PM survives no confidence vote
Ukraine’s embattled Prime Minister uk survived a no confidence vote in his government on Tuesday that came just hours after the president asked him to stand down. The motion to oust the pro-Western government leader collected only 194 of a required 226 votes in Ukraine’s 450-seat Parliament. President Petro Poroshenko had earlier...
Ukrainian PM faces possible dismissal as crisis deepens
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk was fighting for his political life today as parliament considered holding a vote of no confidence in the government over its perceived failure to fight graft. Even President Petro Poroshenko appeared to withdraw support for the 41-year-old former banker after he reportedly told his own party...
Ukraine bans Russian lorries in tit-for-tat move
Ukraine has banned Russian lorries from crossing its territory in response to a similar move by Moscow, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said today. Diplomatic and trade ties between Russia and Ukraine have broken down over Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and a pro-Russian separatist conflict, a dispute that has now hit...
Russia decries ‘new Cold War’ as East-West strains cloud talks
The world has plunged into a “new Cold War”, the Russian premier said on Saturday, as East-West tensions over Ukraine and Syria took centre-stage at a gathering of world leaders in Germany. “We have slid into a new period of Cold War,” Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told the audience at the Munich Security Conference....
IMF warns to cut Ukraine aid over corruption
The International Monetary Fund threatened to cut crucial financial aid to cash-strapped Ukraine because of the country’s “slow progress” in fighting corruption. “Without a substantial new effort to invigorate governance reforms and fight corruption, it is hard to see how the IMF-supported programme can continue and be...
4 killed as passenger bus hits mine in east Ukraine
Four people were killed today when a passenger minibus hit a mine in eastern Ukraine during a relative calm in fighting, officials said. An AFP reporter at the scene saw pools of blood and personal belongings of the victims scattered near a checkpoint at Marinka – a flashpoint village of about 10,000 people that witnessed heavy battles...
Over 180 swine flu deaths in Ukraine since September
More than 180 people have died of swine flu in Ukraine since late September, the health ministry said today, adding that three of the victims were children. The war-scarred former Soviet country has been swept by a general flu epidemic that overall has claimed 220 lives since September 28, when the first illness was recorded, the ministry…...
Ukraine wants UN Security Council to visit war zone
Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations wants to invite the Security Council to visit war-wracked eastern Ukraine in the coming months. Ambassador Volodymyr Yelchenko told reporters yesterday that “ideally” the visit to the Donetsk region would take place in the summer. The envoy said Russia was “quite...
Ukraine’s economy minister resigns over state graft
Ukraine’s economy minister abruptly tendered his resignation on Wednesday saying overwhelming corruption had stifled his efforts to push through measures essential to getting growth back on track in the cash-strapped country. Aivaras Abromavicius’s shock departure laid bare divisions within the pro-Western government of President...
Statue of controversial Bolshevik leader toppled in Ukraine
Ukrainian activists in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk on Friday night toppled a statue of controversial Bolshevik leader Grigory Petrovsky, implicated in a famine that killed millions in the 1930s, city hall said. Several young men toppled the 12-tonne bronze statue of Petrovsky – nicknamed “the butcher” for his role in the…...
