Section: The Star (Malaysia)
Murdered journalist buried in Ukraine 16 years after beheading
KIEV (Reuters) – An investigative journalist whose murder 16 years ago helped precipitate Ukraine’s Orange Revolution was buried in Kiev on Tuesday after a delay due to his mother’s unwillingness to accept his decapitated body was her son. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine's finance minister says ready to lead technocrat government
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko threw her hat into the ring on Tuesday to head a technocrat government of people uncompromised by “a political past” after weeks of speculation over whether she would try to replace Arseny Yatseniuk. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine's finance minister says ready to lead technocrat government
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko said on Tuesday that she was ready to form a government of technocrats that would be free from the influence of politicians and oligarchs. …read more Source: The...
Only Putin can decide whether to trade jailed pilot with Ukraine – Ifax
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Only President Vladimir Putin can decide whether Russia will trade convicted Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko with Kiev, the Interfax news agency cited the Kremlin as saying on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine's Poroshenko condemns Savchenko 'kangaroo court'
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine will never recognise the sentencing of Nadezhda Savchenko by a Russian “kangaroo court”, President Petro Poroshenko said on Tuesday after the Ukrainian pilot was handed a 22-year jail sentence. …read more Source: The...
Russian court finds Ukrainian pilot Savchenko guilty
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court ruled on Tuesday that Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko was guilty of complicity in killing two Russian journalists and said that she will be given a custodial sentence. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine to call up 10,000 soldiers in new mobilisation drive
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military will call up some 10,000 men and seek volunteers to replace some of the 45,000 soldiers who are due to return home after more than a year on the front lines in the separatist east, President Petro Poroshenko said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
Russian court: Ukrainian pilot Savchenko guilty of killing reporters – agencies
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court on Monday found Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko guilty of complicity in the killing of two Russian journalists, Russian news agencies reported. …read more Source: The...
Exclusive – Assets seizure is attempt to hide Kiev's failings: Ukraine's Yanukovich
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich said on Friday Kiev’s new government was trying to obscure its failings by pushing through a law to confiscate his alleged offshore assets. …read more Source: The...
Two years after annexation, Putin seeks to bind Crimea by bridge to Russia
Tuzla Island, CRIMEA (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin, marking the anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, on Friday exhorted workers building a bridge between the Black Sea peninsula and Russia to fulfil an “historic mission” first conceived by a Russian tsar. …read more Source: The...
