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Highlights: Putin delivers keynote speech on economy, Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Here are quotes from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual state of the union speech to members of parliament and other top officials in the Kremlin on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
Putin says Russia wants cooperation with the West
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday Russia would not choose the path of isolation and would continue to cooperate with the United States and Europe, despite the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: The...
Putin says Russia's Ukraine policy is right
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that events in Ukraine showed that Russia’s policy was right and accused the West of cynicism in its handling of the crisis. …read more Source: The...
Fleeing war and crumbling economy, Ukrainians flock to Europe
LONDON (Reuters) – Andriy left his home town in western Ukraine earlier this year on a journey that brought him through the hands of shady traders in Poland to one of the world’s booming markets for illegal immigrants – London. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine to hold talks with IMF soon – Finance Minister
KIEV (Reuters) – Talks between Ukraine and the IMF on the much-needed next tranche of financial aid should take place as soon as possible, the Ukrainian finance minister said on Wednesday, speaking alongside two other newly appointed foreign-born ministers. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine energy minister says 'no threat' from accident at nuclear plant
KIEV (Reuters) – An accident at a nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhya in southeastern Ukraine poses no danger to health or the environment, energy authorities said on Wednesday, an assessment later corroborated by the French nuclear institute IRSN. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine tells IAEA reactor safely shut down
VIENNA (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear agency said on Wednesday it had been told by Ukraine that a reactor at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant remained safely shut down following a short circuit in the plant’s transformer yard last week. …read more Source: The...
Psychiatric patients struggle to get through Ukraine conflict
SLOVYANOSERBSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Anna Tsvirinko takes her hand out of the jacket she is wearing over her nurse’s uniform to keep warm and points at a dirty mattress in the unheated ward of the Ukrainian psychiatric hospital where she works. …read more Source: The...
No radioactivity detected in Ukraine after nuclear event – French agency
PARIS (Reuters) – French public nuclear safety institute IRSN said on Wednesday it had not detected any unusual radioactivity in Ukraine and that the incident at a nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhya posed no danger for populations or the environment. …read more Source: The...
Ukrainian PM reports accident at nuclear power plant
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Wednesday an accident had occurred at the Zaporizhye nuclear power plant (NPP) in south-east Ukraine and called on the energy minister to hold a news conference. …read more Source: The...
