Section: The Star (Malaysia)
War-weary Ukraine set to pick pro-Western parliament in election
KIEV (Reuters) – War-weary Ukrainians are set to pick a pro-Western and nationalist-leaning parliament on Sunday that should give President Petro Poroshenko a mandate to end separatist conflict in the east, but may inject new tension into ties with Russia. …read more Source: The...
On eve of poll, Ukraine leader seeks support for pro-Europe course
KIEV (Reuters) – President Petro Poroshenko called on Ukrainians on Saturday to elect a majority on Sunday that would see through a pro-Europe, reform agenda and break with the Soviet past. …read more Source: The...
French court approves Kazakh tycoon Ablyazov's extradition to Russia
LYON France (Reuters) – A French appeals court approved on Friday the extradition from France to Russia or Ukraine of jailed Kazakh tycoon Mukhtar Ablyazov, accused of embezzling up to $6 billion (3.73 billion pound) from his former bank BTA. …read more Source: The...
U.S. diplomat criticises PM Orban's Russia policies
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary should back European Union sanctions against Russia and not talk about granting autonomy for ethnic Hungarians living in Ukraine at this time of instability, an American diplomat said in Budapest on Friday. …read more Source: The...
Putin urges West to help Ukraine with funds for Russian gas
LAURA Russia (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a plea to the European Union and United States on Friday, asking them to help cash-strapped Ukraine raise funds to pay for Russian gas purchases and warning about escalation of the gas crisis. …read more Source: The...
Putin accuses United States of damaging world order
LAURA Russia (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Friday of endangering global security by imposing a “unilateral diktat” on the rest of the world and shifted blame for the Ukraine crisis onto the West. …read more Source: The...
In eastern Ukraine, parliamentary election deepens divide
NOVOTROITSKE Ukraine (Reuters) – Standing at the village polling station where she will oversee Ukraine’s parliamentary election on Sunday, Irina Sobko points across a field of wilted sunflowers to a town controlled by Russian-backed rebels where she says there won’t be any voting. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine oligarch put on the spot as rebels nibble at his empire
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – The clanging of repairs to tanks and heavy armoured vehicles rings out from a factory in eastern Ukraine that is owned by the country’s richest man but was taken over by pro-Russian rebels. …read more Source: The...
Putin says Russia helped Ukraine's Yanukovich flee
LAURA Russia (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had helped Ukraine’s former president Viktor Yanukovich to flee to Russia in February after he was toppled in violent street protests in Kiev. …read more Source: The...
Russia's Putin blames Kiev for use of force in east Ukraine
LAURA Russia (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin criticised the pro-Western government in Kiev for using force against the rebellious regions in east Ukraine rather than conducting talks with their Russian-speaking population to seek an end to the turmoil there. …read more Source: The...
