Section: The Star (Malaysia)
Latvia heads to election under shadow of assertive Russia
RIGA (Reuters) – Latvians look likely to back their hawkish centre-right ruling coalition in a parliamentary election on Saturday amid increased tensions with giant neighbour Russia, Riga’s communist-era ruler, over the Ukraine crisis …read more Source: The...
Putin says he hopes election will bring Ukraine stability
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said he hoped Ukraine’s parliamentary election on Oct. 26 would help bring stability to country. …read more Source: The...
Russia's Putin pledges help to sanctions-hit companies, banks
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the government would help companies hit by Western sanctions over Ukraine and that it would increase the capital of domestic banks. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine energy minister, Oettinger to meet over Russia gas talks
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuri Prodan is scheduled to meet European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger on Thursday in an attempt to work out a date and venue for the next round of talks with Russia aimed at resolving a gas crisis. …read more Source: The...
Merkel tells Putin Moscow has duty to temper separatists in Ukraine
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Wednesday that Moscow had a duty to temper pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine, a spokesman for the German government said. …read more Source: The...
NATO's new leader says Russia can still destabilise Ukraine
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The ceasefire in Ukraine offers an opportunity but Russia still has the power to destabilise the country, NATO’s new Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...
Russia says barred EU lawmaker is on Moscow's sanctions blacklist
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday it had barred entry to a German member of the European Parliament because her name is on a blacklist of officials who had a role in imposing sanctions on Moscow over Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
At least 10 people killed in shelling on and near school in east Ukraine
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – At least 10 people were killed on Wednesday when shells hit a school playground and a mini-van in a nearby street in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, city authorities and Reuters witnesses said. …read more Source: The...
Only Ukraine and EU can change trade deal, Barroso tells Putin
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – An EU-Ukraine trade deal at the centre of tensions between Russia and the West can only be changed by Brussels and Kiev, the head of the European Commission told Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in a letter on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...
Shells hit school playground and nearby street in Ukraine city, four killed – eyewitnesses
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Shells hit a school playground and a nearby street in the city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, killing four people including a teacher and a parent, witnesses said. …read more Source: The...
