Section: theSun (Malaysia)
Russia says it can override European rights court rulings
MOSCOW: Russia declared Tuesday its laws take precedence over decisions by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), a claim lawyers said could let Moscow snub Europe’s top rights tribunal. The Constitutional Court ruling comes amid Russia’s increasing isolation from the West over the Ukraine crisis, with the opposition warning...
Ukrainian pilot held in Russia faces 25 years in jail
MOSCOW: Russian investigators said Monday that a Ukrainian pilot controversially detained in Moscow faces up to 25 years in prison for her alleged involvement in the killing of two Russian journalists. Nadezhda Savchenko, Ukraine’s first female military pilot, has been accused of abetting the deaths of Russian journalists Igor Kornelyuk and...
Poroshenko faces new security crisis in western Ukraine
KIEV: President Petro Poroshenko confronted a fresh crisis Monday as a deadly standoff continued between interior ministry units and armed Ukrainian ultra-nationalists in a western enclave near Hungary. The EU-backed leader planned to convene his “military cabinet” of top generals Monday to try and diffuse tensions between two forces...
Russia opposes UN tribunal for MH17 culprits
NEW YORK: Russia said today it will oppose a draft UN resolution circulated by Malaysia on establishing an international tribunal to prosecute those behind the downing of Flight MH17 over Ukraine. Deputy UN Ambassador Petr Iliichev confirmed Moscow’s opposition to the plan, saying: “It’s not a good time and it’s...
Malaysia asks UN to set up MH17 tribunal
UNITED NATIONS: Malaysia on Wednesday circulated a draft UN resolution on establishing an international tribunal that it said would guarantee an independent trial for those behind the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine. Malaysia told the Security Council last week that it was ready to move ahead with the proposed tribunal despite resistance from...
Russia cuts off power supplies to Ukraine rebels: Kiev
KIEV: Kiev said Tuesday that Russia had cut off electricity to Ukraine’s rebel-run regions in what appears to be another sign that Moscow is losing interest in plans to splinter its neighbour. Russian President Vladimir Putin has gone through an extended spell without peppering his speeches with mentions of Novorossiya, the “New...
Russia raids homes, offices of election monitors
MOSCOW: Russian police on Tuesday raided the offices of election watchdog Golos as well as the homes of its employees, a lawyer for the group said, amid an ever-increasing crackdown on independent voices in the country. Earlier Tuesday police raided the homes of several Golos employees, including the apartment of senior executive Grigory...
IS in Afghanistan on Xi, Putin’s summit agenda
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping (pix), Russian President Vladimir Putin and other leaders will discuss the threat the Islamic State group poses in Afghanistan at a Eurasian security summit in Russia this week, a Chinese official said Monday. Xi travels to the Russian city of Ufa for a summit on Thursday and Friday of leaders of the Shanghai...
Five Ukrainian soldiers killed by landmine
KIEV: Five Ukrainian soldiers were killed when a landmine exploded in the separatist east, a military spokesman said Sunday, as clashes raged on despite a four-month truce. “Five of our soldiers died and three more were wounded as a result of a landmine explosion” some 45km from the pro-Russian rebel hub Lugansk, military spokesman...
Russia fumes at expulsion of TV reporter from Ukraine
KIEV: A new public-relations war raged Thursday between Moscow and Kiev after Ukraine deported a reporter with Russia’s Channel One television for allegedly running “destructive” stories about the crisis-torn ex-Soviet state. Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU) said it had expelled Alexandra Cherepnina for basing one of...
