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The announcement was made by Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow.
Russia has announced it will introduce a food embargo against Ukraine from next month over Kiev’s trade agreement with the European Union. This was stated by the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at an official meeting in Moscow. …read more Source: Radio...
Russia confirms food embargo on Ukraine: PM
MOSCOW – Russia will introduce a food embargo against Ukraine next month over Kiev’s trade deal with the EU, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Monday, extending punitive measures already in place against Western countries. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Top four newsmakers of 2015
Supporters of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi hold posters bearing her image. Looking back at the eventful year, some names stand out head and shoulders above others, and have managed to make headlines with significant contributions to the whole as a whole. Let’s meet some of the luminaries of 2015 who have shown bright as a...
Govt to include 84 more countries in free-entry policy
Foreign visitors wait at a visa-on-arrival payment counter at an airport. Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Rizal Ramli announced on Monday that the government would waive visa requirements for another 84 more countries starting this week. (Antara/Nyoman Budhiana)The government is set to waive visa requirements for another 84 countries...
Russia’s PM Medvedev orders legal action against Ukraine over debt – agencies
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday ordered its government to prepare legal action against Ukraine if it does not repay US$3 billion debt, Russian news agencies reported. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia's PM Medvedev orders legal action against Ukraine over debt – agencies
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday ordered its government to prepare legal action against Ukraine if it does not repay $3 billion debt, Russian news agencies reported. …read more Source: The...
Putin: ‘We don’t want the USSR back but no one believes us’
MOSCOW – Russia is not trying to bring back the USSR, President Vladimir Putin said in a documentary aired yesterday (Dec 20), but the problem is that “nobody wants to believe it”. Since the beginning of the Ukraine crisis, which saw pro-Russian leader Viktor… …read more Source:...
Putin: ‘We don’t want the USSR back but no one believes us’
MOSCOW: Russia is not trying to bring back the USSR, President Vladimir Putin said in a documentary aired Sunday, but the problem is that “nobody wants to believe it”. Since the beginning of the Ukraine crisis, which saw pro-Russian leader Viktor Yanukovych ousted by pro-European demonstrators, Moscow has accused the West of using “the politics...
Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Dec. 21, 2015
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas. The Week That WasTwo moves out of Washington this week marked the end of an...
Putin says will not abandon Russians in Ukraine to nationalists – RIA
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would not abandon Russians living in southeast Ukraine to Ukrainian nationalists, RIA news agency quoted him as saying in a documentary due to be broadcast later on Sunday. …read more Source: Channel...
