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EU needs years-long Russia strategy, new leader warns
New EU president Donald Tusk said the bloc needs a strategy on Russia lasting years to cope with the problems raised by its intervention in Ukraine. …read more Source: Channel...
Putin says economy will rebound after rouble’s fall, but offers no remedy
President Vladimir Putin assured Russians on Thursday that the economy will rebound after the rouble’s dramatic slide this year but offered no remedy for a deepening financial crisis. Defiant and confident at a three-hour news conference, Putin blamed the economic problems on external factors and said the crisis over Ukraine was caused by...
Politics no problem, say US and Russian spacefarers
PARIS – US-Russian ties may have returned to Cold War levels, but an astronaut and a cosmonaut gearing up for the longest flight on the International Space Station said Thursday politics would not disrupt their work of helping a future trip to Mars.NASA’s Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos are to...
Hollande: Ukraine peace talks to resume Sunday, or Monday
BRUSSELS: Peace talks between Ukraine’s leaders and Kremlin-backed rebels could take place Sunday or Monday in the Belarussian capital Minsk in the presence of Russian and OSCE envoys, French President Francois Hollande (pix) said. These talks will “happen on Sunday or Monday,” Hollande said after an EU summit on Thursday,...
Western sanctions may last for decades: Russian minister tells newspaper
Western sanctions over Russia’s role in the Ukraine crisis are likely to last “for a very long time”, possibly decades, Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev told Vedomosti newspaper.”When a U.S. law is passed it is very hard to change it afterwards – looks like it will be in place for decades,” Ulyukayev said in...
Barack Obama Says No New Sanctions for Russia Over Ukraine
US President Barack Obama said Thursday he was not about to impose new sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine crisis, but nevertheless signed a law giving him the authority to do so. …read more Source:...
Putin says Russia economy will be cured, offers no remedy
Moscow – President Vladimir Putin assured Russians on Thursday that the economy would rebound after the ruble’s dramatic slide this year but offered no remedy for a deepening financial crisis.Defiant and confident at a three-hour news conference, Putin blamed the economic problems on external factors and said the crisis over Ukraine...
EU leaders agree investment package to boost economy
BRUSSELS – European Union leaders endorsed a new investment programme intended to kick-start economic growth in the bloc at a summit in Brussels, which its chairman said would end late on Thursday, half a day earlier than planned. “We agreed three things: one, we call for the urgent establishment of a European fund for strategic...
EU leaders ready long confrontation with Russia
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders warned Moscow they were ready exercise their combined muscle over the long haul in a confrontation with an economically wounded Russia if President Vladimir Putin refused to pull back from Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Petro Poroshenko Asks Parliament to Drop Ukraine’s Neutral Status
Ukraine’s president submitted to parliament Thursday legislation enabling the ex-Soviet republic to one day join NATO and make sure the Western military alliance protects it from future Russian threat… …read more Source:...
