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EU blacklists nine over rebel Ukraine vote but signals no new Russia sanctions
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union on Monday blacklisted nine people involved in rebel elections in east Ukraine last month but signalled no further punitive measures against Moscow over the latest flare-up of tensions with Kiev in the Azov Sea. …read more Source: The...
Activists from Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Georgia denied access to Poland for UN climate talks
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Kazakh ‘#Explorestan’ tourism branding seeks to take sting out of ‘Stan’
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s tourism brand was presented to the general public Dec. 7 at Astana’s Travel Media Talks international forum and will soon be submitted for state approval. Rashid Kuzembayev. Photo credit: Kazakh Tourism Facebook Page. Tourism...
Arms race to start if deals like INF abandoned: Milos
BLAGOVESHCHENSK (Sputnik): Czech President Milos Zeman believes that there is a solution for the Russian-US standoff around the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. “If there are technical characteristics of these missiles that violate this agreement either from the Russian or from the US side, it’s very simple to show these...
Ukraine says will send naval ships through Kerch Strait soon
Volunteers with the right-wing paramilitary Azov National Corps attend a rally against Russia in front of the Ukrainian President’s office in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 7. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)Minsk, Belarus (AP) — Ukraine’s defense ministry warned Russia on Friday that it will soon send navy ships through the Kerch Strait where...
Turnout in Armenian parliamentary elections comparable to that in Switzerland, it only remains to equate living standards
ArmInfo.Armenia is close to Swiss electoral standards. All that is left to do is to equate standards of living. According to the summary table for the national elections in the EU / EFTA countries, the lowest voter turnout is usually recorded in the most prosperous Switzerland. Thus, in the latest parliamentary elections in Switzerland in 2015,...
Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Russian champion of human rights, dies at 91
Human rights defender Lyudmila Alexeyeva. (AFP pic)MOSCOW: Lyudmila Alexeyeva, who headed the oldest Russian human-rights organisation and was a driving force behind the civil-rights movement in the Soviet Union, has died. She died Saturday night at a Moscow hospital, according to a statement from the Human Rights Council under Russia’s...
Iran seeks regional front against US ‘economic terrorism’
Hassan Rouhani TEHRAN: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said US sanctions were ‘economic terrorism’, as he sought to foster a united front from visiting regional officials yesterday. Addressing parliament speakers from Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, Russia and Turkey, Rouhani said they had all suffered economic pressure from the US. “We...
Canada to allocate 2,5 million dollars to Ukraine for fighting Russia’s propaganda
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Russia ready to discuss fate of detained Ukrainian sailors after their trial
MILAN (Reuters): Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that Moscow would only be ready to discuss the fate of a group of Ukrainian sailors it captured last month after their trial was finished. The United States and the European Union have called on Russia to free the 24 Ukrainian sailors who were detained by Russia on Nov. 25...
