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      Donald Trump urges peace between Russia and Ukraine in tweet
      May12

      Donald Trump urges peace between Russia and Ukraine in tweet

      May 12, 2017 9:28 AMWASHINGTON (AFP) – Donald Trump on Thursday (May 11) urged Russia and Ukraine to “make peace,” in a tweet accompanied by two photos of the United States president posing with top diplomats from the rival countries. …read more Source: The Straits...

      Trump urges peace between Russia, Ukraine
      May12

      Trump urges peace between Russia, Ukraine

      Donald Trump on Thursday urged Russia and Ukraine to “make peace,” in a tweet accompanied by two photos of the US president posing with top diplomats from the rival countries. The post Trump urges peace between Russia, Ukraine appeared first on Inquirer News. …read more Source: The Philippine Daily...

      Eurovision 2017: All finalists known
      May12

      Eurovision 2017: All finalists known

      The second Semi-Final of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest took place in Kyiv, Ukraine. In total 18 countries competed for the remaining ten places in the Grand Final. The second Semi-Final was broadcast live from the International Exhibition Centre in Ukraine’s capital. The following ten countries qualified for the Grand Final (in the order...

      Killing Pavel
      May11

      Killing Pavel

      Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet’s reporting had challenged authorities from Minsk to Moscow and Kyiv. In a murder that shocked the world, he was killed by a car bomb in the Ukrainian capital in July 2016. …read more Source:...

      Trump urges Russia to rein in Syrian ally
      May11

      Trump urges Russia to rein in Syrian ally

      WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Donald Trump brushed aside concerns over his wooing of Russia on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) and laid on a White House welcome for Moscow’s top diplomat to seek help to end the war in Syria. As Washington reeled at the dismissal of FBI chief James Comey, who had been probing Russia’s alleged interference...

      Eurovision shines spotlight on LGBT struggle in Ukraine
      May11

      Eurovision shines spotlight on LGBT struggle in Ukraine

      KIEV: Ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest final in Kiev, an extravaganza embraced by the LGBT community, Ukraine’s “Celebrate Diversity” motto sounds more like wishful thinking than a fact of life. Weighed down by a restrictive Soviet heritage but filled with lofty European aspirations, the crisis-torn east European country...

      EU approves visa-free travel for Ukraine
      May11

      EU approves visa-free travel for Ukraine

      “It feels like coming home after a long and exhausting journey,” Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wrote on Facebook. …read more Source:...

      The expert: Under the conditions of status quo tripartite format of Karabakh negotiations does not oppose but amends the efforts of OSCE Minsk Group.
      May11

      The expert: Under the conditions of status quo tripartite format of Karabakh negotiations does not oppose but amends the efforts of OSCE Minsk Group.

      ArmInfo. During the tripartite meeting of Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian Foreign Ministers Moscow one more time accentuated own privileged status in the process of Karabakh conflict settlement. Such an opinion was stated by Russian political expert Sergey Markedonov. On April 28, at the working meeting of Armenian, Russian and Azerbaijani...

      Azerbaijani photographer wins gold medal at Ukraine competition
      May11

      Azerbaijani photographer wins gold medal at Ukraine competition

      Azerbaijan`s Dilaver Najafov has won a gold medal at the third international competition of photo correspondents in Ukraine. He secured the medal thanks to his photograph of the head coach of Azerbaijan`s national freestyle wrestling team taken at the …read more Source: Azerbaijan State News...

      EU approves visa-free travel for Ukrainians
      May11

      EU approves visa-free travel for Ukrainians

      The European Union approved visa-free travel for Ukrainians on Thursday, fulfilling a key promise to cement ties with Kiev, AFP reports. “YES, we did it!” Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wrote on Facebook after the Brussels decision, which the former Soviet republic has been trying to clinch for years. “It feels like coming home after a long...