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Putin describes meeting to take Crimea before referendum
MOSCOW: (AP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has described a secret meeting with officials last year when Russia decided it would take Crimea, the Black Sea region that Moscow annexed from Ukraine last March.In a trailer for an upcoming documentary, shown on state-owned television late Sunday, Putin said that he met with security...
International expansion weighs on profit of supermarket group Auchan
PARIS (AFP) – Auchan said Monday its net profit fell by a quarter last year despite rising sales as its international expansion weighed on the bottom line of the France-based supermarket group.Net profit fell by 25.2 percent to 574 million euros ($624 million).Meanwhile, sales stripped of taxes rose by 14.7 percent at constant exchange...
Obama Vs Putin on Crimea
WASHINGTON- Things are now getting personal. By upping the wager with his warning to isolate Russia with consents over Crimea, Barack Obama imperils setting off a rotation of confrontation with Vladimir Putin. (Source: DN) And regardless of his unwillingness to play Cold War-style chess with the Russian president, deterioration into a new great...
Obama: Vladimir Putin ‘not fooling anybody’ over Ukraine
KIEV – US President Barack Obama on Tuesday said Russia was not “fooling anybody” over the calamity in Ukraine after Vladimir Putin refused that Russian forces were functioning on the inferno Black Sea peninsula of Crimea. (Source: DN) In a display of backing for the new provisional leaders in Kiev, visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry...
Russia and China in conformity on Ukraine
Moscow- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov talked over Ukraine with his Chinese equivalent, Wang Yi, on Monday and their opinions overlapped on the condition there. The Russian Foreign Ministry said the two veto-wielding UN Security Council members would stay in close interaction on the issue, Reuters reported. (Source: RT) …read more...
Survey- Above 70% of Russians against intrusion in Ukraine
According to a survey conducted by VTsIOM in 42 regions, seventy three percent of Russians consider Moscow should not intervene in the clash in Ukraine. Only 15 percent of those surveyed think this is doable, Interfax reported. Ninety four percent of respondents do not want the Ukrainian picture to be replicated in Russia. The survey was...
Ukraine president, opposition sign deal to end crisis
KIEV- Ukraine’s besieged leader signed an agreement Friday with the opposition in an attempt to end the ex-Soviet country’s wickedest crisis since independence after three days of bloodshed left nearly 100 strikers dead. (Source: RT) But President Viktor Yanukovych’s verdict to hold early elections and form a unity government...
Chechen confesses involvement in murder of Russia’s Nemtsov
Moscow (AFP) – A Russian court on Sunday charged two men with the murder of opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, including a former police officer from Chechnya who confessed to his involvement in what investigators said was a contract killing.Four others denied any connection to the killing of Nemtsov, who was shot four times in the back on...
Chechnya policeman confesses involvement in Nemtsov murder: Russian court
MOSCOW (AFP) – A Russian court on Sunday charged two men with the murder of opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, including an ex-police officer from Chechnya who confessed to his involvement in what investigators said was a contract killing.Four other suspects have denied connection to the February 27 killing of Nemtsov who was shot four...
Russian court charges 2, detains 3 others in Nemtsov killing
MOSCOW: (AP) – A Russian court on Sunday charged two men in the killing of leading opposition figure Boris Nemtsov and ordered three other suspects to remain in jail pending a decision on whether to file charges.Russian news agencies said one of those charged has admitted involvement in the crime.Judge Nataliya Mushnikova said that Zaur...
