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Russia detains four suspects over Nemtsov killing
Moscow (AFP) – Four men were in custody Sunday for the killing of Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov in a probe which has yet to reveal the motive for the brazen assassination in the centre of Moscow.The suspects, from Chechnya in the volatile northern Caucasus region, were detained a little over a week after Nemtsov, a longtime...
Russia holds two more suspects over Nemtsov killing
MOSCOW (AFP) – Russian police have arrested another two men over the killing of opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down in the centre of Moscow, state media reported Sunday, bringing the number held to four.Albert Barakhoyev, secretary of the Security Council of Russian republic of Ingushetia told state news agency RIA...
Sweetening gloomy Russia, one chocolate bar at a time
MOSCOW (AFP) – When days are dark, friends are few and the state of your bank account makes you want to weep, there is only one thing you can do in bleak, crisis-hit Russia.Keep calm and eat some very expensive chocolate.That was the message from artisanal chocolatiers in Moscow who attended this past week the capitals first chocolate fair...
Boom in journalist drone use flies into legal obstacles
PARIS (AFP) – Flying over the flaming barricades of the Maidan protests in Kiev, the camps of Auschwitz or hurtling down a ski slope — drones have become a vital tool for cameramen, but they are increasingly running into legal and practical obstacles.Many news networks such as the BBC, Russia Today and Frances TF1 have bought their...
Pro-Russian rebels claim withdrawal of heavy weapons from East Ukraine
SNIZHNE, Ukraine: Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine claimed on Saturday to have completed their end of a February deal with government forces to w …read more Source: The News...
EU shows little appetite for more Russia sanctions
EU foreign ministers showed little appetite on Saturday for stepping up pressure on Russia over Ukraine, preferring to give a fragile ceasefire a chance before deciding whether to apply more sanctions or even to extend existing ones. Most ministers at an EU meeting in the Latvian capital pinned their hopes on the latest Minsk agreement succeeding...
In EU foreign policy, strength through unity hard to come by
RIGA, Latvia: (AP) – It was enough even for the normally unflappable European Union President Donald Tusk to start losing his cool. He stuttered, staggered his sentences, as he assessed what Russian President Vladimir Putin was doing to the EUs brittle sense of unity.One of the most important goals for President Putin today is to divide...
Russia arrests 2 over Nemtsov’s killing
MOSCOW (AFP) – Two suspects have been arrested over the killing of Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned downlast week near the Kremlin in a brazen assassination that shocked the country, the state security agency said Saturday.Two suspects were arrested today in connection with this crime, they are Anzor Gubashev and...
Russia arrests two over Nemtsov killing
MOSCOW (AFP) – Two suspects have been arrested over the killing of Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down near the Kremlin in a brazen assassination that shocked the country, the state security agency said Saturday.The arrests come a week after the longtime critic of President Vladimir Putin was shot four times in...
OSCE head says Ukraine Ceasefire Holding
The ceasefire in eastern Ukraine is holding and overall hostilities have dropped, the head of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said. Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe “My assessment is that the ceasefire is, all in all, holding, but there are violations,” Lamberto Zannier told Reuters in an...
