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Ukraine finance minister lobbies lawmakers to back debt deal
Ukraine’s finance minister was lobbying lawmakers on Wednesday to secure parliamentary support for a government debt restructuring deal which international supporters have described as critical for the country’s financial stability. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine PM urges parliament to vote ‘yes’ to debt deal
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk urged parliament on Wednesday to vote in favour of a government debt restructuring deal, saying not backing it amounted to supporting a default. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine wants Western weaponry if Minsk deal fails – official
Ukraine will renew its calls for lethal defensive weaponry from its Western allies if the Minsk peace deal fails, the country’s top official to NATO said on Tuesday, urging help to reestablish control over its eastern border with Russia. …read more Source: Channel...
Female Ukrainian pilot Savchenko to go on trial in Russia on September 22
Ukrainian military pilot Nadezhda Savchenko will go on trial in Russia on Sept. 22, her defence lawyers said on Tuesday, more than a year after she was captured by Kremlin-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine and handed over to Moscow. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia expects full, timely debt repayment from Ukraine – Finance Ministry
Russia expects from Ukraine full and timely repayment of a US$3 billion Eurobond that comes due in December, Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak said on Tuesday. …read more Source: Channel...
Germany says ‘significant progress’ made at Ukraine meeting
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after meeting his Russian, Ukrainian and French counterparts in Berlin on Saturday that “significant progress” had been made towards a resolution of the conflict between Kiev and Moscow. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia’s Putin welcomes Ukraine ceasefire
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that it was welcome that both Ukrainian armed forces and separatists in eastern Ukraine had ceased military operations, calling this the main achievement in peace efforts in Ukraine. …read more Source: Channel...
Putin grants Russian citizenship to US boxer
The Kremlin released a decree granting citizenship to Jones, who met Putin in August while visiting the Crimean city of Sevastopol. …read more Source: Channel...
Italy’s Berlusconi rubs shoulders with Putin in Crimea
Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi became the most prominent Western politician to visit Russian-annexed Crimea when he strolled beside the Black Sea on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin. …read more Source: Channel...
Poroshenko says Ukraine truce holding despite Russia ‘threat’
The Ukrainian President tells an audience of about a hundred global investors and top diplomats that they must press Russian President Vladimir Putin harder to fulfil the disputed terms of a tentative peace deal to the 17-month war. …read more Source: Channel...
