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Ukraine PM cannot resign until new coalition agreements reached – lawmaker
The resignation of Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk is out of the question until a range of new coalition agreements is reached, Viktoria Siumar, a lawmaker in his People’s Front party said on Thursday. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine PM’s party says will discuss Groysman PM nomination
The People’s Front party of Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Thursday it was prepared to discuss nominating Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Groysman for the post of prime minister. …read more Source: Channel...
Giant arch to block Chernobyl radiation for next 100 years
In the middle of a vast exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, the world’s largest land-based moving structure has been built to prevent deadly radiation spewing from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site for the next 100 years. …read more Source: Channel...
Germany hopes for humanitarian solution for jailed Ukrainian pilot
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Wednesday he hoped a humanitarian solution could be found for Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko who was on Tuesday sentenced to 22 years in jail by a Russian court. …read more Source: Channel...
Murdered journalist buried in Ukraine 16 years after beheading
An investigative journalist whose murder 16 years ago helped precipitate Ukraine’s Orange Revolution was buried in Kiev on Tuesday after a delay due to his mother’s unwillingness to accept his decapitated body was her son. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine’s finance minister launches bid to lead technocrat government
Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko threw her hat into the ring on Tuesday to head a technocrat government of people uncompromised by “a political past” after weeks of speculation over whether she would try to replace Arseny Yatseniuk. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine’s finance minister launches bid to lead technocrat government
Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko threw her hat into the ring on Tuesday to head a technocrat government of people uncompromised by “a political past” after weeks of speculation over whether she would try to replace Arseny Yatseniuk. …read more Source: Channel...
Russian court sentences Ukraine’s Savchenko to 22 years in jail
A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko to 22 years in jail after finding her guilty of complicity in the killing of two Russian journalists during the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Channel...
Russian court finds Ukrainian pilot Savchenko guilty
A Russian court ruled on Tuesday that Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko was guilty of complicity in killing two Russian journalists and said that she will be given a custodial sentence. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine to call up 10,000 soldiers in new mobilisation drive
Ukraine’s military will call up some 10,000 men and seek volunteers to replace some of the 45,000 soldiers who are due to return home after more than a year on the front lines in the separatist east, President Petro Poroshenko said on Tuesday. …read more Source: Channel...
