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Kiev opens politically-charged trial of Russian troops
Moscow claims the two – Captain Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Sergeant Aleksander Aleksandrov – are “volunteers”: retired servicemen who joined pro-Russian militias fighting in Ukraine’s separatist east since early last year. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia establishes seaborne lifeline for Syrian allies
The Alexandr Tkachenko, an ageing ferry with a canary-yellow hull, usually carries people across the Kerch Strait, a bustling sea route and the only connection between Russia and Crimea, the peninsula Moscow annexed from Ukraine last year. …read more Source: Channel...
Obama urges China, Russia to pursue diplomatic solutions
United States President Barack Obama delivered blunt criticisms of China and Russia at the United Nations General Assembly in New York yesterday, saying large nations had a greater obligation than small ones to engage in diplomacy and observe international laws.Speaking before Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin took...
Putin’s UN Syria show pushes Moscow back to center stage
UNITED NATIONS, United States – Russian President Vladimir Putin has stolen the spotlight at the United Nations with a swaggering push on the Syria crisis as he tried to shake off Western isolation over Ukraine.In his first speech to the UN General Assembly in a decade, Putin on Monday called for a broad UN-backed coalition to fight Islamic...
Russia to consider restrictions against Ukrainian airlines
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has given an order to the transportation ministry to consider retaliatory restrictive measures against Ukraine for banning Russian flights, the government spokeswoman Natalia Timakova said on Monday. …read more Source: Channel...
Dutch website says it will trigger referendum on EU-Ukraine ties
A Dutch website said on Sunday it had garnered enough signatures to force the Netherlands to hold a non-binding referendum on the EU’s association agreement with Ukraine, in a move meant to signal popular dissatisfaction with Dutch European policy. …read more Source: Channel...
Italy’s Berlusconi says Crimea split from Ukraine was democratic
Four-time Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Sunday the Crimean people had made a democratic choice to split from Ukraine and hailed Russian President Vladimir Putin as the world’s greatest political leader. …read more Source: Channel...
Netherlands to repatriate more MH17 bodies
The Dutch government said it would repatriate more remains of victims from last year’s MH17 air crash over Ukraine, as it prepared to publish a report into the cause. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia says will retaliate after Ukraine bans its airlines – Interfax
Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said on Friday that Russia would be forced to take retaliatory measures after Ukraine banned Russian airlines, the Interfax news agency reported. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine bans Russian airlines as part of war sanctions
Ukraine is banning flights by Russian airlines from Oct. 25 as part of a wave of sanctions against Russia over its support for separatists in the east of the country, the government said on Friday. …read more Source: Channel...
