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Ukraine, pro-Russian rebels announce Dec 9 truce
President Petro Poroshenko said the terms of the new ceasefire were already included in an earlier peace deal agreed with the help of European representatives in the Belarussian capital Minsk on September. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine, pro-Russia rebels announce Dec 9 truce
President Petro Poroshenko said the terms of the new ceasefire were already included in an earlier peace deal agreed with the help of European representatives in the Belarussian capital Minsk on September. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine and rebels announce Dec 9 ceasefire
President Petro Poroshenko said the terms of the new ceasefire were already included in an earlier peace deal agreed with the help of European representatives in the Belarussian capital Minsk on September. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia is ‘strategic problem’ for EU: Juncker
Russia is now a “strategic problem” for the EU amid the crisis in Ukraine, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said on Thursday (Dec 4), but he insisted Brussels would not be blackmailed by the cancellation of a huge gas pipeline. …read more Source: Channel...
Putin says foes hope to dismember Russia
MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin accused Russia’s enemies on Thursday of seeking to carve it up and destroy its economy to punish it for becoming strong, but said his country would rise to any challenge.In a fiercely patriotic state of the union speech, the Kremlin leader trumpeted his annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula,...
Putin says Russia wants cooperation with the West
MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday Russia would not choose the path of isolation and would continue to cooperate with the United States and Europe, despite the Ukraine crisis.In a state of the union speech, he said Western sanctions imposed during the crisis offered a stimulus for Russian business and that Russia remained...
Putin says Russia’s enemies seek its downfall
Putin says foes hope to dismember Russia; rouble falls as he speaksMOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin accused Russia’s enemies on Thursday of seeking to carve it up and destroy its economy to punish it for growing strong, in an annual state of the union speech that seemed to outdo even his own recent strident nationalism.The Kremlin...
Putin orders cash from Russia’s wealth fund to be used to support banks
MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that money collected in one of the country’s two “rainy day” funds should be used for supporting domestic banks, as part of broader efforts to help Moscow to overcome its economic woes.Broadly shut out of external funding due to western sanctions over...
Kerry urges Russia not to isolate itself ‘through its own actions’
US Secretary of State called on Russia to help halt the ongoing military crisis in eastern Ukraine as a way to eventually ease out of economic sanctions put in place after Moscow’s annexation of the Crimea. …read more Source: Channel...
Kiev calls for real truce, not ‘hybrid ceasefire’
What Ukraine needs is a real bilateral ceasefire for eastern Ukraine, and not a “hybrid ceasefire”, said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin on Thursday (Dec 4). …read more Source: Channel...
