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Russia to supply breakaway Ukrainian region with power: official
MOSCOW – Russia will start providing power to the breakaway Ukrainian region of Luhansk after Kiev cut supplies, Interfax news agency cited Russia’s envoy to the Ukraine peace talks, Boris Gryzlov, as saying on Tuesday. Gryzlov said the… …read more Source:...
Ukraine cuts power supply to separatist region, blaming unpaid debts
KIEV – Ukraine’s national power company said on Tuesday it had cut electricity to parts of an eastern region controlled by pro-Russian separatists because they had run up large debts. There was no immediate reaction from political leaders in… …read more Source:...
EU’s Mogherini, on Moscow visit, says bloc’s Russia sanctions to stay
MOSCOW – The European Union’s top diplomat said on Monday that the bloc wanted better ties with Russia but could not pretend Moscow did not annex Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014 and that EU sanctions would stay in place. Federica Mogherini, on her… …read more Source:...
Russia says those guilty of death of OSCE member should be found
MOSCOW – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday the people implicated in the death of an American member of the OSCE mission in eastern Ukraine should be brought to justice. Speaking at a press conference alongside the European… …read more Source:...
Member of security watchdog OSCE killed in Ukraine
18 min 36 sec agoOne member of European security watchdog OSCE’s monitoring mission in eastern Uk …read more Source:...
Ukraine not worried relations with U.S. fraying in Trump era
26 min 21 sec agoWASHINGTON – The United States has strongly signaled it will continue to support Ukra …read more Source:...
Ukraine makes two high-profile detentions in corruption case
KIEV – Ukrainian authorities detained a former lawmaker and the deputy chief of state energy firm Naftogaz in a case related to the embezzlement of $17.3 million through selling uranium concentrate at inflated prices, prosecutors and the anti-corruption… …read more Source:...
Ukraine makes two high-profile detentions in corruption case
Ukrainian authorities detained a former lawmaker and the deputy chief of state energy firm Naftogaz in a case related to the embezzlement of US$17.3 million through selling uranium concentrate at inflated prices, prosecutors and the anti-corruption bureau said on Friday. …read more Source: Channel...
U.N. judges decline Ukraine’s request to order Russia to stop supporting eastern rebels
THE HAGUE – Judges at the U.N.’s highest court on Wednesday rejected a Ukrainian interim request to order Russia to stop supporting troops in the east of the country, saying its request did not meet legal requirements under an international terrorism treaty…. …read more Source:...
UN court orders Russia to halt discrimination of Crimean Tartar minority
The highest United Nations court on Wednesday ordered Russia to halt discrimination of ethnic Crimean Tartars, handing down an interim ruling in a dispute in which Ukraine is seeking to stop what is says is Moscow’s support for separatists. …read more Source: Channel...
