Section: Today (Singapore)
Russian lawmakers give mixed reaction to Trump’s nuclear cuts offer
MOSCOW – Parliamentarians in Russia gave a mixed reaction on Monday to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to strike a deal on nuclear arms cuts in exchange for Washington lifting sanctions imposed on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis. … …read more Source:...
Trump’s pivotal Russian test
NEW YORK – There’s a mood of confidence in Moscow bordering on triumphalism. Russia is dictating the grim outcome in Syria. It has annexed with impunity part of Ukraine and set limits on the country’s Westernising ambitions. It has influenced, through… …read more Source:...
U.S. Vice President Biden to visit Ukraine on January 15
KIEV – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will visit Ukraine on Sunday and meet President Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s presidential office said on Thursday. Biden last visited Ukraine in December 2015…. …read more Source:...
Ex-Republican Party head Barbour to lobby U.S. for Ukraine
WASHINGTON – Haley Barbour, former Republican Party leader and Mississippi governor, has been hired by the Ukrainian government to lobby U.S. politicians, according to documents filed this week. The hiring of Barbour and his lobbying firm BGR… …read more Source:...
Ukraine moves to blacklist Le Pen over Crimea comments
KIEV – Ukraine indicated on Wednesday it would bar French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen from entering the country after comments she made that appeared to legitimize Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. Kiev is nervous about the… …read more Source:...
Trump aide says U.S. sanctions on Russia may be disproportionate
WASHINGTON – A top aide to President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Sunday that the White House may have disproportionately punished Russia by ordering the expulsion of 35 suspected Russian spies. Incoming White House press… …read more Source:...
Senator McCain says U.S. stands with Ukraine against Russia
KIEV – Republican U.S. Senator John McCain promised on Saturday continued support for Kiev in the face of aggression from Moscow, as he spent New Year’s Eve on the front line in Ukraine’s eastern conflict zone. McCain was one of a bipartisan… …read more Source:...
Russian Foreign Ministry says new sanctions will harm restoration of ties
MOSCOW – New U.S. sanctions on Russia are counterproductive and will harm a restoration of bilateral ties, Interfax news agency reported on Thursday, citing Konstantin Dolgov, Foreign Ministry commissioner for human rights, democracy and the rule of law…. …read more Source:...
Ukraine hit by 6,500 hack attacks, sees Russian ‘cyberwar’
KIEV – Hackers have targeted Ukrainian state institutions about 6,500 times in the past two months, including incidents that showed Russian security services were waging a cyberwar against the country, President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday. … …read more Source:...
Ukraine hit by 6,500 hack attacks, sees Russian ‘cyberwar’
KIEV – Hackers have targeted Ukrainian state institutions about 6,500 times in the past two months, including incidents that showed Russian security services were waging a cyberwar against the country, President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday. … …read more Source:...
