Section: South Korea
EU Envoys Vote to Extend Russia Sanctions
European Union ambassadors meeting in Brussels agreed to extend current economic sanctions against Russia for another six months because the conflict in Ukraine remains unresolved. Envoys from the bloc’s 28 member states approved the decision in principle Tuesday. It still needs a unanimous formal a… …read more Source: The...
EU Envoys Vote to Extend Russia Sanctions
European Union ambassadors meeting in Brussels agreed to extend current economic sanctions against Russia for another six months because the conflict in Ukraine remains unresolved. Envoys from the bloc’s 28 member states approved the decision in principle Tuesday. It still needs a unanimous formal a… …read more Source: The...
EU Releases Details on Extended Sanctions Against Russia
The European Union on Saturday published details of its decision extending sanctions against Russia for its 2014 takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, saying it continues to oppose the “illegal annexation … and does not recognize it.”The extended penalties include asset freezes and visa bans ag… …read more...
Ukraine Hails Its Eurovision Winner, Russia Cries Foul
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko is heaping public praise on Ukrainian singer Jamala, after her surprise win Saturday over a Russian entry in the wildly popular Eurovision song contest. Poroshenko, writing on Twitter, said he personally congratulated the 33-year-old performer, whose winni… …read more Source: The Chosun...
Ukraine commemorates Chernobyl disaster
Ukraine Ambassador to Korea Vasyl Marmazov held a panel discussion at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul on April 29 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of his country’s tragic Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. “Nuclear power: lessons of the past and tasks for the future,” co-organized with the university, began with...
30 Years On, Chernobyl Evacuees Yearn Return to ‘Death Zone’
In the early hours of April 26, 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in then Soviet-controlled Ukraine exploded, releasing huge amounts of radiation into the air.One-hundred-sixteen-thousand people living around the plant were evacuated, and 220,000 more were forced to leave in subse… …read more Source: The Chosun...
New Suggestions of Russia-Ukraine Soldier Swap Deal
A long rumored “soldier swap” between Moscow and Kyiv seemed to gain new traction Tuesday, with Ukraine leader Petro Poroshenko claiming talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin had produced an “algorithm for freeing” an imprisoned Ukrainian pilot turned national cause celebre, Nadezhda Savchenko… …read more...
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. On April 26, 1986, a botched test at the Soviet nuclear plant sent clouds of… …read more Source: The...
U.S. Expands Sanctions Against Russia
The United States Treasury Department Tuesday imposed sanctions on 34 individuals and entities for previous sanctions evasion and other activities related to Russia’s involvement in Ukraine. The Treasury also announced that a number of majority-owned subsidiaries of Russian state banks, Sberbank and… …read more Source: The...
Ukraine to Suspend Trade with Crimea
Ukraine says it will suspend trade with Russian-occupied Crimea by mid-January. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said in televised comments Wednesday the ban will begin in 30 days and will affect everything but humanitarian aid. The prime minister added there was no decision as to whether Ukraine w… …read more Source: The Chosun...
