Section: The Chosun Ilbo (South Korea)
TIME Magazine Names Merkel ‘Person of the Year 2015’
TIME magazine has named German Chancellor Angela Merkel its 2015 “Person of the Year”, noting her leadership during the Syrian refugee crisis, the Greek bail-out deal, currency turmoil in the European Union, and Russia’s intervention in Ukraine. The magazine said Merkel “stepped in” every time Europ…...
Russia Threatens to Cut Off Gas, Coal to Ukraine
Russia threatened Tuesday to cut off natural gas and to halt coal deliveries to Ukraine, worsening a dispute over a power blackout in Crimea. Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak accused Kyiv of deliberately refusing to help rebuild electricity pylons which were blown up by unidentified, pro-Ukra… …read more Source: The Chosun...
Direct Flights End Between Russia, Ukraine
Direct airline flights between Russia and Ukraine have stopped. The move announced last month by Kyiv is the latest in a series of tit-for-tat measures imposed over the conflict in Ukraine. The ban began at midnight, after talks to avoid it failed last week.About 70,000 passengers a month will be af… …read more Source: The Chosun...
Russia Vows to Counter New U.S. Sanctions
Russia said on Wednesday it would respond in kind to new U.S. sanctions imposed on the country over the Ukraine crisis. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its website that Moscow will take “countermeasures” that will not necessarily “mirror” the U.S. sanctions. The ministry said “th…...
Putin Open to Meeting Obama at UN
Russian President Vladimir Putin is open to a meeting with President Barack Obama when the Russian leader visits the United States to participate in the United Nations General Assembly next month, Russia’s foreign minister said Wednesday. Speaking to reporters in Sevastopol, Crimea, Foreign Minister… …read more Source: The...
MH17 Probe Yields Possible Parts of Russian Missile
Investigators probing last year’s downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine have found fragments that may have come from a Russian surface-to-air missile. Dutch prosecutors said in a statement Tuesday that the investigators from Belgium, Australia, Ukraine, Malaysia an… …read more Source: The Chosun...
Russia Vetoes UN Resolution on MH17 Crash
Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have set up an international criminal court to prosecute those responsible for shooting down a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine a year ago. Malaysia, the Netherlands, Australia, Ukraine and Belgium had expressed their sup… …read more Source: The Chosun...
U.S. to Train Regular Ukrainian Troops
The Obama administration said Friday that it would expand training of Ukrainian security forces in their fight against Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. The U.S. is already training Ukrainian national guard units. In the fall, officials said, the mission will be expanded to in… …read more Source: The Chosun...
Hoax Letter to Russian Media Seeks to Tie U.S. Senator to Ukraine
A forger sent a hoax letter to Russian media in an apparent bid to convince journalists that a senior U.S. lawmaker, Senator Richard Durbin, was trying to tell Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk how to run his government, Durbin’s office said on Monday. The hoaxer wrote to Yatsenyu… …read more Source: The Chosun...
EU Extends Russia Sanctions for 6 Months
European Union foreign ministers formally agreed Monday to extend economic sanctions against Russia for an additional six months in response to the country’s role in neighboring Ukraine. The move came during a meeting of the 28-member bloc’s foreign ministers in Luxembourg. EU envoys… …read more Source: The Chosun...
