Section: Thailand
Timeline of Ukraine-Russia ties since Crimea takeover
KIEV – Following are key dates in the dispute between Ukraine and Russia since Moscow annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea: …read more Source: Bangkok...
Putin accuses Ukraine of incursions into Crimea
MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of waging “terror” over alleged attempted incursions into annexed Crimea that Kiev has fiercely denied. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Serena out of Rio tennis
RIO DE JANEIRO – Defending champion and world number one Serena Williams was sent crashing out of the Olympic Games Tuesday, losing 6-4, 6-3 to Elina Svitolina of Ukraine. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine says no ‘critical’ need for new IMF aid
KIEV – Ukraine’s finance minister has said the conflict-hit nation had no “critical” need for IMF funding as the global lender continues delaying the payout of billions of dollars in aid. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine squad told to avoid Russian media
KIEV – Ukraine’s sports minister on Friday banned his Olympic team from talking to the Russian media while in Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Games. …read more Source: Bangkok...
President Xi Jinping Suppresses Legal Activism Movement in China
China’s crackdown raises familiar specter of foreign forces . . BEIJING – In halting televised confessions and emotional courtroom testimony, Chinese lawyers and activists held in a government crackdown have voiced the same ominous message: Shadowy foreign forces are funding, directing and encouraging activities bent on destabilizing...
Freed Ukrainian pilot Savchenko launches new hunger strike
KIEV – A Ukrainian pilot, who was freed from a Russian jail in May, announced a fresh hunger strike Tuesday in protest over Kiev’s failure to secure the return of other prisoners of war in the separatist east. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine wrestler Belenyuk grapples prejudice, funding woes before Rio
KIEV – Taunted as a child over his Rwandese background, Greco-Roman wrestler Zhan Belenyuk has shrugged off the insults to become one of Ukraine’s leading Olympic medal hopes. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Russian and Ukraine Women Unite Online Against Sex Abuse
Hundreds of personal stories of sexual violence and harassment are appearing on social media in Russia and Ukraine . . MOSCOW – Women across Russia and Ukraine are uniting and speaking out – for once, not about the tensions between their two nations, nor the Russia-backed separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine – but about their experiences of...
‘Top online pirate’ arrested in Poland, charged in US
WASHINGTON – A Ukrainian alleged to be the ringleader of the world’s biggest online piracy site, Kickass Torrents, was hit with US criminal charges Wednesday, accused of distributing over $1 billion worth of illegally copied films, music and other content. …read more Source: Bangkok...
