Section: Australia
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Yatsenyuk: Ukraine’s unlikely firebrand (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Arseniy Yatsenyuk once said that taking the job of Ukrainian prime minister was an act of “political suicide” and on Tuesday he appeared to have been proven right. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko asks embattled PM to resign (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday asked Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to resign in the face of the government’s perceived failure to fight endemic corruption and overcome a deep economic crisis. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine PM faces possible dismissal as crisis deepens (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk was fighting for his political life on Tuesday as parliament considered holding a vote of no confidence in the government over its perceived failure to fight graft. …read more Source: The West...
In Crimea, Tatars step up resistance to Russian rule
Ethnic minority’s leaders have been incarcerated, self-governing body is suppressed and members are intimidated. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Ukraine bans transit of trucks from Russia in trade war (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine on Monday banned the transit of Russian trucks across its territory in a tit-for-tat response to an escalating trade war between the feuding ex-Soviet states. …read more Source: The West...
Russia warns of new Cold War as east Ukraine violence surges (Reuters)
By Robin Emmott and Shadia Nasralla MUNICH (Reuters) – Violence in eastern Ukraine is intensifying and Russian-backed rebels have moved heavy weaponry back to the front line, internatio… …read more Source: The West...
It’s a ‘new cold war’: Russia
The world has plunged into a “new cold war”, the Russian Prime Minister says, amid tensions over Ukraine and Syria. …read more Source: THE...
Russia sanctions to remain until Ukraine deal implemented: Kerry (AFP)
Munich (Germany) (AFP) – Sanctions against Russia will continue until it implements all aspects of the Ukraine peace agreement reached in Minsk last year, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday. …read more Source: The West...
Russia decries ‘new Cold War’ as East-West strains cloud talks (AFP)
Munich (Germany) (AFP) – The world has plunged into a “new Cold War”, the Russian premier said Saturday, as East-West tensions over Ukraine and Syria took centre-stage at a gathering of world leaders in Germany. …read more Source: The West...
Russian PM says little sense in discussing Ukraine’s $3 billion debt (Reuters)
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said he planned no talks on Ukraine’s $3 billion (2 billion pounds) debt to Russia at the Munich Security conference this week. … …read more Source: The West...
