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Ukraine has ‘long way to go’ on gay rights: Elton John (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Veteran British rock star Elton John on Saturday said Ukraine still had “a long way to go” in its treatment of the gay, bisexual and transgender community at a conference in Kiev. …read more Source: The West...
Ukrainian PM warns West not to lift Russia sanctions (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Saturday urged the West not to lift sanctions on Russia for its role in the Ukraine conflict unless the Minsk peace deal is fully implemented. …read more Source: The West...
Russia’s Putin welcomes Ukraine ceasefire (Reuters)
CHERSONEUS, Crimea (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that it was welcome that both Ukrainian armed forces and separatists in eastern Ukraine had ceased military operations,… …read more Source: The West...
Applause and wine as Berlusconi and Putin visit Crimea (AFP)
Sevastopol (AFP) – President Vladimir Putin on Friday hosted Italy’s former leader Silvio Berlusconi for talks in Crimea, during the highest-profile visit by a Western politician to the peninsula since its annexation last year. …read more Source: The West...
Poroshenko says Ukraine truce holding despite Russia ‘threat’ (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told an international conference Friday that Russia remained a treat to the “entire democratic world” but that he held out hope a new truce with pro-Moscow insurgents would hold. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine’s pro-Russia rebels target media in propaganda war (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Yana Agafonova, a media official in the pro-Russian rebel government in eastern Ukraine, says critical publications are not welcome in the separatist region, which is locked in a vicious propaganda war with Kiev. …read more Source: The West...
Russian court convicts one for pro-Ukrainian ‘vandalism’ (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – A Russian court on Thursday jailed a man for more than two years over a protest in which the top of a Moscow skyscraper was painted to resemble the Ukrainian flag. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine PM calls second Russia-Germany pipeline ‘anti-European’ (AFP)
Bratislava (AFP) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Thursday criticised as “anti-Ukrainian and anti-European” a deal between Russia’s energy giant Gazprom and several Western firms to build a second gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea. …read more Source: The West...
Russia’s Nemtsov, Saudi’s Badawi, listed for EU rights prize (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – Assassinated Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, a Ukraine military pilot held on murder charges by Moscow and jailed Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi were shortlisted Thursday for the European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize. …read more Source: The West...
Hollande, Merkel, Putin, Poroshenko to hold summit on Ukraine (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday agreed to hold an October summit on ending the conflict in Ukraine, as they welcomed reports that a truce in the east had been “generally respected since September 1”, the French presidency said. …read more Source: The West...
