Section: Australia
- ABC News (Australia) (311)
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- SBS (Australia) (245)
- The West Australian (Australia) (2,557)
Ukraine raids Russian internet giant Yandex over treason (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s security service on Monday searched offices of Russian internet giant Yandex as part of a treason probe after Kiev banned its popular search engine earlier this month. …read more Source: The West...
Putin, Macron to air tough issues at Versailles meet (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – France’s new President Emmanuel Macron will hold delicate talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday with the two countries harbouring longstanding differences over Ukraine and Syria. …read more Source: The West...
Moldova’s ‘frozen conflict’ has lessons for east Ukraine (AFP)
Tiraspol (Moldova) (AFP) – The country Nikolai Klimkin serves does not officially exist and has remained trapped in a limbo of impoverished stagnation for decades. …read more Source: The West...
Angry Ukrainians say they’ve seen Koons’s ‘Ballerina’ before (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainians took to the internet Thursday to lambaste star US artist Jeff Koons over his latest New York installation, a huge sculpture that appears remarkably similar to a work by a Ukrainian artist who died in 1993. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine backs tough TV language rules to limit Russian (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s parliament ratched up its cultural war against Russia on Tuesday by backing television language quotas requiring major channels to broadcast at least three-quarters of their programmes in the Ukrainian language. …read more Source: The West...
EU – UKRAINE: VISA-FREE REGIME FOR UKRAINIAN CITIZENS
On May 17, in Strasbourg, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko took part in the signing ceremony of the legislative act on abolishing visa requirements for Ukrainians for short-term trips to the countries of the European Union and the Schengen zo…(17 травня у Страсбурзі був підписаний законодавчий акт про надання Україні безвізового режиму...
Macron to host Putin for May 29 talks on Syria, Ukraine (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron will host Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin next week as the countries look to reset strained relations, notably over Syria and Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
YES, THIS IS A CARMEN WITH DMYTRO POPOV NOT TO BE MISSED…
Bogdan Rudnytski interviewed the Ukrainian tenor Dmytro Popov, who was a prize winner at Plácido Domingos 2007 Operalia World Contest in Paris. Mr Popov made several significant debuts: 22 years old artist at the Kyiv National Opera, after at …(Богдан Рудницький веде розмову із сучасною українською зіркою-тенором Дмитром Поповим, котрий у...
Ukraine delays vote on religious bill outraging Russia (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s parliament on Thursday postponed a vote on a religious bill that has outraged Russia because it suggests imposing severe restrictions on the branch of the Orthodox Church headed by the Moscow patriarchate. …read more Source: The West...
Two police hurt in attack on LGBT rally in Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Two Ukrainian policemen were hospitalised after they tried to disperse about 30 young men who attacked a rally by gay and transgender rights activists in the eastern city of Kharkiv, law enforcement officials said Thursday. …read more Source: The West...