Section: Australia
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Trial of fugitive banker Ablyazov begins in Kazakhstan (AFP)
Almaty (Kazakhstan) (AFP) – The trial in absentia of Mukhtar Ablyazov, a fugitive banker and Kazakh opposition figure wanted on embezzlement charges by Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine began Friday, a court in the Central Asian country said. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine imposes sanctions on Russian state-owned banks (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine slapped sanctions on Russian state-owned banks operating in the country on Thursday, ratcheting up tensions with Moscow amid a bitter trade war with Kremlin-backed rebels in the east. …read more Source: The West...
Poland and Ukraine warn could Russia use gas ‘blackmail’ (AFP)
Warsaw (AFP) – Poland and Ukraine said Wednesday they would take legal action against Russian plans for a second gas pipeline to the EU, a project they allege Moscow could use for political “blackmail”. …read more Source: The West...
Merkel visit to Russia lined up: Kremlin (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to visit Moscow for talks with President Vladimir Putin set to cover the crisis in Ukraine, the Kremlin said Wednesday. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine may arrest Russia’s wheelchair-confined Eurovision singer Yulia Samoylova
Ukraine said Monday that it may bar Russia’s contestant from entering, on the grounds that she illegally toured Crimea after Moscow annexed the peninsula in 2014. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
UKRAINE AGAINST RUSSIA AT THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
Kyiv accuses Russia of violating UN conventions against terrorism and discrimination by supporting groups in eastern Ukraine and Crimea. Moscow seized control of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in March 2014 and has supported separatists in eastern Uk…(Міжнародний суд в Гаазі розглядає позов, поданий Україною до Росії в середині січня...
Two Ukrainian soldiers killed, 16 wounded in fresh fighting (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s army reported Saturday two soldiers killed in clashes with Russian-backed rebels, in a new uptick in violence across eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Feminists urge Ukraine to reclaim Women’s Day (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Around a thousand people marched through Kiev on Wednesday, International Women’s Day, calling for a return to the original feminist meaning of a holiday now largely associated with flowers and gifts. …read more Source: The West...
UKRAINE:THE WAR, RAILROAD BLOCKADE AND MONEY
More than six weeks, groups of armed, former Ukrainian soldiers and members of nationalist political parties have blocked rail lines. The Ukrainian government has condemned the action, which has stopped trains from transporting coal and other ind…(Більше ніж|більш ніж| шість тижнів групи|гурту| озброєних колишніх українських вояків,...
Russia denies Kiev’s ‘terrorism’ claims at UN court (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – Russia hit back Tuesday at claims it is “sponsoring terrorism” in war-torn eastern Ukraine, dismissing Kiev’s accusations that it is breaking treaties by supporting pro-Moscow rebels as “neither factual nor legal”. …read more Source: The West...
