Section: Australia
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Ukraine pushes UN to step up scrutiny of Crimea (AFP)
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – Ukraine on Tuesday launched a bid at the United Nations to condemn rights abuses in Crimea and press Russia to allow UN monitors to visit the territory. …read more Source: The West...
Khodorkovsky urges UK to sanction Russian elites (AFP)
London (AFP) – Former oil tycoon and Kremlin foe Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Tuesday urged British MPs to punish corrupt Russian officials with assets in Britain, saying broader sanctions on Russia did not work. …read more Source: The West...
EU adds to Crimea sanctions blacklist (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – The European Union has added several people, including some recently elected to Russia’s parliament, to its sanctions blacklist for their role in supporting Moscow’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, officials said Tuesday. …read more Source: The West...
UKRAINIAN STEPS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION
The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko: Society has the right to know that. We shouldnt struggle against rich men, as somebody may guess. We should struggle against criminals who take apartments, cars, villas, planes being civil servants.(Президент України Петро Порошенко підкреслив, що суспільство має знати те, звідки у службовців такі великі...
Georgia’s Saakashvili resigns as governor in Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Georgia’s pro-Western former president Mikheil Saakashvili resigned Monday from his post as governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region after a tumultuous tenure that lasted just 18 months. …read more Source: The West...
SurkovLeaks: new cache of emails alleges Russian plan to destabilise Ukraine
A new cache of emails hacked from the office of an aide to Russian president Vladimir Putin reveals a 2015 plot to destabilise the eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv, the hackers claim. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
New cache of hacked emails alleges Russian plan to destabilise Ukraine
A new cache of emails hacked from the office of an aide to Russian president Vladimir Putin reveals a 2015 plot to destabilise the eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv, the hackers claim. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Ukraine’s leader speaks to ‘fake’ Kyrgyz president (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian president spoke to what he thought was his Kyrgyz counterpart by phone this week — only to discover that the person on the other end was someone else entirely. …read more Source: The West...
IMF arrives in Ukraine with tough demand for new loan (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – An International Monetary Fund team arrives in Kiev on Thursday to check on cash-strapped Ukraine’s books and set out a series of tough conditions for the disbursement of further loans. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine removes last conscripts from war zone (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine said Wednesday it no longer had conscripted soldiers fighting pro-Russian insurgents for the first time since a conflict that has claimed nearly 10,000 lives began in April 2014. …read more Source: The West...
