Section: The West Australian (Australia)
Defying radiation, elderly residents cling on in Chernobyl (AFP)
Chernobyl (Ukraine) (AFP) – Defying radioactive contamination and a government evacuation order, Yevgeny Markevich returned to his beloved Chernobyl shortly after it suffered the world’s worst nuclear accident 30 years ago this week. …read more Source: The West...
30 years on, Chernobyl worker remembers disaster aftermath (AFP)
Vyshgorod (Ukraine) (AFP) – Igor Magala can still remember the metallic taste he got in his mouth as he drove up to the Chernobyl nuclear power station on the morning of April 26, 1986. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine prepares to mark 30 years since Chernobyl shook the world (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine is preparing to mark 30 years since the Chernobyl disaster, the world’s worst nuclear accident whose death toll remains a mystery and which continues to jeopardise the local population’s health. …read more Source: The West...
New Ukraine finance minister wants wriggle room in IMF talks (Reuters)
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine could ask the International Monetary Fund to revise the criteria under which it disburses loans to Kiev, the new finance minister, Oleksandr Danyliuk, said in a newspaper inte… …read more Source: The West...
Russia to tell NATO Baltic buildup ‘absolutely unjustified’ (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – Russia will use rare talks with NATO next week to protest the alliance’s “absolutely unjustified” military buildup in the Baltic states, Moscow’s ambassador to Brussels said Friday, adding the alliance was using the Ukraine crisis as a pretext. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine parliament appoints pro-EU Groysman as PM (AFP)
Kiev (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine’s parliament on Thursday appointed pro-Western speaker Volodymyr Groysman as prime minister in a bid to end months of political gridlock and unlock vital aid to the war torn-state. …read more Source: The West...
Groysman: Poroshenko protege and Ukraine’s crisis PM (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Volodymr Groysman has catapulted from being a small city mayor to Ukraine’s premier over a remarkable two-year span during which he stuck close by President Petro Poroshenko’s side. …read more Source: The West...
UN employee ‘captured’ by Ukraine rebels (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – The United Nations said Wednesday that one of its staff members had been captured by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine’s separatist east. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine eyes Thursday vote on new pro-EU government (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Strife-torn Ukraine appeared to move a step closer Wednesday to agreeing a new pro-EU government headed by parliament speaker Volodymyr Groysman that could be voted on the following day. …read more Source: The West...
Dutch vote against EU-Ukraine treaty – final result (Reuters)
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch voters rejected the Ukraine-EU treaty by a large margin in a nonbinding referendum held last week, according to the final results published by the country’s Election Commis… …read more Source: The West...
