Section: New Zealand
Ukrainian president condemns attack on Polish Consulate
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukraine’s president has condemned an overnight attack on the Polish Consulate in a western city that appeared to involve a shell fired from a grenade launcher.Petro Poroshenko has ordered extra protection for consulates… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Russia willing to re-start NZ free-trade talks frozen over Crimea conflict
In 2014, New Zealand suspended free trade negotiations with Russia and its customs union partners Belarus and Kazakhstan. …read more Source: The National Business...
What a murdered former Russian lawmaker Denis Voronenkov said in one of his final interviews
Denis Voronenkov, a former Russian lawmaker facing corruption charges in Moscow who fled to Ukraine and became a critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot twice in the head and killed outside a posh hotel here in the country’s… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
What makes a cyberattack? Experts lobby to restrict the term
LONDON (AP) ” When U.S. senator John McCain told Ukrainian television that the allegedly Russian-backed breach of the Democratic National Committee’s server was “an act of war,” Michael Schmitt cringed.Schmitt, a professor of law… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
EU court rules Russia sanctions over Ukraine are valid
BRUSSELS (AP) ” The European Union’s top court has ruled that the bloc’s economic sanctions on Russian companies over the crisis in Ukraine are valid.The EU Court of Justice’s decision Tuesday came in response to a legal challenge… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Here are 10 critics of Vladimir Putin who died violently or in suspicious ways
Not everyone who has a quarrel with Russian President Vladimir Putin dies in violent or suspicious circumstances – far from it. But enough loud critics of Putin’s policies have been murdered that Thursday’s daylight shooting of a Russian who sought asylum in Ukraine has led to speculation of Kremlin involvement. …read more...
EU prolongs satellite support to Ukraine monitors
BRUSSELS (AP) ” The European Union is prolonging its satellite imagery support to help observers monitor the conflict in eastern Ukraine.EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said in a statement Friday that satellite imagery… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine official says Russian agent killed Kremlin critic
MOSCOW (AP) ” A senior Ukrainian official says the killer of Kremlin critic Denis Voronenko, who was gunned down in Kiev, was a Russian agent.Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, identified the man who… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
1 killed as large fire rips through Ukraine military arsenal
MOSCOW (AP) ” A woman has died in an enormous fire at a Ukrainian munitions dump in the country’s Kharkiv region near the Russian border.The body of the 66-year old woman was found in a house that had been hit by a shell in a town… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ex-Russian lawmaker shot dead in Kiev; Ukraine blames Russia
GRAPHIC: This story and video above contains images which may upset some readers. …read more Source:...
