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Donald Trump offers ‘some good deals’ to Russia over sanctions – with a catch
US President-elect Donald Trump will propose offering to end sanctions imposed on Russia over its annexation of Crimea in return for a nuclear arms reduction deal with Moscow, he told The Times of London. …read more Source:...
Giant arch slides over Chernobyl site to block radiation for a century
In the middle of a vast exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, the world’s largest land-based moving structure has been slid over the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site to prevent deadly radiation spewing from the stricken reactor for the next 100 years. …read more Source:...
Ukraine appoints young woman to lead purge of bureaucrats
A 23-year-old law graduate has been appointed to lead a campaign in Ukraine to purge officials tainted by corruption of the ousted regime – the second woman in her early 20s with little experience appointed to a top job in the past week. …read more Source:...
Brief final meeting for Obama, Putin focuses on Syria, not Trump
President Barack Obama spoke briefly with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Syria and Ukraine on Sunday as an economic summit got under way in Peru, in their first known conversation since Donald Trump was elected the next US president. …read more Source:...
Obama, Putin speak for four minutes about Syria and Ukraine
US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin spoke for about four minutes on Sunday at the APEC summit about Syria and Ukraine, a White House official said. …read more Source:...
Russian hackers harassed journalists who were investigating the Malaysia Airlines plane crash
Russian government hackers began targeting a British citizen journalist in February 2015, eight months after he began posting evidence documenting alleged Russian government involvement in the shoot-down of a Malaysian jetliner over Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Russia claims rebel rocket did not down Malaysia Airlines MH17
Radar data showed Malaysian airliner MH17 was definitely not brought down by a rocket fired from territory held by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014, the Kremlin says. …read more Source:...
Donald Trump’s campaign chief Paul Manafort quits amid Ukraine scandal
Paul Manafort has quit as campaign chair for Republican candidate Donald Trump, amid a snowballing scandal over his links to Ukrainian politics. …read more Source:...
Ukrainian MP offers more details on alleged payments to Trump campaign chief
A Ukrainian lawmaker on Friday divulged more details of what he said were payments made to Donald Trump’s campaign chief in the US presidential race by the political party of the Kremlin-backed former Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovich. …read more Source:...
Donald Trump advisers waged covert influence campaign
Emails show Donald Trump’s advisers orchestrated a covert lobbying operation for the pro-Russian Ukraine government in an attempt to sway American public opinion. …read more Source:...
