Section: The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
Ukrainian prime minister says government has reached debt restructuring deal with creditors
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Ukrainian prime minister says government has reached debt restructuring deal with creditors . …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Obama and German leader discuss violence in Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) ” President Barack Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany have discussed the recent rise in violence in eastern Ukraine from increased attacks by combined Russian-separatist forces.The White House says they… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine negotiators call for school-start truce
MINSK, Belarus (AP) ” The warring sides in the eastern Ukraine conflict have called for a cease-fire on Sept. 1, the day that the new school year is to begin.Speaking after a meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group in the Belarusian… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
A look at recent politically tainted trials in Russia
MOSCOW (AP) ” The guilty verdict Tuesday for Crimean filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in a Russian maximum-security prison for an alleged terror conspiracy, follows a plethora of recent Russian trials… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukrainian filmmaker sentenced to 20 years in Russia
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) ” A Russian court has convicted a Ukrainian filmmaker of conspiracy to commit terror attacks and sentenced him to 20 years in prison.The court in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don said Tuesday that Oleg… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukrainian filmmaker sentenced to 20 years in prison in Russia in terror conspiracy case
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) ” Ukrainian filmmaker sentenced to 20 years in prison in Russia in terror conspiracy case. …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Kiev celebrates Ukrainian Independence Day
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Thousands of servicemen have marched in downtown Kiev to mark Ukraine’s Independence Day.The troops carried rifles but, unlike last year, the parade did not feature any of the more powerful weaponry which could… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Russian court orders Ukrainian pilot tried in border town
MOSCOW (AP) ” A Russian court has rejected a defense plea to move a high-profile trial of a Ukrainian officer to Moscow.The Rostov-on-Don regional court ruled Friday that military pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, who is charged in the… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Remains of WWII German soldiers found in Kiev
MOSCOW (AP) ” A Ukrainian newspaper says Ukrainian and German servicemen have found remains of about 200 German soldiers buried in Kiev during the German occupation in World War II.The Segodnya newspaper reported that Ukrainians… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Putin takes plunge into the black
Vladimir Putin dived to the bottom of the Black Sea to explore an ancient shipwreck off Crimea, in a stunt aimed at cementing his image as adventurer and control of the annexed territory.The Russian President’s 83m dive in a mini-submarine… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
