Section: Australia&NZ
Journalist faces charges in Russia-occupied Crimea
MOSCOW (AP) ” The prosecutor general for Russian-occupied Crimea says security services are pressing charges against a Crimean journalist for undermining Russia’s territorial integrity.Shortly after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
UKRAINE 2016: NEW GOVERNMENT, NEW COALITION AND NEW OPPOSITION
On 10 April 2016 Prime Minister Arsenij Yatsenyuk announced he resigned and on 14 April Mr Yatsenyuk was replaced by new Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman. Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraines former prime minister, rises again as new opposition force i…(10 квітня 2016-го року Премєр-міністр України Арсеній Яценюк повідомив про свою резиґнацію і вже...
Putin, Poroshenko discuss jailed Ukrainian pilot, Russians held in Ukraine: Kremlin (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko on Monday discussed the fate of a hunger-striking Ukrainian pilot jailed in Russia and two Russians captured and tried in Ukraine, the Kremlin said. …read more Source: The West...
Obama-Putin discuss need to implement Ukraine peace deal
MOSCOW (AP) ” Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Barack Obama have spoken by telephone, and the White House says they spent much of the call discussing Ukraine, with Obama urging Putin to abide by a 2015 agreement aimed… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine court sentences two alleged Russian soldiers to 14 years in jail (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – A Ukrainian court on Monday found two alleged Russian soldiers guilty of waging war in the east of the country and sentenced them to 14 years in jail each. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine convicts 2 captured Russian servicemen of terrorism
MOSCOW (AP) ” A Ukrainian court has convicted two Russian servicemen captured last year of terrorism and waging a war in eastern Ukraine.Alexander Alexandrov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev have acknowledged being Russian servicemen and said… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
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...
