Section: Australia&NZ
Polish leader calls for UN force for Russia-Ukraine border
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Poland’s President Andrzej Duda is calling for U.N. peacekeepers to be sent to the Russia-Ukraine border and all territory controlled by separatists in eastern Ukraine.Duda stressed “in the strongest terms”… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukrainian court sanctions Russian journalists’s arrest
MOSCOW (AP) — A Ukrainian court has ordered a Russian journalist jailed for two months pending investigation on treason charges.Kirill Vyshinskiy, the head of the Ukrainian office of Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency, has been in… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Incarcerated Ukrainian filmmaker goes on hunger strike
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials say an incarcerated Ukrainian filmmaker has gone on hunger strike to demand the release of Ukrainian prisoners in Russia.Oleg Sentsov, a vocal opponent of Russia’s annexation of his native Crimea,… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
UKRAINE IN EUROPE: TODAY AND TOMORROW – УКРАЇНА У ЄВРОПІ: НИНІ І ЗАВТРА
The Western Open Forum with Dr Sev Ozdowski AM, Equity and Diversity, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Western Sydney University, and with Special Guest Speaker His Excellency Dr Mykola Kulinich, Ambassador of Ukraine to Australia, was held on Wednesday 16 May 2018 at Female Orphan School, Western Sydney University. The Ambassador of...
UKRAINE: THE DAY OF VICTORY OVER NAZISM – УКРАЇНА: ДЕНЬ ПЕРЕМОГИ НАД НАЦИЗМОМ
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on the Day of Victory over Nazism took part in the ceremony commemorating the deceased on the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of Victory in the Second World War. The solemn procession led by the Head of State passed by Alley of the War Glory to the Grave of the Unknown Soldier. The Head of State laid flowers...
Traffic opens on bridge linking southern Russia with Crimea
MOSCOW (AP) — A long-anticipated bridge linking Russia’s Taman Peninsula with Crimea has opened for regular traffic.Car traffic across the 19-kilometer (11.8-mile) bridge began Wednesday, and it’s set to open for trucks in the fall…. …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Putin opens bridge linking southern Russia with Crimea
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has driven a large construction truck to open the much-anticipated bridge linking southern Russia and the Crimean peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.The 19-kilometer… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Russia’s news agency says its offices in Ukraine raided
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian state-owned news agency says its office in the Ukrainian capital has been raided and that at least one of its correspondents has been detained for questioning.RIA Novosti said on Tuesday that Ukrainian intelligence… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
THE UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY IN AUSTRALIA AND UKRAINE – УКРАЇНСЬКА СПІЛЬНОТА АВСТРАЛІЇ ТА УКРАЇНА
Bogdan Rudnytski interviewed the Chair of the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations Stefan Romaniw, OAM. We spoke about the meeting with Federal MP and leaders of Australian Government in Canberra last Monday and 2nd meeting with Dr Mykola Kulinich, Ambassador of Ukraine to Australia. We were talking about next the Open Forum...
Ukrainian nationalists pour foul fluid on Russian official
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The director of a Russian cultural office in Ukraine’s capital has been drenched with a bucketful of green antiseptic liquid mixed with feces. A Ukrainian nationalist group wanted to send him a message.The assault… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
