Section: Australia&NZ
Offices of search engine Yandex raided in Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukraine’s intelligence agency is searching the offices of Yandex, a Russia-based Internet company best known for its search engine.Ukrainian authorities earlier this month blocked access to Yandex as well as to several… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Germany to host Ukraine talks in Berlin as fighting persists
BERLIN (AP) ” Germany’s Foreign Ministry says envoys from Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France will meet this week in Berlin to try and push forward the implementation of a peace deal for eastern Ukraine.Ministry spokesman Martin… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine raids Russian internet giant Yandex over treason (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s security service on Monday searched offices of Russian internet giant Yandex as part of a treason probe after Kiev banned its popular search engine earlier this month. …read more Source: The West...
Putin, Macron to air tough issues at Versailles meet (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – France’s new President Emmanuel Macron will hold delicate talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday with the two countries harbouring longstanding differences over Ukraine and Syria. …read more Source: The West...
Moldova’s ‘frozen conflict’ has lessons for east Ukraine (AFP)
Tiraspol (Moldova) (AFP) – The country Nikolai Klimkin serves does not officially exist and has remained trapped in a limbo of impoverished stagnation for decades. …read more Source: The West...
$95.6M awarded to Philadelphia building collapse survivor
PHILADELPHIA (AP) ” An arbitrator has awarded $95.6 million to a Ukrainian immigrant who was seriously injured in a 2013 Philadelphia building collapse.An attorney for Mariya Plekan announced the division of the $227 million settlement… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Angry Ukrainians say they’ve seen Koons’s ‘Ballerina’ before (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainians took to the internet Thursday to lambaste star US artist Jeff Koons over his latest New York installation, a huge sculpture that appears remarkably similar to a work by a Ukrainian artist who died in 1993. …read more Source: The West...
Ukrainian hacker sentenced in stolen news releases scheme
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ” A Ukrainian hacker involved in an international scheme that used stolen unpublished news releases to make about $30 million in profits has been sentenced to more than two years in prison.Vadym Iermolovych received… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine backs tough TV language rules to limit Russian (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s parliament ratched up its cultural war against Russia on Tuesday by backing television language quotas requiring major channels to broadcast at least three-quarters of their programmes in the Ukrainian language. …read more Source: The West...
EU – UKRAINE: VISA-FREE REGIME FOR UKRAINIAN CITIZENS
On May 17, in Strasbourg, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko took part in the signing ceremony of the legislative act on abolishing visa requirements for Ukrainians for short-term trips to the countries of the European Union and the Schengen zo…(17 травня у Страсбурзі був підписаний законодавчий акт про надання Україні безвізового режиму...
