Section: Australia&NZ
Feminists urge Ukraine to reclaim Women’s Day (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Around a thousand people marched through Kiev on Wednesday, International Women’s Day, calling for a return to the original feminist meaning of a holiday now largely associated with flowers and gifts. …read more Source: The West...
UKRAINE:THE WAR, RAILROAD BLOCKADE AND MONEY
More than six weeks, groups of armed, former Ukrainian soldiers and members of nationalist political parties have blocked rail lines. The Ukrainian government has condemned the action, which has stopped trains from transporting coal and other ind…(Більше ніж|більш ніж| шість тижнів групи|гурту| озброєних колишніх українських вояків,...
Ukrainian official says don’t lift sanctions against Russia
WASHINGTON (AP) ” Ukraine’s foreign minister is telling U.S. senators that American sanctions against Russia shouldn’t be eased and possibly should be ratcheted up as Moscow escalates its military aggression in the eastern European… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Russia denies Kiev’s ‘terrorism’ claims at UN court (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – Russia hit back Tuesday at claims it is “sponsoring terrorism” in war-torn eastern Ukraine, dismissing Kiev’s accusations that it is breaking treaties by supporting pro-Moscow rebels as “neither factual nor legal”. …read more Source: The West...
Russia: World court has no jurisdiction in Ukraine case
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ” Russia says that the United Nations’ highest judicial body does not have jurisdiction to rule on Ukrainian allegations that Moscow sponsors terrorism by funneling arms and money to separatist rebels in… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Russia denies Kiev’s ‘terrorism’ claims at UN court (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – Russia hit back Tuesday at claims of “sponsoring terrorism” in war-torn eastern Ukraine, dismissing Kiev’s accusations it is breaking treaties by supporting pro-Moscow rebels as “neither factual nor legal”. …read more Source: The West...
Ukrainian court arrests top tax official
MOSCOW (AP) ” A court in Ukraine’s capital has placed a top tax official under arrest pending trial on embezzlement charges.A 14-hour hearing closed early Tuesday when the Kiev district court ruled to send Roman Nasirov, chief of… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
UKRAINIANS IN ARGENTINA
Bogdan Rudnytski interviewed Maria and Roman Lypynskyj from Argentina. Between the 1887 and 1940s tens of thousands of settlers from Ukraine made their way to that Southern Hemisphere republic. Indeed, Ukrainians constituted the largest of the Sla…(Богдан Рудницький веде розмову із панством Марусею і Романом Липинськими із Арґентини. Поміж...
Russia ‘up to no good’ with its meddling: UK’s Johnson (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – Russia must halt “unacceptable” meddling in other countries, especially the Balkans and Ukraine, for there to be any chance of a fresh start with the West, British foreign minister Boris Johnson said Monday. …read more Source: The West...
Kiev court hears Ukraine tax official’s embezzlement case
MOSCOW (AP) ” A court in Kiev is hearing motions on the embezzlement case against Ukraine’s top tax official.Roman Nasirov, chief of the Ukrainian Fiscal Service, was detained over the weekend and instantly reported heart problems…. …read more Source: The New Zealand...
