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[Ticker] Russia gas pipeline sees Bulgaria and Greece dump Ukraine
Feb09

[Ticker] Russia gas pipeline sees Bulgaria and Greece dump Ukraine

Russia’s TurkStream pipeline with Turkey to south-east Europe, which began work in January, has seen Bulgaria and Greece get almost all their gas via the new route this year, instead of via Ukraine, as before, according to UK energy consultancy Platts. Bulgaria received some 6.4 billion cubic metres via Ukraine last year, and “almost...

Protests should be about freedom for everyone | NV – Ukraine
Feb01

Protests should be about freedom for everyone | NV – Ukraine

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Denial was a tactical error | NV – Ukraine
Jan28

Denial was a tactical error | NV – Ukraine

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[Ticker] Putin holds out olive branch to Europe
Jan28

[Ticker] Putin holds out olive branch to Europe

Russian leader Vladimir Putin told the ‘virtual Davos’ event Wednesday that: “Of course, Western Europe and Russia should be together.” They should “get rid of the phobias of the past”, he added. “We’re ready for it, we want it,” he said, amid potential, new EU sanctions over his jailing of...

[Ticker] US snatched Russian anti-air system from Libya warlord
Jan28

[Ticker] US snatched Russian anti-air system from Libya warlord

US operatives recently recovered a Russian ‘Pantsir S-1’ anti-aircraft rocket system from Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar and flew it intact to Germany to collect intelligence, British newspaper The Times reported Wednesday. Russia had sold it to the Emirates, who gave it to Haftar. The US went after it amid fears of a repeat of MH17 in...

[Ticker] Swedish minister reminds Europe of Russia’s war
Jan22

[Ticker] Swedish minister reminds Europe of Russia’s war

Swedish foreign minister Ann Linde said she welcomed the “lower level of violence” in Russia’s war in eastern Ukraine, after visiting the front line in her role as the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s chair. “However, lives are still being lost and the everyday life of citizens in this region is...

[Ticker] EU urges Ukraine to solve journalist murder case
Jan12

[Ticker] EU urges Ukraine to solve journalist murder case

“Freedom of the media as well as an effective and independent judiciary are central elements of our relations with Ukraine,” Peter Stano, the EU foreign service spokesman, said Tuesday following new developments in the trial, in Kiev, of the alleged killers of journalist Pavel Sheremet in 2016. The EU has “repeatedly called on...

[Interview] 2014: Ukraine: ‘He told me he loved me then said goodbye’
Dec29

[Interview] 2014: Ukraine: ‘He told me he loved me then said goodbye’

20 February 2014, and snipers had just opened fire on protesters in Maidan square in Kiev, in the final act of a revolution which led, one day later, to the fall of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and to Russia’s invasion. …read more Source::...

Too many open questions | KP – Ukraine
Dec08

Too many open questions | KP – Ukraine

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Debate: Row between Hungary and Ukraine
Dec07

Debate: Row between Hungary and Ukraine

A fierce dispute has broken out between Ukraine and Hungary. In the run-up to Ukraine’s local elections, Budapest’s representative for the Hungarian minority in the country, István Gerzsa, visited the Hungarian party KMKSZ. Kiev protested, saying this was interference, and denied Gerzsa entry for his next visits. Orbán’s Fidesz...