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[Ticker] Ukraine bans Russian websites
Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, has banned several Russian internet services on Tuesday (16 May), as part of sanctions over Russia’s annexation of Crimea. The ban includes social media popular among Ukrainians, such as VKontakte, and search engine Yandex. Russia’s foreign ministry condemned the ban. Shortly after its...
[Ticker] EU states adopt Ukraine visa-free travel
EU states on Thursday adopted a regulation enabling Ukrainians with biometric passports to enter the EU (but not Ireland or the UK) without a visa for up to 90 days for “business, tourist or family purposes”. The visa-free regime is to enter into force 20 days after the European Parliament signs off on the accord on 17 May. Ukrainians...
EU visa waiver looms for Russia-annexed Crimeans
Visa liberalisation for Ukrainians entering the EU will also apply to inhabitants of the peninsula taken over by Moscow in 2014. But the issue poses administrative as well as political problems. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Merkel to hold Sochi talks with Putin
German chancellor Angela Merkel will meet Russian president Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in her first visit to Russia since 2015. The meeting, at Putin’s summer residence in Sochi, officially concerns the G20 summit to be held in Hamburg in July. Merkel is also expected to ask Putin to seek an end to the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria by using...
Russia threat triggers European military spending hike
Russia’s annexation of Crimea in Ukraine has intensified military and defence spending throughout much of Central Europe, according to a new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Land mine kills OSCE observer in Ukraine
One American paramedic working with the European security watchdog, OSCE, was killed and two field officers – one German and the other Czech – were wounded when their vehicle struck a land mine on Sunday while on patrol in eastern Ukrainian. The area is controlled by Russia-backed separatists. It is the first death of an OSCE official...
[Ticker] IMF approves Ukraine loan
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday (3 April) approved a $1 billion loan to Ukraine. The IMF said in a statement that the country’s economy was improving and had lowered inflation. The IMF is supporting Ukraine with a $17.5 billion bailout programme. The country has so far received around $8.38 billion under the programme, in...
[Focus] Nordic countries unite to reboot cooperation with Russia
Disagreements between Nordic countries and Russia on Crimea and Ukraine are briefly set aside at a conference on Arctic development. …read more Source:...
Ukraine law on NGOs is like ‘Putin’s Russia’
Amendments to Ukraine anti-corruption law designed to intimidate civil society and journalists in echoes of “Putin’s Russia”, NGOs said. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Putin meets Le Pen, speaks out on French election
Russian president Vladimir Putin held a surprise meeting with French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen in Moscow, Friday. He told press “we are not trying in any way to influence the French election”, according to the French language website of Russian state-sponsored media company Sputnik. Le Pen said, after earlier...
