Section: New Europe (EU)
Western concern about Russian direct involvement in Ukraine
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51603414.jpg Tensions remain high in eastern Ukraine, and especially in the separatist city of Donetsk, where convoys of unmarked vehicles, troops, and heavy weaponry were spotted and which saw some of the heaviest fighting in many weeks over the weekend. The European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has...
Ukraine: “illegal and illegitimate” elections in separatist territories
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51643722.jpg Two independence-seeking regions in eastern Ukraine held “presidential and parliamentary elections” on Sunday amid criticism from Kiev and the West. The Central Election Commission in Donetsk has announced the preliminary results. Facing no real opposition in so-called “presidential...
Rebels vote in eastern Ukraine, backed by Russia
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51645597.jpg Voting has started in rebel-held territories in eastern Ukraine where inhabitants of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions are called to elect legislators and executives in a vote that has been roundly condemned by the international community but backed by Russia. The Ukrainian government, the United States, the...
Another winter of discontent: talks on Russian gas for Ukraine deadlocked
Author(s): h_51640824.jpg Ukraine might need to brace itself for a long, cold winter, after’s talks in Brussels to unblock deliveries of Russian gas were deadlocked on Thursday, as the Russian side demanded a firm commitment from the EU to cover Kiev’s bill. EU-hosted talks were adjourned after dragging on until 4 AM. They should...
Kaspersky Net Analyst Says Sanctions Undermine Russia, Internet
Author(s): Kostis Geropoulos photo.jpg Baden, Austria – When Andrey Yarnykh, head of strategic projects at Russian multi-national computer security company Kaspersky Lab, spoke to New Europe one year ago in Montenegro the talk was dominated by Edward Snowden, the US whistleblower who fled to Russia after revealing the National Security...
International satisfecit for Ukraine elections
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51636953.jpg International observers gave Ukraine’s parliamentary election a stamp of approval today, while Russia said it hopes the vote will ease tension by ushering in a “constructive” government. With more than half the votes counted, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s Popular Front was leading...
Pro-Western parties win in Ukraine
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51637490.jpg Pro-Western parties will dominate Ukraine’s parliament following snap elections on October 26. President Petro Poroshenko called the early poll in a bid to set Ukraine on a new path eight months after pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted following opposition protests. Poroshenko’s bloc...
Voting in Ukraine… but not in the whole of it
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51629975.jpg Voting has started in Ukraine, with polls opening at 8 a.m. local time until at 8 p.m. Some 36.5 million voters are registered, but more than 4 million are located in parts of the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions controlled by pro-Russian separatists who have banned the vote. Poll officials say 15 out of 32...
After Rotenberg, Rosneft, Sberbank is now challenging EU sanctions
Author(s): h_51287619.jpg Russia’s top bank Sberbank said on Friday it had launched a legal challenge in a European Union court over Western sanctions imposed on the bank over the Ukraine crisis. The EU imposed sanctions on Sberbank over the summer, restricting its access to international capital, in a move linked to Russia’s role in...
After Rotenberg, Rosnef, Sberbank is now challenging EU sanctions
Author(s): h_51287619.jpg Russia’s top bank Sberbank said on Friday it had launched a legal challenge in a European Union court over Western sanctions imposed on the bank over the Ukraine crisis. The EU imposed sanctions on Sberbank over the summer, restricting its access to international capital, in a move linked to Russia’s role in...
