Section: New Europe (EU)
NATO summit to discuss Ukraine, Russia, Islamic threats
Author(s): Dan Alexe 51550563.jpg NATO has begun a two-day summit in Wales expected to focus on the situation in Ukraine, while approving a plan to bolster NATO’s presence along the alliance’s eastern borders. U.S. President Barack Obama and leaders of other NATO member states are meeting at Celtic Manor in south Wales to discuss a...
Russian Ambassador to the EU speaks to New Europe
Author(s): New Europe Russian Ambassador to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov’s interview LIVE New Europe: Well, Ambassador, it seems that you can take Kiev in two weeks? It’s been said in a conversation between President Putin and President of the Commission Jose Manuel Barroso. Vladimir Chizhov: Were you there, listening, eavesdropping? NE:...
Ceasefire plan for Ukraine eases Russia sanctions risk
Author(s): Kostis Geropoulos putin_web.jpg After conflicting reports on a possible ceasefire deal for Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on September 3 that he and his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko have agreed to the outlines of a plan to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: New...
Ukraine crisi: Poroshenko and Putin agree "permanent truce”
Author(s): Dan Alexe 51549822.jpg Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s office says Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed today on a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine. In a statement on Poroshenko’s website, his press service said the agreement was reached during a telephone conversation with Putin said that...
Russia, the West buying time before the NATO summit
Author(s): Dan Alexe putin_barroso.jpg Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on 2 September accused Western nations and NATO of supporting what he called the “party of war” in Kiev. Lavrov referring in part to calls by senior Ukrainian officials for the country to abandon its non-aligned status and seek NATO membership. NATO, at a...
The Kremlin: Barroso unworthy of trust
Author(s): Dan Alexe 51534960.jpg A Russian official is complaining that EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso breached confidentiality when he quoted President Vladimir Putin as saying Moscow could take over Kiev in two weeks if it wished. …read more Source: New...
Russia, EU try to assess the effect of reciprocal sanctions
Author(s): Dan Alexe ukrainian_soldiers_of_the_battalion_azov_guard_the_battalions_base_in_mariupol_donetsk_region_ukraine_31_august_2014._.jpg Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on September 1 that the Russian military would not intervene in Ukraine, even as Kiev announced that Ukrainian troops are battling a Russian tank division in...
Poroshenko happy with EU cooperation, expecting to receive non-lethel weapons
Author(s): Konstantin Tsapogas – von Taube poroshenko_van_r.jpg Satisfied with the full coordination between the EU and Ukraine, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said that, while security issues will be discussed at next weeks NATO summit in Wales, his country will receive non-lethal weapons from EU member states. …read more...
Claims of Russian invasion in E. Ukraine is misinformation says Russian Ambassador to the EU
Author(s): NEOnline | KT ukraine_pro_russian.jpg “A number of media outlets have recently been spreading Ukrainian claims that “Russian military invasion in Ukraine” was under way and demands of “decisive action of the West”. It is highly regrettable that the new wave of Kiev’s propaganda on the situation in Ukraine is being...
Russia snubs dollar, welcomes rubles, yuan for oil
Author(s): Kostis Geropoulos p13web.jpg Lessening its dependency on the US dollar in an era when the West is imposing sanctions on Moscow in response to the ongoing Ukraine crisis, Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russian gas monopoly Gazprom, said it has agreed to accept rubles and the Chinese yuan for crude oil deliveries. …read more Source:...
