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[Ticker] Ukraine reports worst violence in six months
Ukraine said Tuesday its forces suffered the heaviest shelling since February on Monday in what it called “a dangerous indication” of renewed hostilities. International monitors, the OSCE, Monday described the situation as “volatile”. Four of its vehicles were set on fire in Russian-occupied Donetsk on Sunday. …read...
[Ticker] Poland is most anti-Russia EU state
US pollster Pew reports that Poles (80%) and Jordanians (80%) have the most “unfavourable” view of Russia worldwide, higher than Ukraine (72%), and higher than Germany (70%) or France (70%). China, Vietnam, and Ghana were among a handful of states where the majority of respondents were “favourable”. …read more...
[Ticker] EU, Russia, Ukraine to resume gas talks
Ukraine says three-way ministerial level talks on gas supplies will resume at a meeting in Vienna at the end of August. Russia separately announced its project to bypass Ukraine gas transit systems to the EU from 2019, the Turkish Stream pipeline, is to cost €11.4 billion. …read more Source:...
If Minsk fails, let Moscow pay
The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany held a conference call last month to discuss the peace process in Eastern Ukraine. During their two-hour conversation, Presidents Putin, Poroshenko, Hollande and Chancellor Merkel agreed that all the terms of the Minsk-2 ceasefire agreement must be implemented by the end of 2015. Notwithstanding...
[Ticker] EU extends aid to farmers hit by Russian sanctions
The European Commission on 7 August extended until June 2016 “the safety net measures for the European fruit and vegetables sector” after Russia extended, for a year, its ban on EU products in retaliation for EU sanctions. The measures, decided in August last year, have so far cost €155 million. …read more Source:...
How a secretive US agency discovered the A-bomb’s effect on people
When the the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, 15-year-old Do-oh Mineko was working inside a Mitsubishi factory, eagerly awaiting her lunch break. The massive concrete and steel factory imploded on top of her and thousands of other adults and young people. Doh-oh sustained severe injuries, including a large gash at the...
Obama’s proliferation problem
When President Barack Obama this week repeated John F. Kennedy’s 1963 call for a “more practical, more attainable peace” in his pitch for the Iran nuclear agreement, absent was any mention of the broader mission both presidents proclaimed: “global disarmament.” In 2009, Obama electrified much of the global nonproliferation movement by...
The contract that almost sank two ships
After a year of negotiations, French President François Hollande confirmed Friday that his government would refund Russia a sum “under €1.2 billion” for not delivering two Mistral warships. Exactly how much France must pay has been the subject of much media speculation. Le Figaro reported that the bill would end up being below €1 billion. Russian...
Russia steps up war on terroir
Russian authorities have bulldozed and burnt a huge pile of food imported from the West — leading to an outcry by anti-poverty campaigners. Russia announced an import ban on food products from the European Union and the United States last August in response to the sanctions imposed on it because of its actions in Ukraine. To mark the one-year...
Let Ukrainians come to Latvia, not Africans | Neatkarīgā – Latvia
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