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Joe Biden calls for release of Trump’s  phone call with Ukraine
Sep21

Joe Biden calls for release of Trump’s phone call with Ukraine

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday called on President Donald Trump to make public a July phone call at the center of a report that Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to find dirt on Biden’s family. “If these reports are true, then there is truly no bottom to President Trump’s willingness to...

Russia’s idols versus Putin | Novoye Vremya – Ukraine
Sep20

Russia’s idols versus Putin | Novoye Vremya – Ukraine

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‘Of course I did’: Giuliani acknowledges asking Ukraine to investigate Biden
Sep20

‘Of course I did’: Giuliani acknowledges asking Ukraine to investigate Biden

Rudy Giuliani acknowledged on Thursday that he had asked top Ukrainian officials to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, an admission that comes as Capitol Hill Democrats investigate whether President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer are pressuring Ukraine’s government to dig up dirt on a 2020 election rival. “So you did ask...

[Ticker] Russia-Ukraine gas deal talks show ‘progress’
Sep20

[Ticker] Russia-Ukraine gas deal talks show ‘progress’

Trilateral talks about gas from Russia being transported to Europe through Ukraine were “constructive” and have progressed, the EU’s energy commissioner Maros Sefcovic said Thursday. “There was convergence of the position on most of the issues we discussed,” he said after a third round of talks. The current long-term...

[Ticker] Minsk talks bode ill for EU’s peace summit on Ukraine
Sep19

[Ticker] Minsk talks bode ill for EU’s peace summit on Ukraine

Russian troops must leave Russia-occupied east Ukraine, among other conditions, before Kiev agrees to give the self-proclaimed “republics” there greater autonomy, Ukrainian negotiators said in Minsk on Wednesday at a meeting of a Contact Group on the conflict. The group, which includes Russia, is trying to pave the way for an...

[Opinion] EU must give full support to Ukraine to dissuade Kremlin
Sep16

[Opinion] EU must give full support to Ukraine to dissuade Kremlin

With Donald Trump unable to fill the US’s traditional role of standing up to authoritarian regimes – and his inner circle even putting pressure on Kiev to investigate the Democratic frontrunner, Joe Biden – Europe should take a harder line. …read more Source::...

EU defense commissioner may face turf wars
Sep12

EU defense commissioner may face turf wars

The first shots Sylvie Goulard is likely to take will come from the European Union’s closest allies. By putting the former French defense minister in charge of a new directorate general for defense industries and space, incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has flagged her ambition for Europe to take more...

Putin’s star is fading
Sep11

Putin’s star is fading

For democracy activists in Russia, the real victory this week isn’t that Vladimir Putin’s party performed so poorly in Sunday’s Moscow city council election. That’s just a consequence of a far more important change in the country: the shattering of a feeling of helplessness in the face of the government’s authority....

[Ticker] EU does not recognise Russian elections in Crimea
Sep10

[Ticker] EU does not recognise Russian elections in Crimea

On Sunday, local and regional elections were held in the Russian federation and in the Crimean peninsula. But “anybody elected in the Crimean peninsula claiming to ‘represent’ the populations of Crimea and Sevastopol will not be recognised as representatives of those territories, which are Ukrainian”, the spokesperson of...

[Ticker] EU to host Russia-Ukraine talks on winter gas
Sep09

[Ticker] EU to host Russia-Ukraine talks on winter gas

The EU will host talks on winter gas supplies between Russian and Ukrainian energy chiefs in Brussels on 19 September, EU energy commissioner Maros Sefcovic has said. “Progress would send a strong positive signal to the market as well as consumers ahead of the winter season,” he noted. A Russia-Ukraine transit accord expires in...