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Russia and Ukraine strike gas deal
Mar03

Russia and Ukraine strike gas deal

Russia and Ukraine reached an understanding late Monday night (2 March), after hours of talks brokered by the European Union, that will avert a threatened cut to gas supplies to Ukraine. “I am satisfied that we managed to safeguard the full application of the Winter Package for the supply needs in Ukraine,” said Maroš Šefčovič, the European...

Ukraine and Russia strike fragile deal on gas deliveries
Mar03

Ukraine and Russia strike fragile deal on gas deliveries

A gas deal brokered by the EU secures deliveries until end of March and leaves aside the issue of rebel-held areas. …read more Source:...

Norway hosts high-level Northern European defence talks
Mar02

Norway hosts high-level Northern European defence talks

Author(s): NEOnline | TB nordef.jpg Norway’s Defence Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide hosted colleagues and other government representatives from 12 European countries in Oslo to discuss security issues. As reported in the local media, Søreide focussed on Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and its aggression against Ukraine. This also...

Brussels emergency talks on Russian gas for Ukraine
Mar02

Brussels emergency talks on Russian gas for Ukraine

Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51803091.jpg Russia and Ukraine’s energy ministers are holding emergency talks in Brussels as Russian gas giant Gazprom threatens to cut off deliveries to Ukraine for lack of payment. European Union energy spokesperson Anna-Kaisa Itkonen said Monday that the EU’s executive Commission will mediate between the...

Kremlin turns on the propaganda machine | Der Standard – Austria
Mar02

Kremlin turns on the propaganda machine | Der Standard – Austria

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Putin morally responsible | Polityka Online – Poland
Mar02

Putin morally responsible | Polityka Online – Poland

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Russians should follow Nemtsov’s example | Lidové noviny – Czech Republic
Mar02

Russians should follow Nemtsov’s example | Lidové noviny – Czech Republic

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Mass rally for murdered politician in Moscow
Mar02

Mass rally for murdered politician in Moscow

Thousands of people marched in Moscow on Sunday (1 March) to honour Boris Nemtsov, an opposition politician who was killed on Friday. Nemtsov, 55, was shot on a bridge near the Kremlin. He was a top official in the Republican Party of Russia/Party of People’s Freedom, a liberal opposition group. Nemtsov has been a vocal critic of Vladimir...

Defeat for Putin in Estonia, as pro-NATO party claims victory
Mar02

Defeat for Putin in Estonia, as pro-NATO party claims victory

Author(s): Dan Alexe Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas.jpg There were fears that Putin might come to rule through proxy in tiny Estonia, after the pro-Moscow Centre Party had been given favourite by practically every poll, but Estonia’s ruling Reform Party has emerged as the overall winner in Sunday’s general election dominated by...

Petro (Poroshenko) and the Chocolate Factory
Mar02

Petro (Poroshenko) and the Chocolate Factory

Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51804441.jpg He had promised last year that, were he to win the presidential election, he would sell his chocolate factories, in order to be able to concentrate on the defence of the Fatherland. After all, even Ukraine’s Constitution bars (no pun on chocolate intended) him from running such businesses, in parallel...