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Death toll in Ukraine conflict exceeds 5,000, says UN human rights agency
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51742136.jpg The United Nations says that at least 5,000 people have been killed in the conflict in eastern Ukraine since April and that the real figure may be “considerably higher.” UN human rights spokesman Rupert Colville said the toll incudes 262 people killed in the past nine days, making that “the...
Increased EU financial aid to Ukraine
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51548971.jpg The European Union will discuss next Tuesday increasing the bloc’s emergency aid to Ukraine to as much as 2.5 billion euros, more than the 1.8 billion euros already proposed by the European Commission, diplomats told Reuters. Meanwhile, Russian natural gas producer Gazprom said on Friday that Ukraine had...
Kiev sacrificing democracy in Donbass | Tages-Anzeiger – Switzerland
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Latvia spells out its health policy ambitions
Guntis Belēvičs, Latvia’s health minister, has given European Voice a personal take on his country’s ambitions in the health field during its presidency of the EU’s Council of Ministers in the first half of this year. “Until now, we’ve been treating those who are ill. We’ve reached a point where it makes sense to...
Russia suspends official EU parliament visits
Russia has said MEPs are not welcome on official visits due, in part, to the European Parliament’s recent resolutions on the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] EU energy chief dismisses proposed Russia-Turkey pipeline
European commissioner for energy Maros Sefcovic told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that Russian plans to build a gas pipeline in Turkey to bypass Ukraine were unrealistic. “A first assessment is that this would not work,” he said. Russia’s state-owned Gazprom announced the plan in December. …read more Source:...
HIV epidemic sweeps across east Europe as economic crisis threatens
HIV is spreading at a dangerous rate in nations around the Black Sea, with the hotspots being Ukraine and Russia. …read more Source:...
Despite sanctions, Exxon, Rosneft tap Russian Arctic field
Author(s): Kostis Geropoulos sakhalin_web.jpg Despite US and the EU sanctions targeting Russia’s big Arctic and Siberia shale oil ambitions, US major Exxon Mobil and Russian state oil company Rosneft have begun producing from the third and final field of the Sakhalin-1 offshore project in Russia’s Far East. …read more Source:...
Bus shelled in Ukraine, at least 9 dead
Author(s): NEOnline | KT ukraine.jpg At least 9 people have been killed in in east Ukraine after a city bus was hit by an artillery shell. The shell struck the vehicle Thursday morning in Donetsk, instantly killing numerous passengers and blowing out the windows of a nearby building. A rebel official at the site said up to 10 people may have been...
Lithuania: a citizens' manual in case of foreign invasion
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51408235.jpg Lithuania’s defense ministry is advising its citizens how to react in case of war, reflecting jitters over neighboring Russia’s intervention in Ukraine and a recent increase of reported airspace violations in the Baltic region. The 98-page booklet, entitled “How to act in extreme situations or...
