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[Ticker] Fifa defends plan to hold 2018 football cup in Russia
Fifa chief Blatter, in Moscow Tuesday unveiling the logo for Russia’s 2018 World Cup, criticised calls to boycott the event. He told RT: “We are not in politics. We are in sports”. A World Cup 2018 map projected onto the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow showed Crimea as part of Russia. …read more Source:...
Kaspersky Net Analyst Says Sanctions Undermine Russia, Internet
Author(s): Kostis Geropoulos photo.jpg Baden, Austria – When Andrey Yarnykh, head of strategic projects at Russian multi-national computer security company Kaspersky Lab, spoke to New Europe one year ago in Montenegro the talk was dominated by Edward Snowden, the US whistleblower who fled to Russia after revealing the National Security...
[Ticker] MH17 ‘not likely’ to have been result of accident, say investigators
The Dutch public prosecutor, who is investigating the July crash of the MH17 plane in Ukraine, is focussing on an attack from the ground or air. Two other scenarios – an accident or attack from within the plane – are “not likely”, the Dutch government told parliament in a letter. …read more Source:...
International satisfecit for Ukraine elections
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51636953.jpg International observers gave Ukraine’s parliamentary election a stamp of approval today, while Russia said it hopes the vote will ease tension by ushering in a “constructive” government. With more than half the votes counted, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s Popular Front was leading...
Pro-EU parties set for majority in Ukraine
The parties of President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk are running neck for neck as officials continue to count votes cast in Ukraine’s parliamentary elections yesterday (26 October). With 36.5% of the votes counted, polls suggest Yatsenyuk’s Popular Front has 21.6% and the Petro Poroshenko Bloc 21.5%. They are...
Pro-Western bloc wins Ukraine elections
Ukraine exit polls show a strong win for pro-Western parties, a snub to far-right factions, and a surprisingly good result for elements of the former regime. …read more Source:...
Pro-Western parties win in Ukraine
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51637490.jpg Pro-Western parties will dominate Ukraine’s parliament following snap elections on October 26. President Petro Poroshenko called the early poll in a bid to set Ukraine on a new path eight months after pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted following opposition protests. Poroshenko’s bloc...
Voting in Ukraine… but not in the whole of it
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51629975.jpg Voting has started in Ukraine, with polls opening at 8 a.m. local time until at 8 p.m. Some 36.5 million voters are registered, but more than 4 million are located in parts of the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions controlled by pro-Russian separatists who have banned the vote. Poll officials say 15 out of 32...
EU to increase Ebola budget to €1 billion
Leaders of the European Union’s member states today (24 October) agreed to increase the money available to combat the Ebola epidemic to €1 billion. This nearly doubles the amount committed by the EU so far. The fresh pledges came after a two-day summit of EU leaders that had seen the UK’s prime minister, David Cameron, castigate other...
EU leaders back €300bn investment plan
European Union leaders today (24 October) formally backed a €300 billion investment scheme proposed by Jean-Claude Juncker, the incoming European Commission president. The European Council called on the Commission, together with the European Investment Bank and the Council of Ministers, to present investment options at the next Council meeting,...
