Section: France 24 (France)
Dutch reject closer EU-Ukraine ties in referendum
Dutch voters have overwhelmingly rejected a Ukraine-European Union treaty on closer political and economic ties, in a rebuke to their government and to the European Union establishment. …read more Source: France...
Russian court sentences Ukrainian pilot Savchenko in murder case
A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko to 22 years in jail after finding her guilty of complicity in the killing of two Russian journalists during the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: France...
Ukraine marks second anniversary of Maidan protests
Ukrainians on Saturday marked the second anniversary of the violent Maidan protests in central Kiev that left more than 100 demonstrators and several policemen dead. …read more Source: France...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko asks Prime Minister Yatsenyuk to resign
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has asked Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and the country’s controversial prosecutor general to resign because both have lost the public’s trust, his spokesman said Tuesday. …read more Source: France...
IMF secures reform commitment from Ukraine after bailout warning
Ukraine’s president on Thursday told the International Monetary Fund he was committed to pursuing reforms to keep Kiev’s $17.5 billion IMF bailout on track, after a sharp warning from the lender that the funds were at risk. …read more Source: France...
Disgraced former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn joins Ukrainian bank
Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been appointed to the supervisory board of a bank owned by Ukraine’s second-richest businessman Viktor Pinchuk. …read more Source: France...
Crimea without power after pylons ‘blown up’
A state of emergency has been declared in Crimea after pylons carrying electricity from Ukraine were blown up cutting off power to almost two million people, media and the Russian government said on Sunday. …read more Source: France...
MH17 was shot down by Russian Buk missile, Dutch report concludes
Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board said on Tuesday in its final report on the July 2014 crash that killed all 298 aboard. …read more Source: France...
Dutch investigators to publish final report on downing of flight MH17
The Dutch Safety Board is publishing its final report Tuesday into what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 to break up high over eastern Ukraine last year, killing all 298 people on board. …read more Source: France...
Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine postpone disputed elections
Ukraine’s pro-Russian insurgents in the separatist provinces of Lugansk and Donetsk said in a joint statement Tuesday that they were pushing back the elections in the east to next year in line with Western demands. …read more Source: France...
