Section: France
How did the political crisis in Moldova unfold and what happens next?
Pro-Europe and pro-Russian forces have long vied for supremacy Moldova, which finds itself nestled between Romania and Ukraine — here’s how the current political crisis unfolded. …read more Source:...
Ukraine and Russia clash over Crimea at the ICJ
Ukraine and Russia have concluded the first week of depositions at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Ukraine accuses Russia of not doing enough to prevent terrorism in its eastern Donbass region, and of violating the rights of Crimea’s Tatar population. …read more Source: Radio France...
Hungary boat crash: Arrested captain onboard different ship during another accident
Hungarian prosecutors say the Ukrainian captain arrested over the fatal sinking of The Mermaid in Budapest last week had been involved in another accident in the Netherlands in April …read more Source:...
Kateryna Handziuk: Five men jailed over acid attack on Ukraine anti-corruption activist
The 33-year-old died in November last year, three months after being attacked in the southern Ukrainian town of Kherson. …read more Source:...
Budapest shipwreck: captain of the cruise ship involved in the collision is arrested
Police have said in a statement that a 64 year old Ukrainian man has been taken into custody under suspicion of endangering water transport. …read more Source:...
The costs of Putin’s passports offer to separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine
Vladimir Putin’s controversial move to offer fast-tracked Russian passports to residents of separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine sparked outcry in Kyiv and other European capitals. What are the costs of such a move? …read more Source:...
Germany calls for peace process to be relaunched in eastern Ukraine
“We will continue to try and make peace possible in this country,” said Germany’s foreign affairs minister. …read more Source:...
Zelensky returns Ukrainian citizenship to former Georgian president Saakashvili
Volodymyr Zelensky returns the Ukrainian citizenship to the former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili who asked about it last week. Ukraine’s new leader amended the order of his predecessor Petro Poroshenko, who stripped Saakashvili of Ukraine’s citizenship back in July 2017. …read more Source:...
Russia ordered to release detained Ukrainian sailors by maritime tribunal
Moscow has been told by a maritime tribunal it must release 24 sailors that were aboard vessels it intercepted in the Kerch Strait in November 2018. …read more Source:...
Russia must free detained Ukraine sailors, ships, says UN agency
Moscow must release 24 sailors who were aboard three Ukrainian vessels it intercepted in November as they crossed a strait between Russian-annexed Crimea and southern Russia, an international maritime tribunal said on Saturday. …read more Source: France...
