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      Hundreds protest as top Ukrainian court examines challenge to civil service purge
      Apr16

      Hundreds protest as top Ukrainian court examines challenge to civil service purge

      Hundreds of Ukrainians demonstrated in Kyiv on Thursday in support of a controversial law that aims to cleanse the new government of any remnants of… …read more Source:...

      Ukraine crisis: Life in a bitterly contested village that has changed sides repeatedly throughout the conflict
      Apr16

      Ukraine crisis: Life in a bitterly contested village that has changed sides repeatedly throughout the conflict

      Irina Strezhak begs the international monitors who have arrived near her bombed-out home in the besieged Ukrainian village of Shyrokyne for sleeping pills. …read more Source: The...

      VIDEO: New Antonov Bureau aircraft revealed
      Apr16

      VIDEO: New Antonov Bureau aircraft revealed

      Ukrainian aircraft producer Antonov Bureau has unveiled its new transport aircraft as it seeks new markets and opportunities, amid the conflict in east Ukraine. …read more Source:...

      Journalist with pro-Russian views shot dead in Kyiv
      Apr16

      Journalist with pro-Russian views shot dead in Kyiv

      A journalist known for his pro-Russian views was shot dead in Kyiv on Thursday (April 16). Oles Buzyna was “gunned… …read more Source:...

      Ukraine plays hardball on restructuring
      Apr16

      Ukraine plays hardball on restructuring

      Country said to be prepared to let state-owned lender Ukreximbank default …read more Source: Financial...

      Putin Considers War with Ukraine Impossible, Has No Imperial Ambitions
      Apr16

      Putin Considers War with Ukraine Impossible, Has No Imperial Ambitions

      Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed a possible war between Moscow and Kiev and said that he did not harbour any ambitions of reviving the Russian empire. These statement were made during the annual televised question and answer session, which was held on Thursday. Putin answered a total of 90 questions during the “Direct Line with Vladimir...

      Dutch shift focus in MH17 crash to investigating culprits
      Apr16

      Dutch shift focus in MH17 crash to investigating culprits

      THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The Dutch government said on Thursday that, with nearly all of the victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 identified, efforts had shifted to finding those responsible for shooting the plane down as it crossed Ukraine last July. …read more Source:...

      Russia-Japan relations over disputed islands unchanged after Crimea: Putin
      Apr16

      Russia-Japan relations over disputed islands unchanged after Crimea: Putin

      MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s relations with Japan over disputed Pacific Islands have not changed following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. …read more Source:...

      Fight the good fight
      Apr16

      Fight the good fight

      FROM the Sea of Azov to Aleppo, fighters from the western Balkans are at war. So worried are their governments that laws have been passed to make fighting abroad illegal, and their security services co-operate with foreign ones to monitor them. The numbers are small, but the Balkans looms relatively large on foreign battlefields. Orthodox...

      How Vladimir Putin tries to stay strong
      Apr16

      How Vladimir Putin tries to stay strong

      A RELATIVE hiatus in the fighting in eastern Ukraine (at least until this week) and a relative stabilisation in the Russian economy are prompting two questions. Is the worst of the war over and might better economic news calm the Kremlin—or is this a lull before a new storm? The economic situation is not as bad as many predicted four months ago....