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      Georgian Former President Saakashvili re-detained in Ukraine
      Feb12

      Georgian Former President Saakashvili re-detained in Ukraine

      The press office of Georgia s third President Mikheil Saakashvili who is in conflict with his former ally President Petro Poroshenko says that Saakashvili has been abducted from a restaurant in Kiev …read more Source:...

      Ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili Detained in Kyiv
      Feb12

      Ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili Detained in Kyiv

      The men who detained Saakashvili were allegedly members of the Ukrainian State Border Service. …read more Source:...

      Ukraine arrests Saakashvili in likely prelude to deportation
      Feb12

      Ukraine arrests Saakashvili in likely prelude to deportation

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      Dutch foreign minister admits to lying about meeting Vladimir Putin
      Feb12

      Dutch foreign minister admits to lying about meeting Vladimir Putin

      Dutch Foreign Minister Halbe Zijlstra has come under fire for lying about attending a meeting with Vladimir Putin in 2006, Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant reported Monday. At a party conference in 2016, the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) politician claimed he was present at a 2006 meeting in which the Russian president laid...

      Debate: Ukraine: crackdown on critical media?
      Feb12

      Debate: Ukraine: crackdown on critical media?

      The editorial offices of the Ukrainian daily newspaper Vesti have been raided because the owner of its holding company, ex-finance minister Oleksandr Klymenko, is under investigation for corruption. The building has been transferred to a managing company whose employees have destroyed the inventory, witnesses claim. Ukrainian journalists write...

      Opposition leader Saakashvili detained in Kiev, facing deportation: spokeswoman
      Feb12

      Opposition leader Saakashvili detained in Kiev, facing deportation: spokeswoman

      KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili was detained in Kiev on Monday by unidentified people in camouflage, his spokeswoman said, adding that the intention might be to deport him from Ukraine. …read more Source:...

      Former Georgia leader claims political plot to force him from Ukraine
      Feb10

      Former Georgia leader claims political plot to force him from Ukraine

      Ukrainian court rejected Mikheil Saakashvili’s appeal for protection against extraditionThe former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili says he is the victim of an international plot to “squeeze” him out of Ukraine, where he has emerged as a vocal critic of the country’s president, Petro Poroshenko.A court in Kiev, the Ukrainian...

      Antony Beevor: why did Ukraine ban my book?
      Feb10

      Antony Beevor: why did Ukraine ban my book?

      After the Ukraine government condemned his book Stalingrad, Antony Beevor reflects on governments’ desire to alter the past and warns of the dangers of censorshipAccording to an old Spanish proverb, “history is a common meadow in which everyone can make hay”. It has also long been a battleground for the perpetuation of nationalist myths and...

      Stalingrad author Anthony Beevor speaks out over Ukraine book ban
      Feb10

      Stalingrad author Anthony Beevor speaks out over Ukraine book ban

      Historian says prohibition of his book, over passage detailing wartime murder of Jewish children by Ukrainian militia, is ‘utterly outrageous’Leading British historian Antony Beevor has described a Ukrainian ban on his award-winning book Stalingrad as “utterly outrageous”.The bestselling history, winner of the 1999 Samuel Johnson prize,...

      My grandfather, who finally came back from the second world war in 1981
      Feb10

      My grandfather, who finally came back from the second world war in 1981

      Katja Petrowskaja gained a grandfather when she was 10. He turned up after an absence of 40 years – but where had he been? And had he done or seen something so horrific it made it impossible for him to return? She resolved to find outI had two grandmothers with floral names: Rosa and Margarita. They were too old to enjoy their retirement, and...