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Joe Biden: Ukraine must reform or EU may lift Russia sanctions
Ukraine must make progress on promised economic and political reforms or the EU could backtrack on sanctions it imposed on Russia after the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in 2014, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden warned on Wednesday, Reuters reported. “We know that if they give an excuse to the EU, there are at least five countries...
Hillary Clinton’s pivot to Europe
When Hillary Clinton resigned as U.S. secretary of state in 2013, Beijing wasn’t sorry to see her go. In her four years in office, the former first lady and senator had gained a reputation in China as a source of hostility in an administration that had otherwise tried to be accommodating. In particular, Clinton rankled Beijing by rallying...
A Toxic Mix of Illegal Logging and Corruption Is Devastating Europe’s Last Primeval Forests
A screen shot from ‘Clear Cut Crimes’ documentary by OCCRP and RISE Project. Earlier this week, journalists from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and the RISE Project published a new documentary studying the effects of illegal logging in Romania and Ukraine. The film, titled “Clear Cut Crimes,” examines the collusion of...
Biden warns Ukraine on reforms, says EU sanctions on Russia at risk
(Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday warned Ukraine needs to live up to its promises economic and political reforms or risk seeing the European Union walk away from its sanctions on Russia. …read more Source:...
Russian ‘lies’ worse than Soviet era, Ukraine’s Poroshenko tells U.N.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko made a scathing attack on neighboring Russia on Wednesday, accusing it of “lies and manipulations” that even Soviet leaders at the height of the Cold War had not dared. …read more Source:...
Contact group on Ukraine to reconvene in Minsk on 5 October
The negotiations held on 21 September focused on exchange of prisoners of war, the modality of municipal elections in several areas of Donetsk Oblast and Lugansk Oblast, security and infrastructure restoration in the conflict zone. …read more Source:...
Framework agreement on separating warring sides in Ukraine hailed as leap forward
“It is a big and important step forward. The leaders of Russia and Ukraine as well as Germany and France have been looking forward to it. I think not only those countries,” said Martin Sajdik. …read more Source:...
Ukraine, Russia eager to discuss restoration of power lines in conflict zone
Martin Sajdik said: “Last time I said that top officials of the Ukrainian and Russian energy ministries were supposed to meet today. The meeting didn’t happen, unfortunately. But the sides have confirmed their resolution to meet soon.” …read more Source:...
Ukraine, separatists agree troop withdrawals in three hot spots
MINSK (Reuters) – Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists agreed on Wednesday to withdraw troops from three small towns on the front line in eastern Ukraine, a pilot de-escalation project that is part of the latest push to get a much-violated ceasefire to stick. …read more Source:...
OSCE, Russia, Ukraine sign framework agreement on separating forces
The agreement provides for de-escalation along the contact line and enables conditions prohibitive to small-arms fire. The framework agreement also provides for the full execution of the trilateral contact group’s previous agreements on withdrawing weapons with the caliber of less than 100mm away from the contact line. …read more...
