Section: The Netherlands
Russia wants Ukraine to hand over MH17 key witness: report
Russia wants the Ukraine to give possible MH17 key witness Vladimir Tsemach to them. Russia added the man to a list of prisoners the countries plan to exchange in the coming week, Het Parool reports based on reports from Ukrainian parliamentarian Mustafa Najem, editor of Ukrainian Tsenzor.net Yuri Bukusov, and independent Russian news site The...
Poorly regulated and rich in reach: online technologies in Ukraine’s elections
Ukraine’s politicians are eager to win hearts and minds onlineA polling station in central Kyiv, Ukraine, during parliamentary elections on 21 July 2019. Photo (c) by Maxim Edwards. On Sunday July 21, Ukrainian voters went to the polls to vote in a snap parliamentary election, called after President Volodymyr Zelensky, elected in March...
Ukraine says organiser of MH17 missile truck is arrested and jailed
Ukrainian security service officials say the man who organised the truck for the Russian Buk which shot down fight MH17… …read more Source:...
Netherlands commemorates 5th anniversary of MH17 disaster
Five years ago today Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, including 196 Dutch. The victims of this disaster were commemorated at the National MH17 Monument in Vijfhuizen on Wednesday afternoon. Submitted by Janene Pieters on July 17, 2019 – 18:39 …read more Source: NL...
Remembering the Victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 – Five Years Later
Wednesday marks five years since the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) over conflict-hit Ukraine on 17 July 2014. MH17 was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, with 283 passengers, including 80 children, and 15 crew members on board.Submitted by Keishel Williams on July 16, 2019 – 19:40 …read more Source: NL...
No ruling yet on Crimean treasure fate, court wants more information
The fate of a valuable collection of gold and other treasures from Crimea remains unclear after Amsterdam’s appeals court said… …read more Source:...
Macedonian PM publicly apologizes after he was deceived by pro-Kremlin Russian pranksters
Prime Minister of Republic of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev at the press conference about ‘Russian pranksters’ on 9 July 2019 in Skopje. Photo by Arbnora Mehmeti/Meta.mk CC-BY. This story originally appeared on Meta.mk News Agency, a project of Metamorphosis Foundation. An edited version is published below as part of a content-sharing...
Canada, Ukraine joins MH17 lawsuit against Russia
Ukraine and Canada have joined a lawsuit relatives of people killed in the MH17 disaster filed against Russia at the European Court of Human Rights, Sander de Lang, one of the lawyers representing relatives in this case, confirmed to NU.nl after a report in AD. The surviving relatives filed the complaint against Russia in 2016, holding the...
Ukraine reportedly detains MH17 witness
A Ukrainian special operations unit arrested a former military commander of the pro-Russian separatists last week. The man, 58-year-old Vladimir Tsemach, served as commander of air defense in the city of Snizhne, near the site from where the missile was fired that shot down Malaysia airlines flight MH17 in 2014, the Volkskrant reports based on...
Arrest of ‘possible MH17 witness’ in Ukraine
One man who may have witnessed the shooting down of the MH17 has reportedly been arrested by the Ukrainian secret… …read more Source:...
