Section: The United Kingdom
Ukraine crisis creates UK tensions
Ukraine crisis creating high-level UK tensions …read more Source:...
Ben Jennings on Russia’s defiance cartoon
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Ukraine premier stays on, envoys agree on crash site route
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament rejected Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk’s resignation on Thursday and finally passed legislation he said was needed to finance an army offensive against a separatist rebellion in the east and avert a national default on its debts. …read more Source:...
Sberbank target of latest EU sanctions
Sberbank, Russia’s largest state lender, is the most high profile target of the latest round of EU sanctions …read more Source: Financial...
Sanctions can help break the spiral of war
Latest measures will not end Russia’s military actions in Ukraine, though they will sound alarm bells among its economic elite …read more Source: Financial...
Instagram pictures suggest Russian soldier served in Ukraine
Russian MP prepares legal changes to crack down on social media access after series of embarrassments …read more Source: The...
Why nothing will dent Vladimir Putins soaring popularity at home | Marc Bennetts
Neither western sanctions nor claims of Russias involvement in flight MH17 influence its citizens, who live on a diet of state propagandaThere is a satirical cartoon doing the rounds online in Russia that depicts a figure slouched in front of a television set, both the screen and the anonymous viewers brain filled with identical swirls of...
Crash investigators access MH17 site
Ukraine says military operations against Russian-backed separatists have been halted for one day in a 20-kilometre vicinity around the crash site …read more Source: Financial...
Sanctions on Russia: This is going to hurt
IT MAY not be, as leaders in Washington and Brussels insist, the start of a new cold war. But the punitive sanctions against Russia announced by the European Union and America on July 29th bring to an end a 25-year-long quest to make Moscow a partner of the West. How long the rupture will last and whether it intensifies will depend upon the...
The war in Ukraine: Closing in
THE battle for eastern Ukraine may be entering a decisive phase. Since early July Ukraine’s re-energised armed forces have been on the offensive against 15,000 or so Russian-backed separatists. The Ukrainians are close to achieving two important objectives: surrounding Donetsk, the region’s biggest city, and establishing some control...
