Section: The United Kingdom
Mikhail Fridman shows the downside of being a Russian oligarch
Steering a tricky path ONE QUESTION, with two meanings, has bookended Vladimir Putin’s reign: who’s next? As he tamed Russia’s tycoons in the early 2000s, Moscow’s power-brokers wondered whom he would next dispatch to exile or prison. After the dismemberment of Ukraine, the question took on a new connotation: who will be...
U.S. military carries out Open Skies flight over Ukraine
The U.S. military said on Thursday it carried out an “extraordinary” flight over Ukraine under the Open Skies Treaty to reaffirm its commitment to the country after Russia seized three Ukrainian naval vessels off Crimea. …read more Source:...
Ukraine asks West to ramp up sanctions on Russia
Ukraine urged a gathering of dozens of foreign ministers on Thursday to increase sanctions against Russia, accusing Moscow of ramping up aggression against Kiev and sowing “instability and insecurity” across the West. …read more Source:...
Russia ATTACKS: Embassy in bizarre assault on UK over Ukraine crisis – STOP STIRRING!
BRITAIN has been accused of using the deepening crisis in the Ukraine as an excuse to stir up anti-Russian rhetoric in an extraordinary attack by Kremlin diplomats. …read more Source:...
The letters that won the war
In their correspondence, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin displayed the combination of realpolitik, illusion and hubris that is essential for really creative diplomacy. So what exactly did Donald Trump say to Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in July 2018? No, not what Trump said he said when tweeting the tweet fantastic or in one of his fake-news...
Caught in Russia-Ukraine storm: a cargo ship and tonnes of grain
When the Island Bay cargo ship arrived from Beirut at the Kerch Strait, gateway to the Azov Sea, it sailed into a perfect storm of geopolitics and bad weather. …read more Source:...
Russia holds drills in Black Sea region amid Ukraine tensions
Russia is holding naval and surface-to-air missile drills in the Black Sea region amid tensions with Ukraine and the West over the capture of three Ukrainian naval ships and their crews off the coast of Crimea last month. …read more Source:...
Ukraine council to meet on December 15 to form independent church: president
A Ukrainian church council will meet on December 15 in order to create an independent Orthodox church and elect its leader, President Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday. …read more Source:...
Russian threat highest since 2014: Ukraine military chief
Russia has been ramping up its forces near the border with Ukraine since August and now poses the greatest military threat since 2014, the year Moscow annexed Crimea, the commander of Ukraine’s armed forces told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s ports partially unblocked by Russia, says Kiev
Minister thanks ‘stern international response’ as shipping resumesShipping traffic has resumed to and from Ukraine’s ports on the Sea of Azov following a standoff with Russia, a Ukrainian minister has said.Commercial ships were moving through the Kerch strait linking the Sea of Azov with the Black Sea, the infrastructure minister,...
