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Ukraine must drain corruption swamp, Saakashvili says in latest comeback
Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia, vowed on Friday to help his new boss, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, clean out a political “swamp” of oligarchs’ interests that he said were preventing Ukraine prospering. …read more Source::...
Georgian ex-President Saakashvili toasts appointment to Ukraine reform role
Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia, was appointed on Thursday to a senior role at an advisory body on reforms chaired by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. …read more Source::...
Mikheil Saakashvili appointed to spearhead reform drive in Ukraine
Georgian once mooted as next deputy prime minister, takes on top co-ordinating role …read more Source:: Financial...
Reaction: Donald Trump denies links to failed military coup in Venezuela
Description President Nicolas Maduro claims the US and Colombia are behind the attack Credits Andrew Burton/Getty Images Alt Text Maduro has banned opposition parties from the 2018 election Two Americans reportedly arrested following ‘inept’ bid to overthrow Nicolas Maduro …read more Source:: The...
Invoking Cossack resistance, Ukrainian mayor defies lockdown measures
The mayor of a town in central Ukraine has unilaterally decided to ease lockdown restrictions, causing a row with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s government as it seeks to avoid a second wave of novel coronavirus infections. …read more Source::...
Mosaic glorifying Crimea annexation ditched from new Russian cathedral
Kremlin distances itself from artwork of Putin and other officials after leaked photographs prompt ridiculeA mosaic depicting Vladimir Putin and other top Russian officials will not be mounted in the Russian military’s new megachurch, a senior church official has said, after leaked photos of the artwork prompted public ridicule and received...
A former president of Georgia tries to shake up Ukraine
THE LAST time Mikheil Saakashvili grabbed the headlines in Ukraine was when he was filmed climbing onto the roof of an apartment block in Kyiv, the capital, as he was being chased by security men. That was in December 2017, when the former president of Georgia, who had bizarrely become a prominent politician in Ukraine, was being hounded by...
Ukraine says still far from ‘all for all’ prisoner swaps with Russia
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Thursday that Kiev and Moscow were still far from finalising a prisoner swap of all inmates. …read more Source::...
Coronavirus no excuse to block peace monitoring in Eastern Ukraine: foreign ministers
The coronavirus epidemic must not be used as an excuse to hinder the work of international observers monitoring the ceasefire in force in Eastern Ukraine, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Thursday. …read more Source::...
Health minister urges patience as Ukraine passes 10,000 coronavirus cases
Ukraine reached 10,000 coronavirus cases on Thursday and its health minister urged people not to violate lockdown measures that have kept the country’s death toll much lower than in much of western Europe. …read more Source::...
