Section: The United Kingdom
Putin’s proposed U.N. Ukraine peacekeepers must have full access: Merkel
BERLIN(Reuters) – Any United Nations peacekeepers sent to eastern Ukraine must be granted access to the entirety of the region held by Moscow-backed separatists, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said. …read more Source:...
Putin’s proposed U.N. Ukraine peacekeepers must have full access: Merkel
BERLIN(Reuters) – Any United Nations peacekeepers sent to eastern Ukraine must be granted access to the entirety of the region held by Moscow-backed separatists, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said. …read more Source:...
Can Ukraine pave an economic path back to normality?
Three years after Ukraine sank into conflict, its government is pursuing economic reforms. The issue of new Eurobonds by Ukraine expected next week will mark the biggest step the country has taken to recover its economic sovereignty since Russia initiated armed aggression against it in 2014. Not many Ukraine watchers expected the country to...
Migrants stuck on endless ferry journey as countries refuse entry
Men stowed away on Istanbul to Odessa ferry and are stuck at sea while both Turkey and Ukraine refuse to take themTwelve migrants, apparently from North Africa, have been sailing to and fro between Istanbul and Odessa on a Danish passenger ferry for the last seven weeks, locked in four cabins with no country willing to take them. According to the...
Crimean Tatar leader Chiygoz jailed by Russian court
Akhtem Chiygoz is given eight years for stirring up protest against Russia’s takeover of Crimea. …read more Source:...
Catalonia independence: Can anything end the stand-off?
Credits Pau Barrena/AFP/Getty Images Alt Text An apartment block bedecked with Catalan flags and pro-independence banners in Barcelona Regional government says it is under ‘state of siege’ as Spanish PM vows to block referendum In Depth Friday, September 8, 2017 – 3:42pm …read more Source: The...
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum review – grim but essential
An indignant history of the forced famine that killed at least four million“Holodomor” is a less well-known word than “Holocaust”, but Anne Applebaum’s indignant history of the famine that Stalin and his followers deliberately inflicted on Ukraine in 1932-33 leaves little doubt that it should be remembered alongside Hitler’s slaughter...
Nato accuses Russia of blocking observation of massive war game
Kremlin ‘failing in its obligations’ by saying only three experts can attend as 100,000 troops mobilise on EU’s eastern borderRussia has been accused by the head of Nato of blocking the alliance from properly observing next week’s Zapad military exercises, when about 100,000 Russian troops are expected to mobilise on the...
‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video
In Ukraine, the far-right Azov militia is fighting on the frontline – and running a summer camp for children. The Guardian visited the camp and followed 16-year-old Anton through his experiences. Is Azov really a modern Hitler Youth organisation, or is it trying to prepare young Ukrainians for the tough reality that awaits them? …...
Card gangs
Why modern cyber-crime forums were inspired by a site started by Ukrainian credit card thieves. …read more Source:...
