Section: The United Kingdom
Victory Day in Russia and former Soviet republics – in pictures
Nations of the former USSR commemorate the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany in the second world war. The Soviet Union is estimated to have lost 26 million people in the war, including 8 million soldiers. Victory Day is Russia’s most important secular holiday … …read more Source: The...
Trump and Russia: Who are the people in the spotlight?
Credits Savo Prelevic/AFP/Getty Images Alt Text Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin Investigations into alleged links between the US President and Moscow continue to dog the White House In Depth Tuesday, May 9, 2017 …read more Source: The...
Playing with fire
Eurovision is meant to foster unity but 2017 seems to be all about Ukraine’s conflict with Russia. …read more Source:...
Steven Seagal BANNED from Ukraine after Kiev marks him ‘threat to national security’
ACTION movie legend Steven Seagal has been barred from Ukraine and marked a “threat to national security” over his cosy friendship with Vladimir Putin. …read more Source:...
‘Dangerous’ Steven Seagal banned from Ukraine
Steven Seagal has been banned from entering Ukraine after being branded a national security threat. …read more Source: Sky...
Steven Seagal banned from Ukraine after being branded national security threat
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Ukraine bans Steven Seagal as threat to national security
Security service says it has forbidden Seagal entry into country for five years, after actor received Russian citizenshipUkraine has banned American action movie star Steven Seagal as a national security threat, making him the latest of several cultural figures to be blacklisted.The Ukrainian security service said it had forbidden Seagal entry to...
Political row between Russia and Ukraine threatens to overshadow Eurovision Song Contest
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Another Eurovision song contest, another diplomatic crisis
Crimea river ODDLY for a pop show that is meant to be apolitical, the Eurovision song contest causes a fission of fury nearly every year. In 2014 Conchita Wurst, a bearded drag queen from Austria, won the annual festival of kitsch, leading to calls in Russia and Belarus for Ms Wurst’s song not to be transmitted and accusations that the show...
Ukrainian anti-gay right stirs flap over Eurovision ‘diversity’ rainbow
KIEV (Reuters) – The transformation of a Soviet-era monument in Kiev into “the world’s largest man-made rainbow” was meant to trumpet Ukraine’s willingness to celebrate diversity as it hosts the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest. …read more Source:...
