Section: The United Kingdom
Ukraine conflict: Russia accused of terrorism and discrimination at ICJ
The legal action is being brought under UN anti-terrorism and anti-discrimination conventions. …read more Source:...
Ukraine takes Russia to UN court over rebel funding, Crimea
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Faith, flag and football: how the Polish game developed a white supremacist fringe
Among the colours and badges of Polish football clubs is a banner declaring, “Death to the enemies of the fatherland”. Poland’s Catholic churches rarely want for colour, but even the gaudiest frescoes and stained-glass windows struggled to compete with the sea of striped hats and scarves on show at the 14th-century Jasna Góra Monastery, as...
Ukraine and Russia face off in U.N. court over separatist conflict
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Tensions between Ukraine and Russia will play out at the U.N.’s highest court on Monday when judges begin hearing Kiev’s request to order Moscow to halt support for pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source:...
Czar bust in Crimea reportedly appears to shed tears
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Pirates in Nigeria release Russian, Ukrainian sailors: agencies
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Nigerian pirates have released seven Russian and one Ukrainian sailors after they were captured last month on the cargo ship the BBC Caribbean, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday, citing a human rights activist in Crimea. …read more Source:...
British foreign minister to visit Russia to discuss differences
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s foreign minister Boris Johnson will go to Moscow in the coming weeks to discuss the differences between the two countries over Syria and Ukraine, the Foreign Office said on Saturday, in the first such visit for five years. …read more Source:...
“calm rhythm” – a poem by Myroslav Laiuk
Translated from the Ukrainian by Alan Zhukovski moss expands and stuffs with itself the lower layers of the air silver engagement ring grows black and the subterranean brooks in the caves below run full of hoary trout one small step away from voice a soldier of an unknown army fell here to the bottom of the fog horses of an unknown coat color ran...
EU extends sanctions against 15 Ukrainians over corruption
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EU to give Ukraine visa free travel within MONTHS despite referendum REJECTING it
UKRAINE is now just a few steps away from being granted visa free travel throughout the European Union – despite huge opposition to the move. …read more Source:...
