Section: The United Kingdom
How Moldova escaped the effects of a giant banking crisis
At least the wine is safe MOLDOVA is a country of ignominious records. It is by far Europe’s poorest place. Among countries that bother to count foreign tourists, only Tuvalu welcomes fewer. To these dubious achievements, this little Romanian-speaking former Soviet republic added a new one in 2014. A leaked report revealed that up to $1bn,...
Turkey’s snuggling up to Russia is likely to hurt it
AT ISTANBUL’S naval museum, around the corner from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s residence, reminders of one of Europe’s biggest geopolitical rivalries are everywhere. A bust commemorates Hasan Pasha of Algiers, a commander in a battle in which the Russian fleet burned the Ottoman one to a crisp. The remnants of the...
US rows back on Russian detente, citing Ukraine
Washington unwilling to re-engage while Moscow violates Minsk accord, says Tillerson …read more Source: Financial...
How Britain can still count after it quits
Trump is indifferent to European strength; May is not, and cannot afford to be ©De Keerle/Sipa/Rex/Shutterstock In last year’s interview with the Atlantic, Barack Obama warned that a country that would “resort to nationalism as an organising principle” and that “never takes on the responsibilities of a country its size in maintaining the...
What’s ours is OURS: Russia SLAPS DOWN Trump and claims ‘Crimea is going nowhere’
RUSSIA has brushed-off Donald Trump’s attempt to “get tough” with the former Soviet State, ignoring his warnings to “return” Crimea. …read more Source:...
Bolsheviks capture Kiev – archive, 1918
16 February 1918: Little by little the counter-revolutionaries were forced back by artillery and by bayonetsA report transmitted through the wireless stations of the Russian Government on February 11, announcing the capture of Kieff by Bolshevik troops, contains the following:–Events at Kieff took the following course. At the time when our troops...
Russian foreign ministry creates Chicken Crimea fitting Kremlin’s foreign policy
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Ukraine says Russian state hackers using new viruses for attacks
KIEV (Reuters) – State-sponsored Russian hackers are using a new type of virus designed to attack critical Ukrainian infrastructure such as the power grid and financial system, a senior Ukrainian state security official said on Wednesday. …read more Source:...
Eurovision 2017: Ukraine warned as organising team quits
Organisation that founded song contest tells Ukraine’s public broadcaster to ‘stick to the timeline’ following mass resignationLast year, it stole the show with a haunting, politically-charged ballad about Stalin’s deportation of Crimean Tartars. Now Ukraine risks “nul points” for its hosting of the Eurovision song contest after...
‘I checked to see if I had arms and legs’
British photographer Christopher Nunn is raising money for a friend who was killed in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
