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Putin, Merkel discuss Ukraine, agree on future contacts in Normandy format: Kremlin
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the Ukraine crisis during a phone call on Thursday and agreed on the schedule of future contacts in the Normandy format, the Kremlin said in a statement. …read more Source:...
How will the MH17 report impact Russia’s relations with the West?
There is now little doubt that Moscow is responsible for handing over the missile to its separatist proxies in eastern Ukraine. I was stood among the tents and makeshift huts in Independence Square on 17 July 2014 in central Kiev when I heard that flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kula Lumpur had been shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298...
Ukraine reform push would pave way to support from new U.S. president: Pritzker
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine should ramp up economic and anti-corruption reforms to pave the way for continued support from whoever wins the U.S. presidential election, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker said on a visit to Kiev on Thursday. …read more Source:...
Craig Oliver, Cameron’s attack dog, finally bites
A new book reveals the spiteful after life of Downing Street’s unlikely spin doctor. It must be hard being a spin doctor: always in the shadows but always on-message. The murky control that the role requires might explain why David Cameron’s former director of communications Craig Oliver has rushed out his political memoirs so soon...
How Putin’s Syria gamble has paid off | Oleg Kashin
One of Russia’s most prominent journalists argues the protracted conflict has been a gift to the president whose expansionism in Ukraine had left his country weakened• Read a version of this article in RussianIn a famous poem by the writer Yevgeny Yevtushenko, an ant crawling on the face of a Russian soldier killed in Afghanistan asks the...
Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Thursday 29 Sep 2016
Obama warns 9/11 bill is a ‘mistake’ US president Barack Obama has warned that the decision by Congress to override his veto of a bill which will allow Americans to sue nations for acts of terrorism – opening the gates to litigation against Saudi Arabia over the 9/11 attrocity – is a mistake. Obama said the bill would set...
MH17 ‘killers’ will be brought to justice, says Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull
Turnbull says Australia will continue to pursue Russia after two-year investigation found Malaysian Airlines plane was downed by missile from RussiaAustralia’s prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has vowed “the killers” who downed Malaysia Airlines MH17 with a Russian missile in 2014 will be brought to justice.A two-year investigation found...
MH17: Buk missile system from Russia, says Dutch-led investigation – video
A member of the Dutch-led joint investigation team (JIT) presents the body’s findings after an inquiry into the downing of flight MH17 on 17 July 2014, killing all 298 people on board. Speaking on Wednesday from the Dutch city Nieuwegein, Wilbert Paulissen explained that by using witnesses and phone data it had been possible to conclusively...
MH17 hit by missile ‘brought from Russia’
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was definitely shot down from the ground – by a Buk missile moved into Ukraine from Russia, an international investigation has concluded. …read more Source: Sky...
British man appears in court charged with terrorism offences linked to civil war in Ukraine
Benjamin Stimson, 41, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, is thought to be the first Briton charged under terror legislation for alleged involvement in the civil war in the eastern European country. …read more Source: Daily...
