Section: The United Kingdom
Russian embassy in Kiev protests over damage to its cars: RIA
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) – Russia’s embassy in Kiev sent a note of protest to Ukraine’s foreign ministry on Sunday about attacks on the embassy’s cars, the RIA news agency quoted embassy spokesman Oleg Grishin as saying. …read more Source:...
Empire’s martyrs: the British obsession with heroic failure
The British take a perverse pleasure in glorious defeat, as Heroic Failure and the British by Stephanie Barczewski examines. In 1799 the Scottish explorer Mungo Park published Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, which described his voyage across Senegal and along the River Niger in Mali, in search of the city of Timbuktu. In 1805 he...
U.S. urges Russia to pressure Ukraine rebels over attacks
PARIS (Reuters) – Russia needs to use its influence on separatists in eastern Ukraine to halt attacks by pro-Russian rebels, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Reuters on Friday. …read more Source:...
Ukrainian pilot to tell Russian court: Free me or watch me starve to death
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Ukrainian woman pilot on trial in Russia over the killing of two Russian journalists plans to tell a court to release her within 10 days of pronouncing its verdict or she will starve herself to death. …read more Source:...
What the untold Soviet history of “Red Africa” reveals about the racism of modern Russia
Artists are attempting to resurrect a piece of cultural history that has been buried, but also highlight the difficulty experienced by black people in Putin’s Russia. Modern Russia has a reputation for being racist. And for good reason. The number of racist acts committed by Russian football fans doubled last season, according to...
VIDEO: Coral reef seized on Polish border
Polish customs officials have seized 170kg of live coral at its border with Ukraine …read more Source:...
Ukrainian foreign minister says no breakthrough in Paris talks
(Reuters) – Ukraine’s foreign minister said on Thursday there had been no breakthrough in Paris talks aimed at getting a fragile peace deal back on track, repeating that until security was restored there could be no election in the rebel-held Donbass region. …read more Source:...
France calls for prisoner exchange in Ukraine conflict
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After Ukraine, Kazakhstan wary of ethnic Russians broaching autonomy
KOSTANAY, Kazakhstan (Reuters) – In the city of Kostanay in northern Kazakhstan, the ribbon of St George, a black-and-orange symbol of resurgent Russian patriotism that was adopted by separatists in Ukraine, hangs from every second car’s rear-view mirror. …read more Source:...
Russia subjecting Ukrainian pilot to show trial, lawyer says
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A defense lawyer for Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, on trial in Russia on charges of complicity in the killing of two Russian journalists, said on Thursday her case was trumped up and she was being subjected to a show trial. …read more Source:...
