Section: The United Kingdom
Russia drill brings troops near Ukraine
Russia holds military exercises involving 8,500 troops, with dozens of ships and aircraft, in a southern region near rebel-held eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Swine flu spreading across eastern Europe and Middle East
3,000 people a day in Ukraine are being hospitalised with H1N1 virus as scientists investigate why flu strain is hitting those in younger age groups hardestSwine flu has killed 183 people in Ukraine this winter and is spreading rapidly across eastern Europe and the Middle East. At least 107 people have died in Russia after contracting the...
VIDEO: The couple trapped on Ukraine’s frontline
The elderly couple who will not leave the town of Peski on Ukraine’s frontline despite shelling damaging their house. …read more Source:...
Technocracy only hope for lasting reform
Ukraine ex-minister warns over ‘old forces’ undoing progress …read more Source: Financial...
Ukraine’s last chance to secure freedom
Abromavicius resignation lays bare the absence of fundamental reforms …read more Source: Financial...
Letter from Donetsk: ice cream, bustling bars and missiles in eastern Ukraine
In Donetsk, which has been under the control of Russian backed rebels since April 2014, the propaganda has a hermetic, relentless feel to it. Eighty-eight year-old Nadya Moroz stares through the taped-up window of her flat in Donetsk, blown in by persistent bombing. She wonders why she abandoned her peaceful village for a “better life” in Donetsk...
Dutch ‘no’ on Ukraine pact would force rethink, minister says
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch government would be obliged to reconsider its position on an EU pact establishing closer ties with Ukraine if it loses an upcoming referendum on the issue, the country’s foreign minister said, but he stopped short of saying a “no” vote would scupper the treaty. …read more Source:...
Ukraine needs new-look government, says outgoing economy minister
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine needs a new technocratic government led by the present finance minister to have any hope of pushing through long-promised reforms, the outgoing economy minister told Reuters on Friday, two days after his shock resignation. …read more Source:...
Russia simulated nuclear attack on Sweden, says Nato
Description Russian leader Vladimir Putin Military and intelligence units targeted in war game ‘attack’ that caught Swedes napping One-Minute Read Friday, February 5, 2016 – 1:12pm Russia targeted Sweden in a simulated nuclear attack during exercises in 2013, Nato has confirmed, …read more Source: The...
Q&A: Why the UN’s Julian Assange ruling is meaningless
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has no legal force in the UK. Why is Julian Assange even in the Ecuadorean embassy? In June 2012, the Wikileaks founder fled bail, walked into the embassy, and applied for political asylum to the Ecuadorean government. And he’s stayed there ever since. Assange was on bail because the UK was trying...
