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Fighting flares up in eastern Ukraine
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Ukraine teeters a few steps from chaos
Ukraine teeters just a few steps from chaos and instability …read more Source:...
Ukraine government puts on united front amid political crisis
KIEV (Reuters) – Three Ukrainian cabinet members who had previously tendered their resignations will now remain in their posts, the government announced on Thursday, a show of unity a day after the abrupt exit of a key minister. …read more Source:...
Demonising Russia won’t give us security | Letters
We note with alarm that public discourse about Russia is coloured by militaristic and dangerous terms which may talk us into war (We’r*e back to great-power conflict, says US defence secretary, 3 February). The country’s portrayal as an aggressive power increases its perception of threat, accelerating a military and ideological...
Economic minister’s resignation plunges Ukraine into new crisis
Aivaras Abromavičius and his entire team quit complaining of ingrained corruption, a major blow to president and governmentUkraine has been thrust into a new political crisis after the economic minister and his team tendered their resignations complaining of ingrained corruption, which has replaced the simmering separatist conflict as the...
Sex, lies and psychological scars: inside Ukraine’s human trafficking crisis | Maxim Tucker
Desperate to find work, they leave home on the promise of a job only to be ushered into a life of forced labour and abuse. Two Ukrainian women reveal the trauma of trafficking and how a secret hospital is helping them rebuild their livesThe hospital where Dr Olga Milinchuk works has no sign outside and no waiting rooms. The address is a closely...
No end to the Final Solution
David Cesarani, Research Professor of History at Royal Holloway University of London, died at the age of 58 on 25 October 2015. The book now appears without its author, a kind of huge mausoleum for an astonishing enterprise. Cesarani wants to change our view of the Holocaust and to close the yawning gap between popular understanding of this...
The BBC’s “Inside the War Room” should never have been made
A solder in a dramatised scene from World War Three: Inside the War Room ©BBC, Gabriel Range : after Ukraine, are the Baltics in Putin’s sights? With the angry crowd wielding Russian flags, it looks just like a scene from Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region. Men in balaclavas storm a local government building and remove the flags from...
Kiev minister quits over ‘corruption’
Ukraine’s government was on the brink of collapse last night after the resignation of a key minister who alleged that… …read more Source: The...
Strauss-Kahn hired by Ukraine tycoon
Former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is joining the board of a bank owned by one of Ukraine’s richest men. …read more Source:...
