Section: The United Kingdom
Ukraine lawmaker seizes PM Yatseniuk in rowdy parliament scenes
KIEV (Reuters) – Fighting broke out in parliament among members of Ukraine’s ruling coalition on Friday after a member of President Petro Poroshenko’s bloc physically picked up Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk and pulled him from the podium. …read more Source:...
WATCH: Ukrainian Prime Minister is pulled off podium by his CROTCH as he refuses to resign
DAVID Cameron be warned… this is how leading politicians are dealt with in one European country. …read more Source:...
Making Joe Biden mad as hell
JOSEPH BIDEN, America’s folksy vice-president, is not known as an enforcer—except in Ukraine, where he has become the spearhead of American policy. This week Mr Biden made his fourth visit to Kiev since Ukraine’s Maidan revolution and delivered a fiery speech in parliament, imploring the country’s leaders to eradicate “the...
Russia can’t mend ties with U.S. while it backs sanctions: Lavrov
ROME (Reuters) – Russia wants to mend ties with the United States but cannot do so while Barack Obama’s administration backs economic sanctions against Moscow for its role in the conflict in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted on Thursday as saying. …read more Source:...
Ukraine says breaks up armed insurgent group in Kiev, two killed
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s security service said on Thursday it had broken up an armed insurgent group that operated out of Kiev and other major Ukrainian cities and that two people had been killed during the operation. …read more Source:...
Twelve things you need to know about Brexit
© illustrations by Tom Saffill The referendum on whether the UK will leave the European Union is likely to turn, in the end, on whether its interest in free trade with the continent will outweigh public hostility to unimpeded immigration from there. It may be a close call. Britain’s political elite has long prided itself on its embrace of...
The big ideas of 2016: growth of the Anglosphere/decline of the Brics
Read the rest of Prospect‘s big ideas of 2016 here. Prepare for a return of the old economic order. In the coming year, growth in Britain and the United States will be steady, unemployment will decline, interest rates will rise and there may even be a pinch of inflation. And while the “Anglo-Saxon” model delivers this welcome result, the...
Russia threatens to sue Ukraine
Legal battle over repayment of $3bn in debt …read more Source: Financial...
Russia wants fair rules on sovereign debt
Moscow has no desire to see IMF stop Ukraine’s funding but it has concerns, writes Anton Siluanov …read more Source: Financial...
