Section: The United Kingdom
Ukraine flaunts the rebels who came back home
Flanked by armed soldiers, the defector crossed the buffer zone into sovereign Ukraine. Yuriy Rud, 40, showed little trace of… …read more Source: The...
Ukraine leaves sabotaged power lines to Russian-annexed Crimea in mud
CHAPLINKA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Five days after saboteurs blew up power lines in southern Ukraine plunging Russian-annexed Crimea into an energy crisis, all four damaged pylons are out of action and engineers say they need a political decision to restore supplies. …read more Source:...
Beyond the anti-Corbyn hysteria UK newspapers run measured editorials
National press makes much of Labour’s internal war but the leading articles point to the defects in the prime minister’s argument to bomb Isis in Syria“Labour at war” about whether to go to war, said Friday’s front page headlines in the Times, Daily Telegraph and the Independent. “Labour in Syria turmoil as PM makes the case for...
Ukraine says Russia has started to restrict its coal supplies
KIEV (Reuters) – Russia has started to restrict coal supplies to Ukraine, Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn told parliament on Friday, saying Kiev had 1 month of its own supplies left, enough to ensure the stable functioning of the power system for up to 50 days. …read more Source:...
Crimeans describe life during blackout after attacks from Ukraine
Hospitals are struggling, businesses have closed and public transport has ground to a halt. RFE/RL talks to locals facing prolonged power cuts Crimean residents are learning to live with thawing fridges, pitch-dark highways and shuttered schools a week after Ukrainian miliants began attacking the power lines feeding the region.As Russian...
Ten EU nations say Nord Stream gas extension not in EU interests
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Russia’s plans to extend its gas link to Germany run counter to EU interests and risk further destabilizing Ukraine, 10 European governments said in a letter to the European Commission that called for a summit-level debate on the issue. …read more Source:...
Power blackouts test loyalty to Kremlin in Russian-annexed Crimea
SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (Reuters) – Power blackouts in Crimea orchestrated by anti-Russian saboteurs are stirring discontent a year and a half after Moscow seized the peninsula from Ukraine, threatening to chip away at the pro-Kremlin euphoria many Crimeans felt after annexation. …read more Source:...
Khodorkovsky says Russia’s Putin and West want rapprochement
LONDON (Reuters) – Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin wants to edge Russia towards a rapprochement with the West after a stand-off over Ukraine brought relations between the two sides to their lowest since the Cold War, former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said on Thursday. …read more Source:...
Russia and the west are locked into a new violent normal
A woman, left, holds a poster reading “Turkey to account!” as others wave Russian and Syrian national flags during a picket at the Turkish Embassy in Moscow, Russia © AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin Watching the shaking, blazing footage of a Russian jet downed by the Turkish air force one question was running through millions of people’s minds—is...
Russia in Syria: whose side is Vladimir Putin on?
Several theories have been put forward about Putin’s motivation for intervening in the Syrian war In Depth Thursday, November 26, 2015 – 4:11pm See related Russia-Turkey tensions high amid disputed claims over downed jet …read more Source: The...
