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Crimea without power after ‘lines cut’
Crimea is plunged into darkness after pylons carrying power lines which supply electricity from Ukraine were reportedly blown up on Saturday night. …read more Source:...
Western leaders agreed to extend Russia sanctions by six months: diplomat
(Reuters) – Western leaders who met on the margins of last week’s Group of 20 summit in Turkey agreed to extend sanctions against Russia for its actions in Ukraine by six months until July of next year, a senior European diplomat told Reuters. …read more Source:...
Angela Merkel: ten years in power, but still an enigma
Credits Jochen Zick – Pool / Getty Images Alt Text Angela Merkel Forbes’s most powerful woman has put Germany back on the world stage Profile Friday, November 20, 2015 – 1:29pm …read more Source: The...
Exclusive: EU’s Juncker dangles trade ties with Russia-led bloc to Putin
VILNIUS (Reuters) – European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker wrote to Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, suggesting closer trade ties between the 28-nation EU and a Russian-led economic bloc, linking them to progress on implementing a ceasefire in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Is Ukraine finally getting to grips with its corruption problem?
Two years of war, illness and economic pain has followed Ukraine’s revolution, and reforms are still slow to arrive. If you want to know why Ukraine had a revolution, consider this: it has one of the world’s fastest-growing HIV epidemics, and yet officials deliberately overcharged their own health ministry for anti-retrovirals to make...
The Tribe director to film inside Chernobyl exclusion zone
Luxembourg will tell the story of primitive society in a permanent nuclear winter – and will be the second time Miroslav Slaboshpitsky has shot at the locationMiroslav Slaboshpitsky, the Ukrainian director of the award-winning drama The Tribe, is to shoot his follow-up feature inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone, around the site of the...
Russia did not ask for sanctions relief with new Ukraine debt deal: PM
MANILA (Reuters) – Russia did not ask the West to lift sanctions against Moscow when it offered Ukraine a new debt restructuring deal, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. …read more Source:...
US Embassy Outs Russian Paper Over ‘Fake’ Letter
The embassy in Moscow corrects a US Department of State “letter” which appeared in an Izvestia article about Ukraine protests. …read more Source: Sky...
Old-school-tie brigade in knots over Russia | Letters
Your report on Vladimir Putin’s progress from pariah to powerbroker (Putin has been taken off the menu and returned to the top table, 18 November) reminds me of previous instances where reactionary toffs let their prejudices over Russia cloud their judgment. For example, the old-school-tie brigade viewed the prospect of an alliance with the...
Paris attacks, Hollande visit may spur Kremlin push to end isolation
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Francois Hollande’s decision to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week, the first bilateral visit by an EU leader in six months, may galvanize Kremlin efforts to end its isolation over the Ukraine crisis, but is unlikely to yield a quick fix. …read more Source:...
