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Ukraine conflict ‘hurts its economy’
The International Monetary Fund says Ukraine’s economy is likely to shrink by a worse-than-expected 9% in 2015, as the continuing conflict takes its toll. …read more Source:...
Ukraine prisoners stranded in legal limbo on the frontline of a war
17,000 inmates were serving sentences in the east before the conflict began. Many remain in jail, with no one to review their cases or authorise their release. Anton Naumlyuk travelled from Artyomovsk to Mariupol to speak to them“When [former president Viktor] Yanukovich was in power, they rammed the prisons to bursting point,” said an inmate at...
Putin’s blacklist: If Russia wants to punish the West for imposing sanctions by banning people, it can do so – but this will not sway us
The release of a list of 89 European figures that the Kremlin will no longer allow into Russia has drawn an angry response from EU leaders, while confirming Russia’s utter lack of interest in winding down the confrontation with the West over Ukraine. No surprise there. …read more Source: The...
Kremlin blacklist of EU politicians is ‘tit-for-tat reaction’ to Western sanctions, says Lib Dem source after Nick Clegg banned
Britain has joined the rest of Europe in expressing outrage at the Kremlin’s decision to ban 89 EU politicians, military leaders and critics from entering Russia in what was seen as a tit-for tat-response to Western sanctions against Moscow over its intervention in the Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine taunts Kremlin with job for hated Georgian rival
President Poroshenko of Ukraine has taunted his Russian counterpart by appointing the former Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili, an enemy of… …read more Source: The...
President Putin’s travel-ban list is the latest mis-step in a clumsy diplomatic dance with Europe | Mary Dejevsky
Relations have deteriorated so much that we don’t know if the bar on Nick Clegg and others visiting Russia is a sham diplomatic storm or a real oneConsigned to the back benches, party leader and deputy prime minister no more, Nick Clegg finds himself suddenly back in the spotlight … because he has been banned from Russia. Tragi-comic,...
Ukraine names ex-Georgian president Saakashvili as Odessa governor
President Poroshenko’s surprise appointment of ‘great friend of Ukraine’ to key post in Black Sea region greeted with derision in MoscowPetro Poroshenko, the president of Ukraine, has appointed former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili to be governor of Ukraine’s southern Odessa region, in a surprise move that is certain to...
War in the east ravages Ukraine’s economy
Idle factories lead to decline in output …read more Source: Financial...
Ukraine names ex-Georgia leader governor
Appointment is seen as part of efforts to speed up regional reforms in the war-torn country …read more Source: Financial...
Ukraine names Georgia’s Saakashvili as governor of Black Sea hotspot
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko has appointed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to be governor of Ukraine’s southern Odessa region, in a surprise move that is certain to raise hackles in Moscow. …read more Source:...
