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Renewed Russia fears bolster Komorowski in Poland’s presidential race
WARSAW (Reuters) – Buoyed by his strong defense background and Poles’ renewed fear of Russia stoked by the Ukraine crisis, Bronislaw Komorowski looks likely to win the first round of Poland’s presidential election on Sunday. …read more Source:...
A road trip into the Communist past – in pictures
Inspired by vintage postcards, photographer Marco Citron’s series of ‘boring landscapes’ from the former Soviet Union reveals the beautiful in the banal, says The Calvert Journal … …read more Source: The...
France considering scuttling Mistral aircraft carriers rather than sell them to Russia
The French government is supposed to have received a payment of €1.12 billion from Moscow for the vessels, but the transfer has been postponed amid tensions over the conflict in Ukraine. …read more Source: Daily...
Russian report blames Kiev for downing of MH17 airliner: newspaper
MOSCOW (Reuters) – An independent Russian newspaper on Wednesday published what it said was a report by Russian military engineers suggesting a Malaysian airliner shot down in Ukraine was hit by a Russian-made surface-to-air missile fired by Ukrainian forces. …read more Source:...
WATCH: Prince Harry inspires bizarre propaganda video for Ukrainian troops on front line
PRINCE HARRY appears to have inspired a bizarre propaganda video made by Ukrainian soldiers fighting on the front line against Russia. …read more Source:...
Russia’s Putin, Germany’s Merkel to discuss Ukraine on May 10
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will discuss the crisis in Ukraine at talks in Moscow on Sunday, a Kremlin aide told reporters on Wednesday. …read more Source:...
15 years of Vladimir Putin: 15 ways he has changed Russia and the world
His critics say he has led his country into an autocratic cul-de-sac, but his fans point to the stability he brought after Yeltsin and the way he stood up to the westDays before he was elected to the Russian presidency in 2000, Vladimir Putin told the BBC that Russia was “part of European culture” and that he “would not rule out” the possibility...
Nuclear waste stored in the open air near Ukrainian front line
‘Shocking’ store of over 3,000 spent fuel rods stand in containers in an open-air yard just 200km from Ukraine’s warzone and highlight wider tensions over energy relations with Russia More than 3,000 spent nuclear fuel rods are being stored in an open-air yard just over 100 miles from Ukraine’s front line of fighting, in...
Five Ukrainian serviceman killed in past 24 hours in east: Ukraine military
KIEV (Reuters) – Five Ukrainian servicemen were killed and twelve wounded in separatist eastern territories over the past 24 hours despite a ceasefire deal, Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said on Wednesday. …read more Source:...
EU’s top diplomat says destabilized Russia in nobody’s interest
BEIJING (Reuters) – A destabilized and isolated Russia is in nobody’s interests, and sanctions are only being kept in place because a truce agreement in the conflict in Ukraine is not being fully implemented, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said on Wednesday. …read more Source:...
