Section: The United Kingdom
EU’s Juncker postpones Kiev visit due to kidney stones
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has postponed plans to visit Kiev on Monday because he needs to receive treatment for kidney stones. …read more Source:...
The 20 photographs of the week
The Germanwings plane crash, the liberation of Damasak from Boko Haram militants, the Cricket World Cup, the escalating conflict in Yemen – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week … …read more Source: The...
Ukraine arrests Turkish cargo ship over Crimea port call
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian authorities have arrested a Turkish-owned cargo ship and detained its captain over a visit it made to a port in Crimea after Russian annexed the peninsula from Ukraine last year. …read more Source:...
Ukraine top official to be released
A senior Ukrainian official arrested two days ago over corruption allegations is to be released due to a lack of evidence. …read more Source:...
Russian Orthodox Church suspends priest who blessed Ukraine-bound fighters
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian Orthodox Church has suspended a priest who publicly blessed a group of fighters heading to eastern Ukraine, encouraging them to battle government troops he called “fascist scum”. …read more Source:...
Poland to charge two Russian officials over Kaczynski plane crash
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland said on Friday it would bring charges against two Russian air traffic controllers over a 2010 plane crash which killed then Polish president Lech Kaczynski, a move likely to damage bilateral relations already strained by the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source:...
Syria’s Assad says West wants to weaken Russia
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has accused the West of trying to weaken Russia by turning Ukraine into a puppet state, a tactic he said had also been used against his own country. …read more Source:...
How do you solve a problem like Ukraine?
Analysis: Kiev should stop banning Russian films and TV programmes and start talking to Russophone Ukrainians, says Nicolai PetroNot long ago, former Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko gave a wide ranging interview in which he offered the man who now sits in that seat some advice.President Petro Poroshenko must understand, the ex-leader said,...
From popular leader to enemy of the west: it is 15 years since Putin came to power
The Russian president has been in power in some capacity for 15 years. Is his political autumn finally looming? An unsettled diplomatic winter lies ahead of spring. Photo: Getty Spring came more quickly in the Caucasus. Those first warm days that year made the late winter cold of Moscow seem even more remote, yet the signs of the destructive...
President v oligarch
FOR the past year, Ukraine’s government has enlisted the help of the country’s powerful oligarchs in fighting its war against pro-Russian separatists. This week a new war opened up, pitting the government against one of the very oligarchs it had relied upon. On March 25th Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s president, forced Ihor...
