Section: The United Kingdom
A Crimean league? Football caught up in annexation struggle
Uefa boss attempts to distance himself from politics as football body considers the future for the clubs of Crimea. EurasiaNet.org reportFootball has become the latest sticking point in the annexation of Crimea, as Russia pressures Uefa to recognise it as an entity separate from Ukraine. Russian troops invaded Crimea year ago in response to the...
EU links Russia sanctions to truce
EU leaders agree to keep sanctions on Russia over its role in the Ukraine conflict until the end of 2015 at the earliest, tying them to a truce deal. …read more Source:...
Missile remains ‘found at MH17 site’
Dutch broadcaster RTL says it has new evidence the Malaysia Airlines plane shot down over Ukraine last July was hit by a Russian-made Buk missile. …read more Source:...
Russia, China, others snub U.N. meeting on Crimea human rights
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia, China, Venezuela and Angola snubbed an informal United Nations Security Council meeting on Thursday on human rights in Crimea a year after Russia seized the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine, diplomats said. …read more Source:...
EU ties lifting Russia sanctions to full Ukraine peace accord
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to link lifting economic sanctions on Russia to the full implementation of a Ukraine ceasefire agreement, European Council President Donald Tusk announced. …read more Source:...
U.S. to move ahead with training Ukrainian guardsmen: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About 290 U.S. Army paratroopers will travel to western Ukraine next month to train three battalions of Ukrainian national guard troops, the Pentagon said on Thursday, moving ahead with a long-planned mission that was delayed due to a peace deal. …read more Source:...
Ukraine premier warns Putin trying to split EU
Yatseniuk foresees ‘disaster for free world’ …read more Source: Financial...
Greece PM plea as EU summit starts
The Greek debt crisis dominates as EU leaders gather for a summit in Brussels, which is also due to focus on relations with Russia over Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Putin signs deal calling for almost complete integration of South Ossetia into Russia on anniversary of Crimea annexation
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a treaty with the leader of South Ossetia calling for almost complete integration on the one year anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine stuck on an IMF dripfeed a year after Crimea seizure
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In eight International Monetary Fund programs since independence in 1991, Ukraine has completed just one successfully. A year on from Russia’s seizure of Crimea, it looks unlikely it will live up to the terms of its latest deal with the IMF also. …read more Source:...
