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Ukrainian serviceman killed despite ceasefire: Ukraine military
KIEV (Reuters) – One Ukrainian serviceman has been killed and three wounded as a result of fighting in separatist eastern territories in the past 24 hours, despite a ceasefire deal, Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said on Sunday. …read more Source:...
No sign Putin has changed strategy on Ukraine: UK foreign minister
LONDON (Reuters) – British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Sunday he had detected no change in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strategic intentions towards Ukraine, despite a reduction in violence following the Minsk ceasefire agreement. …read more Source:...
Week in pictures: 1 – 7 March
From an avalanche in Afghanistan to Harrison Ford’s plane crash and a pampered pooch at Crufts Gallery Sunday, March 8, 2015 – 6:30am Afghanistan Harrison Ford crufts Ukraine Chelsea Tottenham Jose Mourinho …read more Source: The...
Two More Arrests Over Kremlin Critic’s Murder
Four men are now being held after Boris Nemtsov was shot four times in the back while walking with his Ukrainian girlfriend. …read more Source: Sky...
‘Slowly, change is coming’: life for women in the post-Soviet world
From bride kidnapping to the gender pay gap, women in the 15 countries that emerged from the ashes of the USSR describe the challenges they face today‘We want a voice’: women fight for their rights in the former USSRIn Russia, the word “feminism” is often spoken with negative connotations these days.The generation that is now 15 already...
‘We want a voice’: women fight for their rights in the former USSR
Campaigners have their work cut out in the patriarchal societies that dominate the region, especially where the Kremlin’s family values agenda holds sway‘Slowly, change is coming’: life for women in the post-Soviet worldWomen had stood shoulder to shoulder with men in the Russian Revolution of 1917, according to its leader Vladimir...
Ukrainian military says heavy weapons pullback is complete
Rebel official says separatists have also completed pullback from buffer zone ahead of deadline under peace agreementUkraine’s military says it is completing its pullback of heavy weapons under the terms of a peace agreement aimed at ending the war with separatist rebels that has killed more than 6,000 people.An internationally brokered...
Germany downplays report of rift with NATO over Breedlove comments
BERLIN/RIGA (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier downplayed a magazine report on Saturday of tensions with NATO over hawkish comments about Ukraine made by the Western alliance’s supreme allied commander. …read more Source:...
The 20 photographs of the week
Nigerians fleeing from Boko Haram, Harrison Ford’s plane crash, devastation in Ukraine, fashion week in Paris, Los Angeles skid row shooting – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week … …read more Source: The...
Ukraine rebels ‘pull heavy weapons’
The pro-Russia separatist leader in Donetsk in east Ukraine says rebels have fully removed heavy arms from the front line as agreed in the ceasefire. …read more Source:...
