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Germany pledges to raise defence spending
Response to Ukraine crisis will include strengthening tank forces …read more Source: Financial...
Boris Nemtsov interviewed hours before death: ‘Putin is a pathological liar’
Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov gives his last televised interview just hours before being shot dead near the Kremlin. In the interview, on radio station Ekho Moskvy in Moscow, Nemtsov calls for political reform in Russia and labels president Vladimir Putin a ‘pathological liar’, who he blames for starting an ‘insane,...
Moscow march: thousands gather in memory of Boris Nemtsov – video
Thousands take to the streets in Moscow in memory of Boris Nemtsov, the former deputy prime minister and vehement critic of Vladimir Putin’s rule. Protesters held signs bearing Nemtsov’s face and brought flowers to the site where he was shot dead on Saturday by an unidentified attacker. On the day he died, Nemtsov had called for a...
Boris Nemtsov
Russian politician who fell out of favour with the Kremlin and opposed expansionist policiesBoris Nemtsov, who has died aged 55 after being shot, was a leading pro-market reformer in the first, tumultuous post-Soviet decade and a popular politician and regional governor who at one point appeared to have been earmarked by President Boris Yeltsin...
Ukraine military says rebels using truce to regroup
KIEV(Reuters) – Ukraine’s military said on Sunday a ceasefire had been fully observed in eastern separatist territories overnight, but warned that pro-Russian rebels were using the truce to regroup for new attacks on government positions. …read more Source:...
Shocking pictures show scale of destruction inside Ukraine’s Debaltseve
Debaltseve was taken by a pro-Russian rebel assault ending on February 18, and these haunting images from inside the city show the massive destruction wrought by the war with government forces. …read more Source: Daily...
Week in pictures: 22 – 28 February
From stars celebrating this year’s Oscars and Brits to the starving sea lions on California’s shores Gallery Sunday, March 1, 2015 – 6:30am OscarsFelicity JonesMadonnaBrit AwardsCara DelevingneUkraineKate MossSam SmithMalcolm Rifkind …read more Source: The...
Estonia votes amid Russia fears
Estonians are choosing a new government, in an election dominated by concerns over Russian action in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Ukrainian photographer killed in fighting
Sergiy Nikolayev from Ukrainian daily Segodnya died in shelling in east of country as clashes continue despite truce Two people have been killed by shelling in east Ukraine as isolated clashes rattled a shaky truce with pro-Russian rebels and observers warned the country was at a “crossroads”.Photographer Sergiy Nikolayev from Ukrainian daily...
Was Boris Nemtsov killed because in Russia opposition activists are deemed traitors?
Vladimir Putin and media are violently hostile to challenges to the state, an intolerance that has helped end the life of another opposition figureBoris Nemtsov’s dead body was still lying on the icy asphalt when Vladimir Putin’s spokesman announced that the president believed the murder to be a “provocation”.“With all due respect to...
