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Russian opposition leader Nemtsov shot dead in Moscow
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s involvement in the war in Ukraine, was shot dead steps from the Kremlin in central Moscow late on Friday. …read more Source:...
Leading Putin critic gunned down outside Kremlin
Boris Nemtsov, former deputy prime minister, gunned down near Kremlin before taking part in march against Russian war in Ukraine …read more Source: The...
Russian politician Nemtsov shot dead
A leading Russian opposition politician, former deputy PM Boris Nemtsov, is shot dead in Moscow just before a march against the war in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
VIDEO: The men fighting with bullets from 1943
Paul Wood and cameraman Moose Campbell report from the frontline near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Ukraine crisis: Poroshenko sees lasting ‘threat from the east’
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has said a “military threat from the east” would remain even if a peace deal holds between government forces and pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source: The...
Georgia, Ukraine and the spirit of Helsinki | Letters
Your editorial (26 February) states that “the Kremlin’s war over Georgia’s separatist region of South Ossetia” used “defence of Russian minorities as a pretext to negate the sovereignty and the integrity of an independent state”.Not so. The Russian military came to the help of South Ossetia, a small and otherwise defenceless nation...
Spain arrests eight nationals for fighting with pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine
‘Their activities compromise Spain’s peace or independence’Operation said to be first in Europe against foreign fighters in UkrainePolice have arrested eight Spanish men who returned from fighting alongside pro-Russia forces in eastern Ukraine, in what they said was the first operation of its kind in Europe.Officers detained the...
Ukraine crisis: Top Chinese diplomat backs Putin, says West should ‘abandon zero-sum mentality’
China has voiced its support for Russia over its handling of the Ukraine crisis, with prominent diplomat Qu Xing calling on the West to “abandon its zero-sum mentality”. …read more Source: The...
Deaths in Ukraine Shake Fragile Ceasefire
A withdrawal of heavy weaponry from Ukraine’s front line come as Russia threatens to cut off the gas supply by Tuesday. …read more Source: Sky...
Ukraine crisis: Mariupol asks, are we next?
Anxious Mariupol fearful of pro-Russian rebel attack …read more Source:...
