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Why is Europe turning its back on Ukraine?
Amid growing justification for Russian aggression and a trend towards engaging with post-Soviet dictators, the EU is missing the fact that Moscow is a threat to Europe as whole, writes Belarusian opposition leader Andrei Sannikov Ukraines chances of survival are weak today and gloomy in the future. The reason for this is the position of the major...
Ukraine unlikely to receive IMF loan tranche this year – finance minister
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine is unlikely to receive a second tranche of a $17-billion loan program from the International Monetary Fund this year as expected, Finance Minister Oleksander Shlapak said on Tuesday, in the latest economic blow to the debt-ridden country. …read more Source:...
Russia backs separatist vote in Ukraine
Kiev accuses Moscow of violating shaky peace deal after foreign minister Sergei Lavrov says Russia will recognise Donbass pollsRussia has announced it will recognise separatist polls in Ukraine next weekend, fuelling tensions with the countrys newly elected pro-western leaders as they negotiate on forming a coalition government.The rebel...
Vladimir Putins Eurasian Economic Union gets ready to take on the world
Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus at heart of post-Soviet trading bloc that aspires to commerce but not communityUntil the last moment Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, held out for 7 October, to coincide with Vladimir Putins birthday. But in the end the parliament in Minsk ratified the treaty on Eurasian Economic Union on 9 October,...
Poland says to beef up military on its eastern border
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland said on Tuesday it is drawing up a long-term plan to shift some of its military strength towards its eastern border, closer to Ukraine and Russia, in response to Russia’s intervention in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Russia supports Ukraine rebel vote
Russia says it will recognise the results of controversial rebel elections in eastern Ukraine, planned for 2 November. …read more Source:...
Balancing act for Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko
The delicate task facing Ukraine’s president …read more Source:...
Ukraine begins coalition talks
Ukraine’s political parties have begun talks on how to form a coalition, after an election that saw a pro-West parliament installed …read more Source: The...
The Guardian view on Ukraines elections: farewell to the old politics | Editorial
The voters have made their democratic choices. Vladimir Putin and his followers must respect themThe Ukrainian parliamentary elections have confirmed the countrys pro-European orientation and drawn into government a wide range of representatives of the social forces that brought about the Maidan revolution earlier this year. Not much remains of...
Report alleges Crimea rights abuses
A Council of Europe report says serious human rights abuses have been committed in Crimea since Russia annexed the peninsula in March. …read more Source:...
