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Sanctions against Russia hit Chechen leaders prize-winning racehorses
Thoroughbreds Zazou and Dashing Home unable to race and winnings frozen because Ramzan Kadyrov is target of sanctionsWestern sanctions against Russia have hit high-ranking officials, banks, oil companies, and now two prize-winning racehorses.The trainer of the celebrated thoroughbreds Zazou and Dashing Home cannot collect prize money won in races...
Russia and Ukraine talks unproductive
EU-brokered meeting between Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko ends in disappointment …read more Source: Financial...
Cameron puts pressure on Putin over Ukraine elections
David Cameron has challenged Vladimir Putin to denounce illegal elections planned by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. The prime minister… …read more Source: The...
Russias turbulent ties in Europe the Guardian briefing
Relations between Russia and some of its traditional European allies have soured over its role in the Ukraine crisis. As a result, Moscow is attempting to forge new alliances in the region with smaller eastern and central European states, many of which have important trade ties with their more powerful neighbour. Now many face a tricky balancing...
Milan summit offers Putin and Poroshenko time to talk
MILAN (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko are looking to patch up a faltering ceasefire in eastern Ukraine and resolve a dispute over natural gas supplies when they meet in Milan on Friday. …read more Source:...
Putin under pressure to commit to fragile peace plan for eastern Ukraine
Russian president meets Poroshenko and EU leaders as violence continues to spread across region despite ceasefireThe Russian president, Vladimir Putin, will come under intense pressure on Friday from EU leaders to commit fully to the fragile peace plan for eastern Ukraine as he meets his counterpart in Kiev for the first time since the truce was...
Putin set for Ukraine crisis talks
Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Milan to meet his Ukrainian counterpart and EU leaders to discuss the Ukraine conflict and gas supplies. …read more Source:...
Milan summit offers Putin and Poroshenko time to talk
MILAN (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko are looking to patch up a faltering ceasefire in eastern Ukraine and resolve a dispute over natural gas supplies when they meet in Milan on Friday. …read more Source:...
Sex and drugs and radiation: Dare-devil ‘stalkers’ illegally enter Chernobyl’s Dead Zone
A teenager in green and black paramilitary gear is speaking Russian in a hushed, low voice. An overgrown graveyard is barely visible off to the right of him. Traditional Ukrainian cloths hang on a few crosses. A white stork passes overhead. “This should be the cemetery,” he says. He puts away his GPS. He holds his hand-held Geiger...
Putin in talks to restore Kiev gas supply
President Putin raised hopes of a deal to switch Ukraine’s gas supplies back on ahead of his first meeting for… …read more Source: The...
