Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
‘A revolution is impossible in Belarus’
Analysis: A stymied opposition, turmoil in Ukraine and a lack of interest from the west have effectively ruled out prospects of an uprising, writes Siarhei Bohdan The political year for the Belarusian opposition begins today, on Freedom Day, with a state-sanctioned rally.The day, which marks the foundation of the Belarusian People’s...
Fragile truce brings limited respite to war-weary people of eastern Ukraine
The population of eastern Ukraine faces a humanitarian crisis with an acute lack of basic amenities and mental health problems taking a heavy tollJust over a month after a fragile ceasefire came into effect in eastern Ukraine, a traumatised population is struggling with a lack of basic services, critical shortages in medical supplies and power...
Invisible army: the Russian soldier sent to fight in Ukraine
Moscow denies its soldiers are crossing the border but 20-year-old conscript Dorji Batomunkuev, who was seriously injured near Donetsk, tells a different story. He talks to Elena Kostyuchenko of Novaya GazetaDorji Batomunkuev, military unit number 46108, is 20 years old and part of the Russian fifth tank brigade from Ulan-Ude, a city near the...
Ukraine makes a plea for added help in repairing economy in wake of upheaval
Finance minister wants to see debt cut and interest payable on remainder reduced so country can move rapidly towards stability Ukraine could be forced into a damaging default unless talks to restructure its debts concluded successfully and speedily, the country’s finance minister warned yesterday.Natalie Jaresko said all her country’s...
Ukraine’s former ruling party hit by spate of apparent suicides
Four members of Viktor Yanukovych’s Party of Regions have died within weeks as investigations into old regime officials mount upBefore jumping, Mykhailo Chechetov wrote a note. He said he had “no moral strength” to live, and thanked people for their support. Then he stepped out of the window of his 17th-floor apartment, leaving his slippers...
Son of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych ‘drowns in lake’
Yanukovych’s son, also called Viktor, was reportedly driving a van that fell through the ice on a Siberian lake at the weekendThe son of Ukraine’s former president Viktor Yanukovych drowned over the weekend, after the van he was driving fell through the ice on a Siberian lake, according to reports.Yanukovych’s son, also called...
Russia has more right to Crimea than Britain to Falkands, says Russian MP
Head of the Duma’s foreign affairs committee, Alexei Pushkov, responds to British foreign secretary’s attack on Crimea’s annexationRussia has more claim to Crimea than Britain has to the Falkland Islands, a senior Russian lawmaker insisted Sunday as London again denounced Moscow’s “illegal annexation” of the...
Son of former Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych dies in accident in Russia
Viktor Yanukovych’s son of same name killed after minibus plunges through ice on Lake Baikal in Siberia, reports Ukrainian politicianAn associate of Ukraine’s deposed president says the former leader’s son has died in an accident in which a minibus plunged through the ice on Lake Baikal in Russia.Nestor Shufrych, a deputy in...
The 20 photographs of the week
Cyclone Pam hits Vanuatu, the dramatic election in Israel, the attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis, the solar eclipse – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week … …read more Source: The...
Fifa’s Sepp Blatter: 2018 World Cup in Russia will bring peace to region
• Progress made on treatment of migrant workers in Qatar says Blatter• Fifa raises three-fold amount of money paid to European Club AssociationThe Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, has rounded on those calling for a boycott of the 2018 World Cup in Russia and claimed holding the tournament there will bring peace to the region.This week the Ukrainian...
