Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
EU leaders fail to settle on who will be new foreign policy chief
Leaders will meet in August to decide Catherine Ashton’s successor, with Federica Mogherini one potential candidateEuropean Union leaders failed to agree on who should get the prestigious job as the 28-nation bloc’s new foreign policy chief to succeed Catherine Ashton, who also chairs the international negotiations on Iran’s...
US threatens ‘provocative’ Russia with further sanctions
Washington says it could expand the scope and target list if Russia continues ‘provocative’ behaviour in UkraineThe United States warned on Wednesday that it could expand the scope and target list of its new sanctions against Russia if Moscow continues “provocative” behavior in Ukraine. A senior US administration official...
EU in east-west power struggle over who should become foreign policy chief
Contender Federica Mogherini, regarded as overly pro-Russian in Ukraine crisis, faces opposition from Poland and Baltic statesThe long arm of the Kremlin extended into the very centre of European politics on Wednesday as the EU became embroiled in an east-west power struggle over who should become the new face of the union’s foreign...
EU poised to cut funding to Russia and widen sanctions over Ukraine conflict
Moscow faces bank curbs over new public-sector projects, and more asset-freezing for firms ‘undermining Ukraine sovereignty’The European Union is expected to cut off large-scale financing to Russia and widen sanctions against companies at a summit on Wednesday evening, blaming Moscow for supporting the increasingly bloody conflict in...
‘I was a separatist fighter in Ukraine’
Artur Gasparyan, 24, is from Spitak in Armenia. In May, he says he was recruited in Moscow to fight in eastern Ukraine. Now back in the Russian capital, he spoke to Mumin Shakirov About 10 guys showed up at a meeting somewhere near VDNKh [the All-Russian Exhibition Centre in northern Moscow]. We spoke in the entrance arch of a residential...
Ukrainian president blames Russian troops after transport plane shot down
Petro Poroshenko claims serving Russian military officers are taking part in operations in east UkraineUkraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, has claimed that serving Russian military officers are taking part in operations in east Ukraine, after an An-26 transport plane was reportedly shot down near the border.A statement on the...
Russia World Cup 2018: four years of excitement and controversy
Country has to build two-thirds of stadiums and must solve infrastructure problems before tournament kicks off againIt will be another four years before another ball is kicked at a World Cup, after the Germans finished off proceedings in Rio on Sunday. The next action will be in June 2018 in Moscow: Lionel Messi will be 31, Wayne Rooney will be...
Russia withdraws delegates from Farnborough air show
Further diplomatic fallout from Ukraine crisis as Kremlin’s head of defence pulls state officials following UK snubRussian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin has told his country’s defence delegates to withdraw from the Farnborough International Air Show and return home after being snubbed by the British government over the Ukraine...
Ukraine says it has made gains against rebels as Russia ‘considers strikes’
Government forces have broken through blockade near rebel-held city of Luhansk, says Ukrainian presidentUkrainian troops say they have made gains around one of the main remaining separatist strongholds, as Moscow reportedly weighed up “targeted” cross-border strikes following the alleged deadly shelling of a Russian...
Collapse of the USSR in pictures
The last Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev initiated reforms that ultimately led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Here are some of the key moments: … …read more Source: The...
