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Ukrainian minister and Odessa governor trade insults – video
An argument between the Ukrainian interior minister Arsen Avakov and Odessa governor Mikheil Saakashvili comes to a head when Avakov throws water at Saakashvili at a heated government meeting on Tuesday. The water fight happened after a slanging match over who is more corrupt. Last week Ukrainian MPs got into a brawl during a parliament session...
Ukrainian minister throws water in Odessa governor’s face
Spat between Arsen Avakov and Mikheil Saakashvili follows a brawl between an MP and the prime minister last weekChaos broke out at a Ukrainian government meeting after the interior minister threw water in the face of Mikheil Saakashvili, formerly president of Georgia and now governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region.Arsen Avakov wrote on Facebook...
Ukraine’s MPs brawl in parliament – video
Fighting breaks out between members of Ukraine’s ruling coalition when Oleh Barna, a member of the president’s bloc, physically picks up the prime minister, Arseny Yatseniuk, and pulls him from the podium. Yatseniuk is defending his embattled government’s record when Barna walks over to him and grabs him around the waist …...
Who wants Donald Trump in the White House? Evidently, Putin does
Article in the Daily Telegraph’s Russia Beyond The Headlines supplement reveals that the Kremlin is eager to see Trump in the White HouseDonald Trump’s call for the United States to close its borders to all Muslims was called “reprehensible” by one New York Times op-ed writer and “outlandish” by another, the excellent Wajahat Ali (who...
Nadia Chomyn
Autistic artist who had an extraordinary ability at a very young age to draw realistic depictions of animals and horsemenNadia Chomyn, who has died aged 48 after a short illness, was autistic with severe learning difficulties. At a very young age, and breaking all the accepted rules of the development of graphic representation in children, Nadia...
Ukraine conflict have left more than 9,000 dead, says UN
Report says over 20,000 injured since start of war last year, but ceasefire in August has contributed to a sharp decline in casualtiesMore than 9,000 people have died in 21 months of fighting in eastern Ukraine, even as a new ceasefire has largely held and contributed to a sharp decline in casualties since mid-August, according to the UN.A report...
Stolen Dutch paintings offered for sale by Ukrainian militia
Museum from which golden age artworks vanished in 2005 believes security service and political party also involved in attempt to sell canvases A hoard of stolen golden age Dutch paintings is being offered for sale by an ultra-nationalist militia in Ukraine, according to the museum from which the works vanished a decade ago.The Westfries Museum in...
Syria and the cigar fug of war – cartoon
Chris Riddell on Britain joining Russia and the US in a deadly game … …read more Source: The...
Bengal tiger cub dies of cold at Crimea zoo hit by power cuts
Yalta zoo’s director criticised for not buying generators to keep rare cub alive as fears mount for welfare of other animals in two-week blackoutA rare white Bengal tiger cub has died at a zoo in Crimea due to the cold caused by a two-week power blackout.Oleg Zubkov, director of the zoo in the Black Sea resort of Yalta, told news agencies...
The Guardian view on Vladimir Putin’s state of the nation address: things are not going well | Editorial
The Russian president’s diatribe against Turkey cannot conceal his foreign policy failuresPresident Vladimir Putin devoted most of his state of the nation address on Thursday to pledging that Turkey would long regret the recent shooting down of a Russian warplane on the Syrian-Turkish border, and to charges that Turkey was selling on oil...
