Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
Kazakh university accused of firing professor over lecture on Ukraine
Academic claims he is being removed from post after Russian diplomat complained talk would ‘introduce falsehoods into students’ minds’. Eurasianet.org reportsWhen Kazakhstan opened the doors of the Nazarbayev University in 2010, the institution was hailed as a promising new bastion of academic freedom in an educational system still...
Oleg Sentsov sings Ukrainian national anthem as he is sentenced to 20 years in Russian penal colony – video
Film director Oleg Sentsov sings the Ukrainian national anthem as he is sentenced to 20 years in a high-security penal colony by a Russian military court for ‘terrorist attacks’ in Crimea. Along with a second defendant, Alexander Kolchenko who was sentenced to 10 years in prison, Sentsov laughs in derision when the sentencing was...
‘A court of occupiers cannot be just’: Ukrainian director’s courtroom speech
Oleg Sentsov has been sentenced to 20 years on terrorism charges by a Russian court. Here’s the full text his rousing speech from the dock A Russian court has sentenced Crimean film director Oleg Sentsov to 20 years in jail, after a trial that has been criticised by observers as farcical.The prosecutution accused Sentsov of organising a...
Russian court jails Ukrainian filmmaker for 20 years over terror offences
Oleg Sentsov is convicted of plotting terror attacks but critics say the prosecution was in revenge for his pro-Ukrainian viewsA Russian court has convicted a Ukrainian filmmaker of conspiracy to commit terror attacks and sentenced him to 20 years in prison.The court in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don said on Tuesday that Oleg Sentsov had set...
US sends F-22 fighter jets to Europe as part of Ukraine response
Warplanes will train alongside Eurofighter and other Nato aircraft as ‘Russia’s military activity continues to be of great concern’, says air force secretary Related: Nato reports surge in jet interceptions as Russia tensions increase The US is to deploy F-22 fighter jets to Europe as part of efforts to support eastern European...
Kyoto protocol’s carbon credit scheme ‘increased emissions by 600m tonnes’
Major UNFCCC carbon trading scheme hit by serious corruption allegations involving organised crime in Russia and UkraineA key carbon offsetting scheme was so open to abuse that three quarters of its allowances lacked environmental integrity, a new report says.UN officials confirm the findings by the Stockholm Environment Institute that around...
Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande to meet to tackle Europe’s migrant crisis
Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande to discuss what has been described as the worst refugee crisis since World War II and the conflict in UkraineGerman chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande will meet in Berlin on Monday to renew European efforts to tackle the biggest migrant crisis in 50 years.Their priorities include...
Bitter Honeydew review – Kirill Golovchenko’s tableaux on the road to nowhere
Kirill Golovchenko’s stark photographs capture the lives of Ukraine’s roadside stallholders to striking, often surreal, effectBitter Honeydew begins with a poem, Sun of September, markets and flies, written by the contemporary Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan. It speaks of ordinary things seen in the dog days of summer when memory and...
Russian biker gang to recreate second world war as epic stunt show
Night Wolves biker gang have become part of a new patriotic drive in Russia and have been given land in annexed Crimea to put on their enormous showBreathtaking motorbike stunts, laser effects, rock music and pyrotechnics: the story of the second world war has never looked so sexy. Russia’s Night Wolves biker gang will put on an enormous...
Russia is using jailed Ukrainian pilot as pawn in its game with west
As Nadiya Savchenko appears in court on charges of murdering journalists, her lawyer argues that evidence proving her innocence is being wilfully ignored Читайте эту статью на русскомUkrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko was captured by separatists in the east of the country in June last year. The Moscow-backed militia battalion Zarya handed her over...
