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Ukraine, Russia reach deal to release jailed Ukrainian pilot, says Ukraine’s PM
Ukraine and Russia have reached a deal to free a jailed Ukrainian pilot, President Petro Poroshenko said Tuesday, suggesting that she will be swapped for two Russian servicemen jailed in Ukraine this week. …read more Source:...
Putin’s call-in TV show prompts nationwide fixing spree
In just one day, roads of a Siberian city were repaired, swindled fishery workers got wads of cash and a child prodigy was invited to go to a Crimean summer camp — all thanks to President Vladimir Putin’s Thursday call-in show. …read more Source:...
Ukraine approves Poroshenko ally Volodymyr Groysman as PM
Ukrainian lawmakers have approved Volodymyr Groysman for the post of prime minister, paving the way for a new government in the biggest shake-up since a 2014 uprising brought in a pro-Western leadership. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s embattled PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk resigns, paving way for new government
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk tendered his resignation on Sunday, paving the way for Western-backed coalition parties to nominate an ally of President Petro Poroshenko to try to form a more stable government. …read more Source:...
Ukraine PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk to submit resignation Tuesday
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk has announced plans to resign this week in a televised broadcast. …read more Source:...
Dutch voters say No in referendum to EU-Ukraine deal
Dutch voters have overwhelmingly rejected a Ukraine-European Union treaty on closer political and economic ties, in a rebuke to their government and to the European Union establishment. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s fiscal service to look into president’s offshore assets after Panama Papers leak
Ukraine’s fiscal service will examine the documents relating to President Petro Poroshenko’s offshore assets that were published over the weekend after a massive data leak, the head of the service, Roman Nasirov, said on Tuesday. …read more Source:...
Dutch ‘Nexit’ vote just another force threatening to pull the EU apart: Don Murray
At first glance, a referendum in the Netherlands this week has nothing to do with the future of the EU. It’s on whether to ratify a European treaty on closer ties with Ukraine. But that’s just a pretext, Don Murray writes. …read more Source:...
Kremlin slams Western ‘hysteria’ in Ukrainian pilot court case
The Kremlin says “hysteria” in Ukraine and the West over an imprisoned Ukrainian pilot — who called in co-ordinates for shelling that killed two Russian journalists — is interfering with resolving her court case. …read more Source:...
Ukrainian lawyer defending Russian serviceman found slain
Relations between Ukraine and Russia grew even darker Friday when a Ukrainian lawyer was killed “in a violent way, and finished off with a fiream.” He had been defending a Russian citizen captured in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
