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Ukraine crisis: Putin backs Ukraine ceasefire plan
Jun21

Ukraine crisis: Putin backs Ukraine ceasefire plan

Russian President Vladimir Putin is calling on both sides in the conflict in east Ukraine to halt all military operations. …read more Source:...

Separatist leader dismisses Ukraine cease-fire as ‘fake’
Jun21

Separatist leader dismisses Ukraine cease-fire as ‘fake’

Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s embattled east have dismissed a unilateral cease-fire ordered by President Petro Poroshenko as fake, while nine Ukrainian service members were wounded in clashes just before and after the cease-fire began. …read more Source: CTV...

Separatist leader dismisses Ukraine cease-fire
Jun21

Separatist leader dismisses Ukraine cease-fire

Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s embattled east have dismissed a unilateral cease-fire ordered by President Petro Poroshenko as fake, while nine Ukrainian service members were wounded in clashes just before and after the cease-fire began. …read more Source: CTV...

Ukraine crisis: Putin orders forces in the Urals on combat alert
Jun21

Ukraine crisis: Putin orders forces in the Urals on combat alert

Russian President Vladimir Putin today ordered military forces in central Russia on combat alert as well as a drill of airborne troops, a day after Ukraine ordered a ceasefire with pro-Russian rebels. …read more Source:...

Ukraine ceasefire begins to let Pro-Russian forces leave
Jun21

Ukraine ceasefire begins to let Pro-Russian forces leave

Ukraine’s president ordered his forces to cease fire Friday and halt military operations for a week against pro-Russian separatists in the country’s east — the first step in a peace plan he hopes will end the fighting that has killed hundreds. …read more Source:...

Leadership of military observer mission in Ukraine to be taken over by Canada
Apr30

Leadership of military observer mission in Ukraine to be taken over by Canada

Three Canadians will lead an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) military observer mission in the central European country, according to a media report by Postmedia News. Citing Defence Minister Rob Nicholson Wednesday (April 30) Postmedia reports the three Canadians from the Directorate of Arms Control Verification will...

Politics Today – April 20, 2014
Apr20

Politics Today – April 20, 2014

Listen On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda reviews statements by Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird about the situation in Ukraine. He talks about the shutdown of government websites because of a security threat from the “Heartbleed Bug”. And he reports on the slow...

Canada’s PM Harper, FM Baird, on Ukraine and Russia’s ‘provocations’
Apr14

Canada’s PM Harper, FM Baird, on Ukraine and Russia’s ‘provocations’

Listen After a meeting with several East European ambassadors in Ottawa, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird once again condemned Russia for its most recent actions in Ukraine. Reports of pro-Russian separatists taking over buildings in eastern Russia on the weekend fuelled more of the Canadian...

Russia imposes retaliatory sanctions on 13 Canadians
Mar24

Russia imposes retaliatory sanctions on 13 Canadians

Russian President Vladimir Putin has imposed retaliatory sanctions on 13 Canadian officials including five members of the Conservative government, three opposition party members, and the president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, banning them from entering Russia. A statement on the sanctions was issued Monday (March 24). Russia’s...

Canada’s PM Harper condemns ‘unilateral’ actions of ‘Putin regime’
Mar17

Canada’s PM Harper condemns ‘unilateral’ actions of ‘Putin regime’

Listen Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced more economic sanctions against Russia on Monday (March 17) during a meeting with Ukraine’s Ambassador to Canada Vadym Prystaiko in Ottawa, and condemned the “illegal, dangerous, unilateral actions of the Putin regime in the Crimea”. On Sunday, the Prime Minister had called the...