Section: The Globe and Mail (Canada)
Donetsk’s rebel leader sworn in as Ukraine-Russia crisis deepens
Alexander Zakharchenko was elected in a rogue vote on Sunday that was denounced as a ‘farce’ by Kiev and illegitimate by the West …read more Source: The Globe and...
Poroshenko threatens action against ‘criminals that crowned themselves’
Rebel leaders in the breakaway “people’s republics” of Donetsk and Lugansk got set to swear in the winners of hotly disputed elections and President Petro Poroshenko threatened to repeal a law granting the two regions temporary self-government …read more Source: The Globe and...
Pro-Russian separatist Zakharchenko wins Ukraine rebel vote
Sunday’s vote, the climax of a six-month separatist rebellion in Ukraine’s industrialised east, took place in defiance of Kiev’s pro-Western authorities …read more Source: The Globe and...
East Ukrainians head to the polls in controversial election
The United States and European Union have denounced as illegitimate the vote which is sure too to stoke tensions further between the West and Russia …read more Source: The Globe and...
Sham observer org for Ukrainian separatist strongholds invented day before election
The Agency for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or ASCE, was unveiled Saturday evening at a bewildering press conference here in the centre of war-battered Donetsk …read more Source: The Globe and...
Globe in Ukraine: A slow return to normal life on the front lines
While Ukraine’s civil war still rages in some pockets, something like peace has settled over other front lines since a September ceasefire …read more Source: The Globe and...
Russia may resume Ukraine gas supply next week if bills paid: Gazprom CEO
Moscow, Kiev and the European Union clinched a deal on Thursday that would resume supplies of Russian gas to Ukraine over the winter in return for payments …read more Source: The Globe and...
Ukraine gas supplies in doubt as Russia seeks EU payment deal
Moscow’s negotiators were quoted demanding firmer commitments from the European Union to cover Kiev’s pre-payments for energy …read more Source: The Globe and...
What the activist who started the Ukrainian revolt wants now
Mustafa Nayem says parliament needs to undertake rapid political reforms …read more Source: The Globe and...
Sanctions bind Russia’s energy elite to Putin
Sanctions have bound Russia’s political and business elite together in the Ukraine crisis – an unintended consequence of the West’s punitive measures …read more Source: The Globe and...
