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      Communist Faction In Ukrainian Parliament Dissolved
      Jul24

      Communist Faction In Ukrainian Parliament Dissolved

      Ukrainian parliament speaker Oleksandr Turchynov has dissolved the Communist faction in the parliament. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

      Australia readies 50 police to send to Ukraine
      Jul24

      Australia readies 50 police to send to Ukraine

      Australia has sent 50 police to London in anticipation of deploying them to Ukraine to secure the Malaysian plane crash site as part of a potential U.N. team that’s under consideration, the Australian prime minister said Thursday. …read more Source: Miami...

      Official denies missiles that hit Ukrainian fighter jets fired from Russia: report
      Jul24

      Official denies missiles that hit Ukrainian fighter jets fired from Russia: report

      Ukraine’s Security Council said on Wednesday preliminary information indicated that missiles which brought down two government fighter jets over eastern Ukraine were fired from Russia …read more Source: The Globe and...

      Anthony Maslin And Marite Norris, Parents Of 3 Kids Killed On Flight MH17, Speak Out
      Jul24

      Anthony Maslin And Marite Norris, Parents Of 3 Kids Killed On Flight MH17, Speak Out

      Anthony Maslin and Marite Norris, who lost their three children and Norris’ father when Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, have released a statement describing their anguish. The couple had remained in Amsterdam while Nick Norris, 68, brought the kids — Otis, 8, Evie, 10 and Mo, 12 — home...

      40 Bodies From MH17 Solemnly Returned to Dutch Soil
      Jul24

      40 Bodies From MH17 Solemnly Returned to Dutch Soil

      (EINDHOVEN, Netherlands) — Victims of the Malaysian jetliner shot down over Ukraine returned at last Wednesday to Dutch soil in 40 wooden coffins, solemnly and gently carried to 40 identical hearses, flags at half-staff flapping in the wind. MoreEU Preparing Further Sanctions Against Russia After MH17 CrashMalaysia Airlines Ukraine Crash:...

      Amsterdam Remembers MH17 Victims In Silent March
      Jul24

      Amsterdam Remembers MH17 Victims In Silent March

      Dressed in white, Amsterdam residents walked silently through the city’s streets on July 23 in memory of the victims of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, 193 of whom were Dutch. Flags on government and private buildings flew at half mast as mourners released hundreds of white balloons into the sky from the capital’s Dam Square....

      Disenchanted With Putin, Some Russians Are Voting With Their Feet
      Jul24

      Disenchanted With Putin, Some Russians Are Voting With Their Feet

      By Alissa de Carbonnel MOSCOW (Reuters) – Most of Vladimir Paley’s clients want him to dig up their family history with one goal in mind: making a case to obtain foreign citizenship and leave Russia. Six months ago the soft-spoken genealogist had few such requests, but this month he hired an assistant to help him with the flow of...

      Ukraine Separatists Had Surface-to-Air Missiles, Rebel Leader Admits
      Jul24

      Ukraine Separatists Had Surface-to-Air Missiles, Rebel Leader Admits

      A separatist commander in Ukraine admitted Wednesday that pro-Russian fighters possessed the surface-to-air BUK missiles that are believed to have brought down the Malaysia Airlines commercial flight in the east of the country last week. Alexander Khodakovsky, commander of the Vostok Battalion, told Reuters that separatist groups had possession...

      Donetsk Rebel Commander Admits Having Buk Missiles
      Jul24

      Donetsk Rebel Commander Admits Having Buk Missiles

      In a July 22 interview with Reuters, pro-Russian separatist commander Aleksandr Khodakovsky admitted the separatists had the type of antiaircraft missiles believed to have been used to shoot down a Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine. Khodakovsky, the commander of the insurgents’ Vostok Battalion, told Reuters he “knew a Buk was...

      Long odds for justice in Malaysia jet disaster
      Jul24

      Long odds for justice in Malaysia jet disaster

      The airliner’s destruction over eastern Ukraine on July 17 might qualify as a war crime or a crime against humanity, but winning a guilty verdict would be difficult because it would require proving there was a systematic or widespread attack against civilians, experts said. “Malaysia Airlines was a clearly identified commercial...