Section: Associated Press (USA)
AP Interview: Ukrainian president pins hopes on UN talks
NEW YORK (AP) — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he wants Monday’s planned meeting between President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin to lead to better implementation of an accord aimed at halting war in eastern Ukraine…. …read more Source: Associated...
The Latest: Poroshenko says war in east stunts development
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Developments from the final day of a record U.N. gathering of world leaders to launch sweeping development goals:… …read more Source: Associated...
Ukraine’s richest man plays both sides of war’s frontline
KRASNODON, Ukraine (AP) — In this town deep in eastern Ukraine’s rebel heartland, about a quarter of the population works in the coal mines owned by billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man. Here and elsewhere in territory controlled by the separatist insurgency, the tycoon keeps the lights on and people clothed and...
Russian gets prison for painting star in Ukraine’s colors
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has sentenced a man to more than two years in prison for painting a star on the spire of a Moscow skyscraper in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. Four co-defendants were acquitted…. …read more Source: Associated...
Putin orders Russian military drills amid Ukraine tensions
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian military units have been scrambled from their bases as part of snap drills ordered by President Vladimir Putin, the latest in a series of Russian war games amid tensions with the West over Ukraine…. …read more Source: Associated...
NATO opens military center in Lithuania amid Ukraine crisis
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Fighter jets roaring overhead, NATO on Thursday inaugurated a military center in the Lithuanian capital amid growing concerns in the Baltic countries over Russia’s military presence…. …read more Source: Associated...
Ukrainian kids go to military camp
STARE, Ukraine (AP) — More than 100 Ukrainian schoolchildren will have unusual tales to tell their mates when classes resume, after spending part of their summer vacations undergoing training by the National Guard…. …read more Source: Associated...
Ukraine police officer killed, 100 others injured in clashes
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov says one law enforcement officer has been killed and about 100 others injured in clashes outside parliament…. …read more Source: Associated...
Ukraine reaches debt relief deal with creditors
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine has reached a crucial deal with its international bondholders that will help prop up its government finances and keep the struggling country from defaulting on its debt…. …read more Source: Associated...
A look at recent politically tainted trials in Russia
MOSCOW (AP) — The guilty verdict Tuesday for Crimean filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in a Russian maximum-security prison for an alleged terror conspiracy, follows a plethora of recent Russian trials that are widely seen as warnings to society not to question its Kremlin rulers…. …read more...
