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Russia plans another aid convoy to Ukraine: Lavrov
Moscow (AFP) – Moscow has informed Kiev that it intends to send a second humanitarian aid convoy into rebel-held eastern Ukraine in the coming days, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.”We sent yesterday an official note to the Ukrainian foreign ministry with information about our intention to prepare the next convoy with...
Aeroflot defies sanctions to create new low-cost airline
Moscow (AFP) – Russian flag carrier Aeroflot will create a new low-cost unit after Western sanctions grounded its first effort to enter the market, the airline’s chief executive said on Sunday.”We will after all register a new airline,” Aeroflot chief executive Vitaly Savelyev was quoted as saying by Russian news...
Germany optimistic on outlook despite weak Q2, report says
Frankfurt (AFP) – The German government remains optimistic in its outlook for Europe’s biggest economy, despite negative growth in the second quarter, the weekly Der Spiegel reported Sunday.For the whole of 2014, the German economy could even notch up faster growth than the 1.8 percent it is currently predicting, the magazine said,...
Russian Separatists Paraded Ukrainian POWs Through City — And Then Hosed Down The Street
Pro-Russian separatist rebels force-marched dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war along a main street of the rebel-held Ukrainian town of Donetsk on Sunday. People shouted “fascists” at the group, who walked with heads bowed. They were largely unshaven and dishevelled and dressed either in combat fatigues or civilian clothes. A voice...
Poroshenko rallies thousands in ‘battle for Ukraine’
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko on Sunday decried Russian “aggression” as Kiev staged a symbolic Independence Day parade while battling pro-Moscow rebels in the east of the country. Army cadets and military hardware crossed Kiev’s Maidan, or Independence Square, as thousands rallied in an emotional...
Families wage citizen campaign to solve MH370 mystery
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) – Chinese physics student Jimmy Wang had no interest in aviation until March 8, when Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing with his 58-year-old father Wang Lijun aboard.But Wang, 31, now spends evenings in central China combing through aviation blogs for Boeing 777 technical specs, exchanging what he finds with...
Russia’s ‘Military Trucks’ Have Now Left Ukraine
The Russian “military trucks” that entered Ukraine on Friday, prompting a call of “invasion” by Ukraine, have returned to Russia, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Saturday. Poroshenko told U.S. Vice President Joe Biden that the Russian convoy had exited his country, according to a readout of the call provided by...
Here’s How The Kremlin’s English-Language Propaganda Organs Are Spinning Russia’s Incursion Into Ukraine
The current situation in Ukraine is reaching a head as Russian armor and aid trucks are freely flowing over the boarder, an act that Ukraine has called a “direct invasion.” For the first time in months of crisis, accused Russia of directly intervening in Ukraine’s restive east, where Kiev has been fighting Russian-supported...
White House: Russia Tried To Sneak Military Vehicles Into Ukraine By Painting Them Like Civilian Trucks
The White House accused Russia of painting military vehicles to look like ordinary civilian trucks, as Ukraine claimed there was a “direct invasion” by a Russian convoy without its consent. Caitlin Hayden, a spokesperson for the White House’s National Security Council, said on Friday that Russia was forcing its way into Ukraine....
Russia’s ‘Eurasian Union’ Shows Putin’s Nostalgia For The Soviet Union
“It is like you’ve been dating a girl for a long time,” grins Pavel Andreev, an editor at a state-controlled broadcaster, Rossiya Segodnya, explaining why it has taken so long to press ahead with the Eurasian Union. “You’ve met the parents, you’ve spent a weekend with the families, and now you want to get...
