Section: International Business Times (USA)
Putin Aide Presses Russians To Quit Facebook Amid Battle Over Ukrainian Slur
An aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Facebook users within the nation to get rid of their accounts after the social networking site blocked several prominent Russian figures for using a derogatory term for Ukrainians on the site. Igor Sjchegolev advised Russians to switch to VKontake, a native social media site, in order to avoid...
Russian Aggression Is Greatest Threat To United States And Ukraine Should Be Armed Against Moscow, US General Says
Russia provides a greater threat to the United States’ existence than any other foreign nation, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman nominee Gen. Joseph F. Dunford told a Senate subcommittee Thursday. Dunford added that the United States should consider arming Ukraine to combat “Russian aggression” in the eastern Ukraine conflict, which has...
Quartet Of Crises Threatens Europe’s Core
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Four great crises around Europe’s fringes threaten to engulf the European Union, potentially setting the ambitious post-war unification project back by decades. The EU’s unity, solidarity and international standing are at risk from Greece’s debt, Russia’s role in Ukraine, Britain’s pursuit...
Putin Tells Obama He Wants Dialogue Based On Equality And Respect
Russian President Vladimir Putin called for dialogue based on equal treatment and mutual respect with the United States on Saturday in a congratulatory message to President Barack Obama marking U.S. Independence Day. Putin said U.S.-Russian relations remained important for solving global crises. The two countries have disagreements over the...
MH17: Malaysia Pushes For UN Tribunal To Prosecute Suspects In Air Disaster
Malaysia told the United Nations Security Council Thursday that it plans to present a resolution calling for an international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 last year. MH17 was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine in July last year, killing all 298 people on board. Ukraine and many...
Ukraine’s Separatist Rebels Announce Elections In October, Draw Reaction From Kiev
Pro-Russian separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine will hold their own elections in October, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic said Thursday. The announcement drew a rebuke from Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who said any election that did not occur with oversight from Kiev could violate last February’s...
Ukraine NATO Membership: Nationwide Referendum Could Be Limited By Proposed Law, Official Says
A proposed law in Ukraine’s parliament could limit the country’s ability to hold a nationwide referendum in the future on possible entry into NATO or the European Union, an official said Thursday. Days earlier, Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko established a rough timeline for the country’s entrance into the alliance and...
Ukraine Hopes To Produce Its Own Enriched Uranium With Help From US Company
A private U.S. nuclear energy company could begin helping Ukraine in the production of enriched uranium, the fuel in nuclear power plants, according to a statement on Thursday from Kiev’s nuclear authority, Yadernoye Toplivo. The meeting, which took place on June 23 in Kiev between ConverDyn and Ukrainian officials, is another indication of...
Amid Ukraine Tension, Russia Condemns ‘Confrontational’ US Military Strategy
A worn relationship between Russia and the United States reportedly took another step backwards this week. The Kremlin said Thursday that a recently released United States military strategy was confrontational and would further strain relations already tense over the conflict in Ukraine, reported Reuters. …read more Source: International...
Putin Urged To Allow Jews To Return To Crimea
Russian president Vladimir Putin has been urged to allow as many as 40,000 Jewish people who left Crimea during the reign of the Soviet Union to return to the now Russian-held peninsula, according to a Moscow Times report. Leonid Grach, head of the Crimean branch of the Communist party, has formally written to Putin to ask him to ease the complex...
