Section: KXAN (USA)
Russia accuses Ukraine of ignoring peace deal
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused Ukrainian’s government of dragging its feet on implementing last year’s cease-fire agreement. Although last year’s cease-fire between separatists and Ukrainian government forces has largely held, none of the political elements of the deal like calling a local...
Russian judge reads verdict in trial of Ukrainian pilot
DONETSK, Russia (AP) — A Ukrainian pilot who is charged with complicity to murder in the deaths of two Russian journalists in war-torn eastern Ukraine has arrived to court in southwestern Russia where the verdict in her trial is to continue. Nadezhda Savchenko served in a volunteer battalion against Russia-backed rebels and was captured by...
New stats say Russia’s poor grew sharply
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s state statistical service says the number of people living in poverty last year spiked up by nearly 20 percent. Statistics reported Monday for last year said 19.2 million Russians — about 13 percent of the population — were living at or below the official poverty level of 9662 rubles ($142) a month. That’s an...
Sentencing expected tomorrow for Ukrainian pilot
DONETSK, Russia (AP) — A Russian court has begun reading a verdict for a Ukrainian pilot (Nadezhda Savchenko) who is charged with complicity to murder two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine. The judge quoted arguments by prosecutors who said the pilot called-in the coordinates for shelling that killed the two journalists and several civilians...
Verdict expected in trial of Ukrainian pilot
DONETSK, Russia (AP) — A judge in a border Russian town is expected to deliver a verdict in the case of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, charged with complicity to murder in the deaths of two Russian journalists in warring eastern Ukraine. The judge in Savchenko’s trial is expected to begin reading the verdict on Monday but the...
Russian air disasters of past decade
MOSCOW (AP) — A look at notable disasters over the past decade involving Russian planes or foreign planes: — March 19, 2016: A Boeing 737-800 flown by FlyDubai crashes while landing at Rostov-on-Don, killing all 62 aboard. — Oct. 31, 2015: An onboard bomb destroys a Metrojet airliner soon after taking off from Egypt’s Sharm al-Sheikh...
Russia marks 2 year anniversary of Crimea annexation
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin travelled to Crimea on Friday to mark the second anniversary of the peninsula’s annexation and inspect construction of a bridge meant to link it to mainland Russia. Russia’s annexation of Crimea, followed by a Moscow-backed rebellion in eastern Ukraine, prompted the West to impose...
France pushes for EU sanctions against Libyan officials
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — French foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault says Libyan officials who are blocking the country’s unity government will face sanctions. Ayrault is to meet Friday with the head of Libya’s unity government, Fayez Serraj, during a two-day visit to Tunisia. Libya’s unity government, based in Tunis, is supposed to...
Kremlin: Putin resists Obama’s call for Savchenko release
MOSCOW (AP) — Vladimir Putin is resisting President Barack Obama’s call for Russia to release a Ukrainian pilot who is on trial over the death of two Russian journalists, a Kremlin spokesman said Thursday. Nadezhda Savchenko was fighting with a Ukrainian volunteer brigade against Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine when she was...
European flight safety authority wants better info sharing
BERLIN (AP) — Europe’s flight safety authority is calling for better, quicker and broader information-sharing about possible risks to aircraft passing over combat zones following the 2014 downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine. The Cologne-based European Aviation Safety Agency said Thursday that “airlines have expressed a...
