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2 Cases of Polio Found in Ukraine, Caused by Mutated Virus
The World Health Organization says officials have found two children stricken by polio in Ukraine, the country’s first cases of the paralytic disease in nine years.Health officials had warned Ukraine was at high risk of a polio outbreak due to its low vaccination rates;… …read more Source:...
Right-wing Party Exits Parliamentary Coalition in Ukraine
A right-wing party says it is leaving Ukraine’s ruling parliamentary coalition because it’s opposed to a constitutional amendment that would give greater powers to the rebel-held eastern region.The Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko, which came in fifth in last year’s election,… …read more Source:...
Ukrainian Kids Go to Military Camp
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.The training at a National Guard camp about 75 kilometers (45 miles) from Kiev… …read more Source:...
Protests Break out in Ukraine over Giving Regions More Power
Clashes have broken out between police and protesters outside the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev after a controversial vote to give greater powers to separatist regions in the east.The decentralization of power was a condition of a truce signed in February aimed at ending the… …read more Source:...
Leaders Discuss Possible New Ukraine Summit, France Says
The leaders of France, Germany and Russia have spoken by phone and are exploring the possibility of a summit with Ukraine’s president about the conflict in the country’s east.French President Francois Hollande’s office said he, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian… …read more Source:...
Ukraine Asks Russia for Lower Gas Prices for Winter Season
Ukraine asked Russia on Friday for lower gas prices for the winter and said Moscow should accept to write off a part of its loans to Kiev, as other international bondholders did this week.Gas disputes between Russia and Ukraine have led to cut-offs of supply in the past,… …read more Source:...
Ukraine Negotiators Call for School-start Truce
The warring sides in the eastern Ukraine conflict have called for a cease-fire on Sept. 1, the day that the new school year is to begin.Speaking after a meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group in the Belarusian capital Minsk, OSCE representative Martin Sajdik said Wednesday… …read more Source:...
A Look at Recent Politically Tainted Trials in Russia
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… …read more Source:...
Russia Looks to Make Food Smuggling as Serious as Arms Trade
Russian customs officials want to make smuggling banned Western foods a criminal offense as serious as dealing in radioactive materials or explosives.In retaliation to Western sanctions over its role in the Ukraine crisis, Russia last year banned certain food imports from… …read more Source:...
Moscow Urges Europe to Get Ukraine to Comply with Truce
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pushed Wednesday for European powers to get Ukraine to comply with a truce in eastern Ukraine.The already shaky truce between government troops and Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine was again thrown into question this week when… …read more Source:...
