Section: Newsweek (USA)
Ukraine Peace Plan in Tatters, ‘Frozen Conflict’ Takes Shape
KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Kiev said on Wednesday it would halt payment of state funds in areas controlled by pro-Moscow rebels, as both sides hardened positions in what is rapidly becoming a “frozen conflict”: a long-term stalemate that the West believes is Russia’s aim. A day after the rebels held inauguration...
Russia Tells U.S. It Will not Attend 2016 Nuclear Security Summit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russia has told the United States that it will not attend a 2016 nuclear security summit, the State Department said on Wednesday, in the latest sign of frosty ties between Washington andMoscow. The bi-annual summit, to be held in Chicago in 2016, aims to enhance nuclear security around the world and, in the past, has...
75,000 March to Celebrate Russian ‘Unity’ as Police Arrest Neo-Nazis and Anti-Putin Protesters
More than 75,000 people marched through Moscow as mass demonstrations across Russia marked the country’s controversial annual celebration of ‘Unity Day’ on Tuesday. The national holiday, instituted in 2004 by President Vladimir Putin, was marked by mass marches celebrating ‘Russian-hood’. Since its inception, celebrations...
Alleged Child Molester Sentenced to Death by Show of Hands in Eastern Ukraine
East Ukrainian separatists have released video footage of the first criminal court case held in the self proclaimed republics of Luhansk and Donetsk, where militant rebels sentence a man to death for rape after a show of hands in favour. The footage shows the proceedings of the self-declared “New Russia First People’s Court” that took place...
The Battle of Ilovaisk: Details of a Massacre Inside Rebel-Held Eastern Ukraine
Petro Poroshenko, the former chocolate king and recently-elected president of Ukraine, stood proudly on the podium in Kiev’s Independence Square as 1,500 goose-stepping servicemen, armoured vehicles and rocket launchers passed before him. Crowds of smiling families in traditional embroidered shirts turned out to wave tiny yellow and blue...
Russia Seeking to Absorb East Ukrainian Rebels Into Armed Forces, Says Kiev
More than 30,000 militants in eastern Ukraine’s pro-Russian Donetsk and Luhansk regions have received conscription summons to join the Russian armed forces a day after their self-styled elections, according to Ukraine’s Security Service (SSU). Both leaders of pro-Russian forces in Donetsk and Luhansk won in landslide victories on...
Russian Women Bemoan a Lack of Men – and Their Money
The kettle was furiously boiling, as was the atmosphere in the kitchen. The two women, Yelena Lazareva and her daughter Yekaterina are swapping stories about their loneliness – and complaining about Russian men. The subject is clearly often discussed in the two-bedroom apartment they share in a 12-storey building in Moscow’s suburbs. Both...
Pro-Russian Leader Wins Ukrainian Separatist Election, as Kiev Dubs It a ‘Farce’
Pro-Russian separatist Alexander Zakharchenko has easily won an election for leadership of a breakaway republic in eastern Ukraine, the vote’s organisers said on Monday. Sunday’s vote, the climax of a six-month separatist rebellion in Ukraine’s industrialised east, took place in defiance of Kiev’s pro-Western authorities...
Ukraine’ Calls on Russia to Denounce East Ukraine Rebels’ Vote
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko condemned eastern separatist elections as illegitimate on Sunday and called on Russia not to recognize the result of the leadership vote. Poroshenko said the election was “a farce, (conducted) under the barrels of tanks and machineguns” that violated a series of agreements...
Russian Actor Is Fires at Ukrainian Forces, Wearing Press Helmet
A Russian film star’s “surprise” visit to Ukrainian, pro-Russian separatists in the country’s east has caused a backlash from local media and authorities, after video footage posted online on Friday appeared to show him firing a mounted machine gun at the Kiev-held Donetsk airport and mocking the “ceasefire” agreed by pro-Kiev and...
