Section: Newsweek (USA)
Putin, Merkel and Hollande Agree to Meet for Ukraine Talks
Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to meet with the leaders of Germany and France on the sidelines of the G20 summit in China next month to discuss Ukraine, the Kremlin announced on Wednesday. Violence between Ukraine’s armed forces and the Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine’s east has escalated over the summer, prompting...
Poland Hunts Officer Suspected of Foreign Spy Links
Poland’s military police is searching for a reserve officer suspected of offering himself as a double agent for an unnamed foreign intelligence service, according to a notice on the service’s official website. The man has been identified as 41-year-old Lieutenant Piotr Capala who was once stationed at an air transport base in Warsaw....
Ukraine Issues Pokemon Go Guidelines
Ukraine is drafting regulation for Pokemon Go players, amid concern that some of them may put themselves in grave danger and wander towards sensitive sites or near the frontlines in the country’s east. Areas of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions have been held by Russian-backed separatists since 2014 and despite a ceasefire...
Russia and China Agree Joint To Hold Military Drill in South China Sea
Russia and China have agreed to hold a joint naval drill in the South China Sea in September. The decision was taken after a final meeting to discuss the preparation for the event in Zhangjiang, Russian state news agency Itar-Tass reported. Joint Sea 2016 will be the fifth annual drill held by the two countries, with the last one taking place in...
What Trump Has in Common With Putin’s Close Allies
Given that the main body evidence for any direct contact between the two came from Trump himself, when he boasted on two occasions that “nice” Putin “contacted” him and that “he spoke to Putin directly and indirectly” in 2014, it is harder to believe that now Trump has actually disowned those claims himself. However, Trump staffers’...
Low Wages, High Prices: Crimeans Suffer Under Russia
More than two years after Russia annexed Crimea and promised its 2 million people a better life, residents say prices have soared, wages and pensions have stagnated and tourists have fled. The sunny and mountainous Black Sea peninsula is back in the news, with Russian President Vladimir Putin accusing Kiev of sending infiltrators across the...
Russia Begins Military Drill in Crimea as Ukraine Tension Mounts
Russia’s armed forces have kicked off tactical exercises on the Crimean peninsula, according to state news agency Itar-Tass, as Ukraine has expressed concern about the mounting tension in its southeast. Crimea has been under Russian control since 2014, with Russia fully integrating it in its security network, however, Ukraine and the U.N....
Ukraine Reports Three Soldiers Dead in Heavy Shelling
Three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and six injured by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, a top Kiev official said on Friday. Speaking at a press briefing the Ukrainian president’s spokesman on security, Alexander Motuzyaniyk, said rebels launched more than 500 mortar and over 300 artillery shells at government-held...
Ukraine: No Need For Russian Ambassador As Relations Near Non-Existent
Ukraine has no need for a Russian ambassador at present, so poor are diplomatic ties between the countries, according to Ukraine’s foreign minister. Pavlo Klimkin told Ukrainian broadcaster Channel 5 that Moscow has ceased dialogue with Kiev. “Let us imagine that, theoretically, today or in the coming days a Russian ambassador comes here,”...
Trump Does Not Want to Be U.S. President, Michael Moore Says
U.S. filmmaker Michael Moore, famous for his political commentary, has declared that he knows “for a fact” that U.S. reality TV star-turned-presidential hopeful Donald Trump never intended to get to the White House. Trump’s Republican candidacy has shocked many by eliminating politicians with long tenures in Washington D.C. despite...
