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    Verkhovna Rada first vice-chair visits Ottawa
    Mar04

    Verkhovna Rada first vice-chair visits Ottawa

    Friday, March 4 , 2016 - 18:06 (EET) Section: The Ukrainian Weekly (USA)

    OTTAWA – The first vice-chairman of Ukraine’s Parliament, Andriy Parubiy, held a number of fruitful meetings with Canadian government officials and politicians, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, during a late February visit to Ottawa. During his meeting with a group of senators led by the chair of the Committee of Foreign Affairs and...

    Ukrainian side says no elections without full security in Donetsk-Luhansk
    Mar04

    Ukrainian side says no elections without full security in Donetsk-Luhansk

    Friday, March 4 , 2016 - 17:51 (EET) Section: The Ukrainian Weekly (USA)

    Negotiations in the Minsk Contact Group on political issues are so configured as to push Ukraine into recognizing the Moscow-controlled Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” (DPR, LPR), first de facto and then de jure, through local elections and a “special status.” For its part, Ukraine shows increasing tenacity in resisting that push....

    Surkov and Gryzlov: Russia’s new negotiators on Ukraine
    Mar04

    Surkov and Gryzlov: Russia’s new negotiators on Ukraine

    Friday, March 4 , 2016 - 17:51 (EET) Section: The Ukrainian Weekly (USA)

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently appointed Vladislav Surkov and Boris Gryzlov to negotiate – in two separate formats – an outcome to Russia’s war in Ukraine’s east (Censor.net.ua, January 15, 2016; TASS, December 26, 2015). Messrs. Surkov and Gryzlov have long-standing personal ties to Mr. Putin and will report to him on...

    Berlin and Paris soften up Kyiv ahead of ‘decisive’ Normandy meeting
    Mar04

    Berlin and Paris soften up Kyiv ahead of ‘decisive’ Normandy meeting

    Friday, March 4 , 2016 - 17:51 (EET) Section: The Ukrainian Weekly (USA)

    In Kyiv, on February 22-23, while a working visit, German Minister of Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier portrayed the “Normandy” group’s upcoming March 3 meeting in Paris as a make-or-break event, designed to overcome the diplomatic deadlock over “the Ukraine crisis.” The diplomatic process is stuck in a crisis of its own, Mr....

    Telling Ukraine’s story
    Mar04

    Telling Ukraine’s story

    Friday, March 4 , 2016 - 17:36 (EET) Section: The Ukrainian Weekly (USA)

    Ukrainians may have been disappointed that the powerful film “Winter on Fire, which captured indelible images of Ukraine’s Euro-Maidan-turned-Revolution of Dignity, did not win an Oscar. The work of a team of filmmakers, it was one of five films nominated for the Academy Award in the documentary feature category. (The prize for best...

    Continuation of Western sanctions on Russia increasingly depends on Ukraine, Ohryzko says
    Mar04

    Continuation of Western sanctions on Russia increasingly depends on Ukraine, Ohryzko says

    Friday, March 4 , 2016 - 17:36 (EET) Section: The Ukrainian Weekly (USA)

    The maintenance of Western sanctions is contingent upon Ukraine’s willingness to reform itself, according to former Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko. If Ukraine does not act, the West will ultimately lift the sanctions and Ukraine will have only itself to blame for its resulting isolation. In a commentary published on...

    U.S. statement on anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity
    Mar04

    U.S. statement on anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity

    Friday, March 4 , 2016 - 17:36 (EET) Section: The Ukrainian Weekly (USA)

    The following press statement was made by Mark C. Toner, deputy spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State, on February 20. Today, we join the people of Ukraine in honoring the memory of their Revolution of Dignity and those who gave their lives to build a more just, democratic and European Ukraine. They braved sniper […] …read more...

    March 6, 2014
    Mar04

    March 6, 2014

    Friday, March 4 , 2016 - 17:36 (EET) Section: The Ukrainian Weekly (USA)

    Two years ago, on March 6, 2014, the leadership of the European Union, including EU Council President Herman van Rompuy, announced that the EU would sign the political portion of its Association Agreement with Ukraine before the May 25 presidential election in Ukraine, and that the signing of the free trade pact would be delayed. […] …read...

    ‘I Will Return To Ukraine, Dead Or Alive’ — Savchenko’s Unspoken Last Words In Russian Court
    Mar04

    ‘I Will Return To Ukraine, Dead Or Alive’ — Savchenko’s Unspoken Last Words In Russian Court

    Friday, March 4 , 2016 - 15:36 (EET) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    Read our translation of the final statement that jailed Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko prepared to make at the end of a widely criticized trial in a Russian court, where she is being charged with complicity in the killing of two Russian journalists …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Situation Report: U.S. warships in the South China Sea; Team Trump; North Korea rattles nukes; choppers for Jordan; rumble in the Arctic; story of Ukrainian hack attack; and lots more
    Mar04

    Situation Report: U.S. warships in the South China Sea; Team Trump; North Korea rattles nukes; choppers for Jordan; rumble in the Arctic; story of Ukrainian hack attack; and lots more

    Friday, March 4 , 2016 - 15:06 (EET) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    By Paul McLeary with Adam Rawnsley Into the blue. The U.S. has sent aircraft carrier the USS John C. Stennis, along with a host of accompanying ships, into the disputed waters of the South China Sea Navy officials said Thursday. The carrier is being joined by two destroyers, two cruisers, and the 7th Fleet command … …read more Source:...