Russia’s finance minister says Russia is on a course to lose more than $100 billion due to Western sanctions and falling oil prices. Anton Siluanov said Monday at an economic forum in Moscow that Russia could lose as much as $40 billion per year because of Western sanctions. The United States and the European Union have imposed several...

Nov24

Russia to lose some $40 bn a year due to sanctions: minister

Monday, November 24 , 2014 - 12:03 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

Moscow (AFP) – Russia is set to lose around $40 billion (32 billion euros) per year due to Western sanctions over the Ukraine conflict, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Monday.”We are losing around $40 billion per year due to geopolitical sanctions and we are losing some $90 to $100 billion per year due to oil prices falling 30...

Nov24

Three More Ukrainian Soldiers Killed: Kiev Military

Monday, November 24 , 2014 - 11:49 (EEST) Section: International Business Times (USA)

(Reuters) – Three Ukrainian servicemen have been killed in the past 24 hours in fighting with pro-Russian separatists in the east despite a ceasefire in place since early September, a Ukrainian military spokesman said on Monday. Ukraine lost four other serviceman on Saturday, and the death toll among Ukrainian soldiers since the ceasefire...

Nov24

Global Conflicts Create Record Numbers Missing

Monday, November 24 , 2014 - 10:19 (EEST) Section: Newsweek (USA)

The last time the two young Crimean Tatar men were seen alive, was on the evening of September 27th this year. Eighteen year-old Islyam Dzhepparov and his cousin Dzhevdet Islyamov, 23, had gone to visit an uncle in a small village near Belogorsk in the Crimea. As they were walking home at 7pm, they were stopped on the road by two unknown men in...

Nov24

From Holodomor to Maidan: How the Kremlin ‘Brotherly Love’ Cost Ukraine Millions of Lives

Monday, November 24 , 2014 - 4:33 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

The problem with history is twofold: it tends to repeat itself, yet we never learn from it. On Friday, Ukrainians have gathered on Maidan (the Independence Square in the center of Kyiv) to honor the Heavenly Brigade who gave up their lives defending our dignity. On Sunday, we commemorated the greatest tragedy suffered by the Ukrainian people...

Putin says his Crimea annexation was strategic and Russia won’t be isolated

Monday, November 24 , 2014 - 2:48 (EEST) Section: The Washington Post (USA)

MOSCOW – Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula was a “strategic decision,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published Sunday, brushing aside a suggestion that tough retaliatory sanctions may have come as a surprise. Read full article >> …read more Source: The Washington...

Nov23

Last Parts of MH-17 Wreckage Cleared From E. Ukraine

Sunday, November 23 , 2014 - 23:11 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

Dutch air crash investigators have completed their recovery of the wreckage of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that was downed over rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine four months ago. Workers sent the last pieces of the airliner on a train Sunday from the area controlled by pro-Russian separatists to the Ukrainian government-held city of...

Nov23

Putin Says He Won’t Be Russia’s President For Life

Sunday, November 23 , 2014 - 20:25 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

MOSCOW (AP) — Vladimir Putin has said he won’t remain Russia’s president for life and will step down in line with the constitution no later than 2024, according to an interview with a Russian news agency released Sunday. Staying in office beyond that would be “detrimental for the country and I don’t need this,” he...