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    Ukraine: Winter of Gas Pain?
    Sep11

    Ukraine: Winter of Gas Pain?

    It’s a long wait – but the food does come. Emergency stocks of cooking oil, flour and tea make things a bit better for these refugees from the fighting in Donetsk and Luhansk. Life in Ukraine is hard – it could be harder if Moscow puts a stranglehold on gas imports from European neighbours. Like Poland, for whom Russia has...

    U.S. military excercise with Russia canceled because of Ukraine
    Sep11

    U.S. military excercise with Russia canceled because of Ukraine

    Russia’s aggressive assault on Ukraine has led to the broken partnership of a mock exercise with U.S. and Canadian military to practice escorting hijacked airliners. …read more Source: New York Daily...

    EU imposing new sanctions on Russia
    Sep11

    EU imposing new sanctions on Russia

    Moscow calls the move an ‘unfriendly step’ and says it will respond with like measures. …read more Source: USA...

    European Union Hits Russia With New Economic Sanctions Over Ukraine
    Sep11

    European Union Hits Russia With New Economic Sanctions Over Ukraine

    BRUSSELS—The European Union has decided to slap new economic sanctions on Russia — including ones targeting the country’s vital oil industry — for what it sees as Moscow’s meddling in eastern Ukraine. The sanctions will further curb access to European capital markets for Russian banks and firms, limit exports of certain...

    NATO: 1,000 Russian Troops Remain in Ukraine
    Sep11

    NATO: 1,000 Russian Troops Remain in Ukraine

    NATO says around 1,000 Russian troops remain inside Ukraine – a day after Ukraine’s president reported that most of the Russian forces assisting separatists there had returned home. President Petro Poroshenko said Wednesday that 70 percent of the Russian troops in Ukraine had crossed back over the border, raising hopes the cease-fire...

    EU slaps new economic sanctions on Russia
    Sep11

    EU slaps new economic sanctions on Russia

    BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has decided to slap new economic sanctions on Russia — including ones targeting the country’s vital oil industry — for what it sees as Moscow’s meddling in e… …read more Source: The Bismarck...

    EU agrees to impose new sanctions on Russia on Friday
    Sep11

    EU agrees to impose new sanctions on Russia on Friday

    Moscow calls the move an ‘unfriendly step’ and says it will respond with like measures. …read more Source: USA...

    European Union Pushes Forward With Tougher Sanctions on Russia
    Sep11

    European Union Pushes Forward With Tougher Sanctions on Russia

    The measures, which will take effect on Friday, are meant to punish the country for its role in promoting separatist warfare in eastern Ukraine, officials said. …read more Source: The New York...

    EU to Implement New Russia Sanctions
    Sep11

    EU to Implement New Russia Sanctions

    The European Union has agreed to implement its new package of sanctions on Russia Friday, raising pressure on Moscow despite signs that a cease-fire is taking hold in Ukraine. …read more Source: The Wall Street...

    Poland’s PM Tusk’s Government Officially Dissolves
    Sep11

    Poland’s PM Tusk’s Government Officially Dissolves

    WARSAW, Poland—Poland’s president accepted the resignation of Prime minister Donald Tusk’s pro-market government on Thursday, bringing an end to seven years of governance that have been marked by unprecedented political stability in Poland. Tusk resigned after being picked recently as the next president of the European Council, a role...