Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Australian FM: MH17 Suspects To Be Known In Months And Prosecuted
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says the people responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine two years ago could be known by the end of 2016 and will be prosecuted. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Moscow Summons Dutch Ambassador Over MH17 Investigation
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the Netherlands’ ambassador in Moscow over the Dutch-led international investigation which concluded that a Russian military missile fired from separatist-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine downed the MH17 civilian passenger jetliner in 2014. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe /...
U.K. Ambassador To Ukraine Concerned About Mejlis Ban
British Ambassador to Ukraine Judith Gough has expressed concerns over a ruling by Russia’s Supreme Court that upheld a ban on the Mejlis, the self-governing body of Crimean Tatars in Ukraine’s occupied territory of Crimea. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Dutch Government Rebukes Russian Ambassador Over MH17 Remarks
The Dutch Foreign Ministry has summoned Russia’s ambassador in The Hague for a diplomatic rebuke after Moscow made remarks critical of the criminal investigation into the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Group Ransacks Moscow Exhibition Of Photos From Eastern Ukraine
Dozens of people, some of them in military and traditional Cossack uniforms, have destroyed photos taken from a conflict zone in eastern Ukraine at an exhibition in Moscow. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia, Ukraine Object To New Bulgarian Candidate For Top UN Post
Russia and Ukraine were among several countries that raised questions about Bulgaria’s nomination of European Union commissioner Kristalina Georgieva to become the next United Nations secretary-general. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Merkel, Putin Speak About Ukraine Conflict, Syria
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to stabilize a fragile cease-fire in Ukraine and do all he can to improve what Merkel called a “catastrophic humanitarian situation” in Syria. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
As Russian Officials Dig In On MH17, Critics Decry ‘Politics Of Denial’
A series of denials by Russian officials and state-media allegations of bias and foul play present a view that is starkly discrepant with international criminal investigators’ findings, announced this week, over the downing of a Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine in 2014. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Who Shot Down MH17? The View From Moscow And Kyiv
Reaction from Moscow and Kyiv, as an international probe says that Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down with a Russian missile system, brought from Russia into a separatist-held part of Ukraine. What’s the view on the street? …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia’s Supreme Court Upholds Ban On Crimean Tatars’ Mejlis
Russia’s Supreme Court has upheld a decision by a Moscow-backed Crimean court to ban the Mejlis, the self-governing body of Crimean Tatars in the occupied Ukrainian territory. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
