Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
U.S. Vice President To Address Ukrainian Legislature
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will address Ukraine’s parliament next week as part of a two-day visit to the country. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Poroshenko Says Ukraine To Keep Defense Spending High
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says his government will spend five percent of gross domestic product on defense and security next year, in a bid to strengthen the army in its fight against pro-Russian separatists in the east. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia Warns Of Penalties On Kyiv After Failed Trade Talks
Russia is likely to penalize Ukrainian imports starting in January after negotiators failed to agree on ways to address Moscow’s objections to Kyiv’s free-trade agreement with the European Union. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Poroshenko Pardons Russian In Prisoner Exchange
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has pardoned a Russian citizen arrested in eastern Ukraine and exchanged him for a Ukrainian serviceman held by Russia-backed separatists. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Putin: Turkey Shot Down Russian Jet to Protect Islamic State Oil
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Turkey of shooting down a Russian warplane in order to protect the Islamic State’s lucrative oil trade, the latest in a series of inflammatory statements made by Moscow against Ankara. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Obama, Putin Discuss Syria, Ukraine At Climate Summit
Barack Obama has urged Vladimir Putin to ratchet down tensions with Turkey as the U.S. and Russian presidents met on the sidelines of the Paris climate summit. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Monitors Say Elections In Two Eastern Ukraine Cities Held Properly
A nongovernmental group of international election monitors says delayed local elections on November 29 were conducted in accordance with laws and regulations in the eastern Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Krasnoarmiisk. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Kyiv Says Agreement With Protesters Needed To Restore Crimea’s Power
Ukraine’s Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn say some electricity deliveries to Crimea can be resumed but that the timing must be agreed with Crimean Tatar activists who are conducting protests along the transmission lines in Ukraine’s Kherson region, just north of the Crimean Peninsula. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe /...
One Week On, Crimean Blackout Continues
A drive around Simferopol on the evening of November 29 shows the Crimean capital still swathed in darkness, after electricity supplies from Ukraine were disrupted. (RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian Nationalists March On Oligarch’s Office
Riot police prevented a crowd of angry Ukrainian nationalists breaking into the offices of Rinat Akhmetov, one of the country’s most powerful oligarchs. The protesters accuse him of being in league with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
