Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)
Ukraine pins hopes on a new-look parliament
The collective disgust at the violence and the scale of the disgraced leader’s venality, which became apparent as Ukrainians discovered his comically pharaonic private residence, fostered a mood of national unity. Belying his tame appearance, Arseniy Yatsenyuk — the bespectacled prime minister and Popular Front party leader — has become the...
AP Interview: Russia’s Navalny vows to fight Putin
MOSCOW (AP) — Alexei Navalny is in bare feet, dressed in blue jeans and a checkered shirt, as he opens the door to his apartment in a drab Soviet-era block. […] he wears a monitoring bracelet on his ankle and is not allowed to step over the threshold of his own home — under house arrest in the small apartment he shares with his wife and two...
At Berlin Wall, Kerry warns against Cold War redux
BERLIN (AP) — Surrounded by relics of the Cold War, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his German counterpart warned Wednesday against a return to the bitter divide between east and west over the current crisis in Ukraine. Ahead of next month’s 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Kerry and Steinmeier met German high-school...
Submarine hunt exposes Swedish readiness gap
Sweden, which is not a NATO member, has downsized its military significantly since the Iron Curtain fell and has scrapped some of the resources it used to hunt for Soviet submarines, including helicopters equipped with sonar and anti-submarine weapons. Sweden built up an anti-submarine force after a Soviet sub with nuclear weapons ran aground off...
Poland’s Sikorski under fire over Russia interview
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A former Polish foreign minister has come under fire from the prime minister and political opponents for giving a U.S. magazine interview in which he allegedly said Russia’s president offered Poland the opportunity to jointly carve up Ukraine in 2008. …read more Source: San Francisco...
News of the day from across the globe, Oct. 21
1Ukraine fighting: A report by Ukraine’s parliament revealed Monday that more than 300 soldiers were killed during a weeks-long battle that marked a crushing setback in the military campaign to root out pro-Russia separatist forces in the east. Iranian authorities have arrested four people suspected of throwing acid on women, according to a...
Powerful explosion rocks rebel-held Ukrainian city
Ukraine and pro-Russian separatist rebels agreed to a truce early last month and although fighting diminished, exchanges of artillery fire take place daily. The U.N. estimates more than 300 people have been killed since the cease-fire was announced. …read more Source: San Francisco...
Ukraine says Russia has agreed to supply gas
President Petro Poroshenko said in a television interview late Saturday that an agreement has been reached for Russia to supply Ukraine with gas through March at a price of $385 per 1,000 cubic meters. …read more Source: San Francisco...
Putin seeks deal on Ukraine
MILAN (AP) — Russian leader Vladimir Putin is meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and key Western leaders in an attempt to negotiate a full end to hostilities in Ukraine that could ease sanctions against Russia. …read more Source: San Francisco...
Putin to meet with Western leaders on Ukraine
MILAN (AP) — Russian leader Vladimir Putin is mounting a diplomatic blitz on the sidelines of a summit of European and Asian leaders in a bid to escape the worst crisis with the West since the Cold War. Putin will discuss Ukraine during a working breakfast with Ukrainian leader President Petro Poroshenko and key European leaders on the sidelines...
