Section: U.S. News (USA)
Protests break out in Ukraine over giving regions more power
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Clashes have broken out between police and protesters outside the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev after a controversial vote to give greater powers to separatist regions in the east. …read more Source: U.S....
Leaders discuss possible new Ukraine summit, France says
BERLIN (AP) — The leaders of France, Germany and Russia have spoken by phone and are exploring the possibility of a summit with Ukraine’s president about the conflict in the country’s east. …read more Source: U.S....
Ukraine asks Russia for lower gas prices for winter season
MOSCOW (AP) — Emboldened by a deal with international creditors to write down part of its debt, Ukraine is asking Russia for lower gas prices for the winter season. …read more Source: U.S....
Ukraine reaches debt relief deal with creditors
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine has reached a crucial deal with its international bondholders that will help prop up its government finances and keep the struggling country from defaulting on its debt. …read more Source: U.S....
A look at recent politically tainted trials in Russia
MOSCOW (AP) — The guilty verdict Tuesday for Crimean filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in a Russian maximum-security prison for an alleged terror conspiracy, follows a plethora of recent Russian trials that are widely seen as warnings to society not to question its Kremlin rulers. …read more Source: U.S....
Ukrainian filmmaker sentenced to 20 years by Russian court
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) — A Russian court has convicted a Ukrainian filmmaker of conspiracy to commit terror attacks and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. …read more Source: U.S....
Ukraine vows to increase troops to fend off rebel attacks
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president vowed to increase troop numbers to fend off attacks by Russia-backed separatist rebels and warned his countrymen that there is still the threat of a “large-scale invasion,” in an impassioned speech to mark Independence Day on Monday. …read more Source: U.S....
Russian court orders Ukrainian pilot tried in border town
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Friday rejected a defense plea to move a high-profile trial of a Ukrainian officer to Moscow. …read more Source: U.S....
Russians ask for 23-year sentence for Crimean filmmaker
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian prosecutors are asking a court to send a Ukrainian filmmaker to prison for 23 years on charges of conspiracy to commit terrorist attacks. …read more Source: U.S....
Moscow urges Europe to get Ukraine to comply with truce
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pushed Wednesday for European powers to get Ukraine to comply with a truce in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: U.S....
