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Published time: 28 Dec, 2017 03:06 Tel Aviv has condemned “malicious” anti-Semitic graffiti daubed on Jewish institutions in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, and has urged Kiev to take “decisive measures” against neo-Nazis. “We are gravely concerned by these expressions of anti-Semitism, and expect Ukraine’s government to take decisive measures to eliminate anti-Semitic phenomena and […]
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said he doesn’t see either Turkey or Ukraine joining the 28-member bloc anytime soon. Gabriel envisages other forms of cooperation instead, modelled on what he called a “smart” Brexit deal. Speaking to the German press on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Gabriel said he cannot imagine Turkey and Ukraine as members of […]
Published time: 26 Dec, 2017 09:36 Moscow has warned that American and Canadian lethal weapons intended for Ukraine may miss their target. Ukraine is so corrupt that Kiev cannot guarantee the weapons won’t end up in the wrong hands, a senior Russian diplomat said. First Canada and then the US announced that they had decided […]
A Stockholm arbitration hearing has validated the most important points of Gazprom’s delivery contract with Ukraine, the deputy chair of Russia’s gas giant has said, and Kiev will have to pay despite claiming it has won the case. “The main provisions of the contract were recognized as valid” by the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm […]
Published time: 19 Dec, 2017 09:34 The banking system of Ukraine set a world record for bad loans this year, according to a central bank spokesman. The country’s financial sector has found itself in the worst situation ever, said the official. Read more “We have set an unpleasant and expensive record for the economy. Ukraine […]
Newly unsealed documents show that Paul Manafort had an integral role in editing an op-ed written by a pro-Russia Ukrainian operative. The discovery prompted special counsel Robert Mueller to pull out of a bail agreement his office reached with Manafort’s lawyers. The court filings show that Manafort did more than just read the draft op-ed […]
REUTERS/Gleb Garanich Several hundred protesters and opposition politician Mikheil Saakashvili are marching down the streets of the Ukrainian capital to the parliament to demand the president’s resignation. The former president of Georgia, who has emerged as an anti-corruption campaigner in Ukraine, earlier broke free from custody several hours after he was detained. Hundreds of protesters […]
Soldado Kowalisidi had fought for LGBT rights in Siberia since 2012, and had come out as a transgender man in 2015, when last year he finally sought shelter in Ukraine, convinced he couldn’t continue his work in Russia anymore. Russia had just passed legislation widely known as the “Yarovaya package” — twin anti-terrorism laws that […]
President Donald Trump’s top advisers are closer now to achieving what seemed unthinkable at the start of his presidency: Shipping millions of dollars of US weapons to Ukraine’s embattled military. The president, whose former campaign associates nixed language supporting arms to Ukraine in the GOP’s party platform in 2016, was never going to be an […]
The UNGA Third Committee overwhelmingly passed a Russian-introduced resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism. The US did not break with its annual tradition of saying ‘no’ during the symbolic vote. Ukraine also voted against. The Moscow-drafted resolution against whitewashing and attempting to glorify Nazi ideology was approved by a majority in the United Nations […]
