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Armenian protesters defy police
Protesters defied police, ignoring a call to disperse and digging in for a new day of protests against electricity price hikes. ||| Yerevan – Hundreds of protesters defied police on Wednesday in the Armenian capital, ignoring a call to disperse and digging in for a new day of protests against electricity price hikes and police violence.On...
Here’s How to Crowdsource Ukrainian Language and Culture
On a scorching Saturday afternoon in the Pechersk district of Kyiv, a group of five young people take refuge in a cool alcove hidden at the back of the Ivan Honchar Museum for a free Ukrainian class. Together, for ninety minutes, they discuss that week’s subject, studentstvo (“student life”), learning new Ukrainian words to...
Putin ‘saved my life’- Yanukovych
Former Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych has thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for “saving my life” during the bloody demonstrations that led to his ouster. …read more Source:...
EU extends Russia economic sanctions
EU foreign ministers extended economic sanctions on Russia, keeping up pressure on Moscow to help resolve the Ukraine conflict. ||| Luxembourg – European Union foreign ministers extended economic sanctions on Russia until Jan. 31 on Monday, keeping up pressure on Moscow to help resolve the Ukraine conflict. Russia described the move as a...
It’s Hard to Take Russian Propaganda Seriously. But We Must.
Three Russian television stations interviewed Andrei Petkov from a hospital bed in Nikolayev, Ukraine, in April 2014. Rossia 1 described him, with a bandage on his nose, as an ordinary citizen attacked by neo-Nazis and nationalists; NTV named him a German spy for a secret European organization; and the National Independent News of Crimea...
Putin blames West over Ukraine
Russian president says political settlement that gives substantial autonomy to Ukraine’s Russian-speaking east and amnesty to rebel fighters will resolve crisis ||| St Petersburg, Russia – It was two minutes before midnight when Russian President Vladimir Putin finally entered the meeting room in the Boris Yeltsin Presidential...
US Senator John McCain has arrived to Ukraine with the official delegation
U.S. Senator, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, John McCain, has arrived to Ukraine with the official delegation to show America’s support to Ukraine. Good to be in #Ukraine w/ @SenTomCotton & @SenJohnBarrasso – standing united with a free #Ukraine https://t.co/IAMjyybjC5 — John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain)...
Russia to send for terrorists in Eastern Ukraine heavy weapons, tanks and artillery system “Acacia” – ATO Press Center
ATO Press Center informs that Russian terrorists move to the active use of artillery tactics. “The situation in the ATO area is difficult, but controlled by Ukrainian forces. There are signs of deterioration of the situation because illegal pro-Russian armed gangs intensified shelling at the positions of Ukrainian troops during the last...
High-level talks on Greece planned
European leaders will hold an emergency summit next week to try to avert a Greek default. ||| Athens/Luxembourg – Euro zone leaders will hold an emergency summit on Monday to try to avert a Greek default after bank withdrawals accelerated and government revenue slumped as Athens and its international creditors remain deadlocked over a debt...
Police declared that killers of pro-Russian journalist Buzina were arrested
The Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced on his Facebook page that on Thursday, June 18, 2015, that Pro-Russian journalist Oles Buzyna’s killers were detained: “Buzyna’s killers have been solved,” wrote Arsen Avakov. Pro-Russian journalist and a key witness in a criminal case related to a pro-Russia rally in Kyiv, Oles...