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Cuba, US face bumpy road ahead
Cuba and the United States just made history. Now comes the hard part. ||| Panama City – Cuba and the United States just made history. Now comes the hard part. In the first meeting of its kind in nearly 60 years, President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro sat down together for over an hour on Saturday at a regional summit in...
Rubio to launch Republican presidential bid
Marco Rubio will portray himself as the Republican most ready to handle threat to America in a chaotic world when he announces his presidential candidacy. ||| Miami/ Washington – US Senator Marco Rubio will make a muscular foreign policy a focal point when he announces his presidential candidacy on Monday, portraying himself as the...
More than 500 documents tied to MH17 disaster are released by Dutch Government
The Dutch government has published the 575 documents regarding the flight MH17 which flew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur and was downed near the city Donetsk in Ukraine. All 298 people aboard the plane were killed. Dutch release hundreds of #emails tied to #MH17 http://t.co/u3kpLrgH6m — NL Times (@NL_Times) April 8, 2015 According to Dick Schoof,...
SBU detected several pro-Russian terrorists’ arms caches
As reports the Press Center of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) near Ukrainian city Zhytomyr in a wood was discovered a cache of arms and ammunition, camouflaged as the trash. The SBU officers discovered two RPG-22 grenade launchers, a Dragunov sniper rifle with full magazine, about forty RGD-5 and F-1 grenades, three full Kalashnikov...
Canada to send troops to Ukraine in “non-combat role”
According to a government source, Canada will send its troops to Ukraine in the coming months. As it is underlined Canadian soldiers will not be engaged in military operations. This was reported by Canadian Media Channel CTV News: Canada to send troops to Ukraine in non-combat role http://t.co/l7HMukOiER — Mercedes Stephenson (@CTVMercedes)...
US Senator Rob Portman declares he will personally fight for military assistance to Ukraine
“I will personally fight for this military assistance,” said Senator Rob Portman during the press briefing at Ukraine Crisis Media Center at April, 9. Senator Portman expressed his support for the initiative to extend sanctions aimed at countering the Russian aggression in Ukraine, which is going to be reviewed by the end of June – early July....
How the KGB archives will be opened and information declassified
On April 9, 2015, The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Ukrainian Parliament) approved a government bill No. 2540 opening up access to the archives of repressive bodies of the Soviet Union totalitarian regime of 1917-1991. Materials will be published not only on the requests of concerned citizens, but the responsibilities of the Institute of National...
Poroshenko Goes Hunting for Oligarchs
Ukraine won an important battle in the war against the oligarchs with the removal of Dnipropetrovsk Governor Ihor Kolomoyskyi last week. But Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the Ukrainian parliament are just getting started. On April 7 the government challenged billionaire Rinat Akhmetov’s grip on energy companies. Some...
Can Gazprom Really Cut Out Ukrainian Transit Post-South Stream?
Despite an unceremonious end to the controversial South Stream mega-pipeline, Russia remains outspoken and determined in its effort to carve Ukraine entirely out of its European natural gas deliveries which accounted for 62 billion cubic meters (bcm) of Gazprom’s European-bound exports in 2014. Formally announced in 2007, South Stream had...
Parliament recognized UPA and UNR as fighters for independence of Ukraine
On April 09, 2015, Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) passed a law of recognizing organizations that fought for the independence of Ukraine in the XX century such as UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) and UNR (Ukrainian People’s Republic), the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (USS), Hetmanate (Ukrainian State),...