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Lenin’s monument was pulled down in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Region
Lenin’s monument was toppled from the central square of the city Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, in Eastern Ukraine. The monument was removed during the rally ‘Kramatorsk is Ukraine’ where gathered thousands of activists on Thursday, April 16, 2015. This city is famous because of Battle of Kramatorsk (from 12 April until 5 July 2014), the...
Putin ready to work with USA
Russia has key interests in common with the USA and needs to work with it on a common agenda, President Vladimir Putin said. ||| Moscow- Russia has key interests in common with the United States and needs to work with it on a common agenda, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday in a television interview. In his comments to the...
National Security and Defense Council: US military instructors arrive in Ukraine
Kyiv, April 17, 2015. Around 300 paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade of the US Army arrived in Lviv. American instructors will train Ukrainian servicemen. View map in full size Russia-backed militants have shelled the Ukrainian military positions five times with 120-mm mortars and twice with 122-mm artillery. Militants did not use their...
Gen. Petr Pavel, NATO’s Military Committee
Gen. Petr Pavel, new head of NATO’s Military Committee, answers a question during an interview with The Associated Press in Prague, Czech Republic, Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Pavel said that the western military alliance has to convince the public it has the means and will to confront Russia. A Czech general in line for a top NATO post says...
Ukraine wants ICC to probe Crimea crimes
Ukraine wants the International Criminal Court to investigate all alleged war crimes in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said in an interview. ||| The Hague – Ukraine wants the International Criminal Court to investigate all alleged war crimes in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said in an...
Economics 101: A Lesson for Ukraine
Ukraine Can Learn from Baltic States’ Experience with Reforms, says Lithuania’s Ex-Prime Minister As it struggles to fix its economy, Ukraine would do well to study the reforms successfully implemented by three fellow former Soviet republics in the Baltics, Andrius Kubilius, Lithuania’s former Prime Minister said April 16 at the...
US paratroopers to train forces fighting against pro-Russian terrorists in Ukraine
PHOTO: US Army website The US army spokesman Donald Wrenn announced that about 300 soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade will be training three battalions of the National Guard of Ukraine, at the Ukrainian military zone in Yavoriv near the Polish border, Lviv Region, Western Ukraine, for six months: “Soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade...
There are evidences that Russian military forces continue to operate in eastern Ukraine – Marie Harf, the U.S. Department of State
Marie Harf, acting spokesperson of the U.S. Department of State, during the Daily Press Briefing announced Russian military forces continue to operate in Eastern Ukraine, and to violate the Minsk agreements (February 12, 2015): “No amount of propaganda can make true what is not. I think we know as of early April that Russian military...
Body parts found at MH17 crash site
Dutch investigators have recovered human remains at the MH17 plane crash site in Ukraine, the Netherlands announced. ||| Donetsk – Dutch investigators have recovered more body parts at the MH17 plane crash site in Ukraine after searching a location that was previously inaccessible, the Netherlands announced on Thursday.All 298 passengers...
Is the concept of the Brics conglomerate still valid?
And then there were two. One of the extraordinary features of the global economy over the past year has been the downgrading, you might say demise, of two of the Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). ||| AND then there were two. One of the extraordinary features of the global economy over the past year has been the downgrading,...