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New Ukraine Disrupts Old Ukraine
There’s good reason for guarded optimism in the new Ukraine. President Petro Poroshenko and the parliament brought the country’s most powerful oligarch to heel in March 2015 and the justice department has set its sights on the richest oligarchs. …read more Source: Atlantic...
Russia will officially monitor the users of social networks
Russian federal executive body that monitors all media in Russian Federation, Roskomnadzor, has the right to check the personal correspondence of users of Russian social networks such as “Odnoklassniki”, “VKontakte”, email & IM Agent Mail.ru, ICQ, and blogging platforms. The list of monitoring includes also foreign...
Violence escalates in east Ukraine
One Ukrainian serviceman was killed and six were wounded in separatist territories in the past 24 hours, the Kiev military said. ||| Kiev – One Ukrainian serviceman was killed and six were wounded in separatist territories in the past 24 hours, the Kiev military said on Monday, accusing rebels of using heavy weapons that were meant to have...
Monuments of Soviet leaders were pulled down in Kharkiv
The video is released by the Kharkiv Crisis Info Centre. On Saturday, April 11, 2015, in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv a group of masked men pulled down monuments of Soviet leaders Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Russian Nikolai Rudnev and Bolshevik leader Yakov Sverdlo. Activists who are said to be part of an anti-Russia group stated that “community...
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...
National Security and Defense Council: Ukrainian Armed Forces do not incur any casualties in the last 24 hours
Kyiv, April 11, 2015. Pro-Russian militants continue armed provocations against the Ukrainian forces; most of them have occurred in the Donetsk sector. Militants have fired from machine guns, automatic grenade launchers and 120-mm mortars in the vicinity of Opytne and Avdiivka. They have also mortared Pisky twice. Ukrainian Armed Forces did not...
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)...