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Ukrainian Presidential Election 2014: PM Yatsenyuk says separatists will not derail national vote
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- Ukrainian Presidential Election 2014: PM Yatsenyuk says separatists will not derail national vote
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- 12 years ago
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- With less than a week to go before presidential elections Ukraine's acting Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has declared that any attempt to wreck the vote is doomed to fail.
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- Communist Party Facing Ukraine Ban: Turchynov accuses communists of separatist insurgency role
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- 12 years ago
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- Ukrainian President Oleksander Turchynov has accused the Communist Party of being involved in separatist unrest in eastern Ukraine and has called on the Justice Ministry to ban the party.
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- Balkan Flooding: Death toll continues to rise as Serbia battles heaviest rainfall in 120 years
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- 12 years ago
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- Serbia has been bracing itself on May 19 for another flood wave from the river Sava, swollen by the heaviest rains since records began 120 years ago. At least 37 people have drowned or been killed by landslides, primarily in Serbia and Bosnia, as waters submerged towns and swept away roads and bridges. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced and swathes of agricultural land devastated.
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- Ukraine's Lawless Wild East: Turchynov says East Ukraine now practically devoid of reliable police
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- 12 years ago
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- Ukraine's acting President Oleksander Turchynov has admitted that eastern regions of the country have effectively been left with no police or security services.
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- Putin orders Russian army back to bases: Russian troops remain poised close to Ukrainian border
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- 12 years ago
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- Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops stationed near Ukraine's border to withdraw back to their bases marking a potentially significant de-escalation of the crisis between the two former Soviet countries
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- Fake news on Kremlin TV: Russian media accused of broadcasting false atrocity propaganda
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- The Russian mass media has once again been found to be fabricating news on the crisis in Ukraine.
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- Russians rush for US dollars: Kremlin invasion of Ukraine leads to ruble currency slump
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Russians are gobbling-up dollars as the ruble looks increasingly vunerable to growing pressure amidst icy relations between the Kremlin and the West over Ukraine.
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- Ukraine Honors Victims of Soviet Terror: Ukrainians remember millions murdered during Stalin era
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- 12 years ago
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- Ukraine's acting president and prime minister laid flowers at a memorial to the victims of political repression on Sunday May 18. The ceremony was held at the Bykivnia Graves where thousands of victims of Soviet terror were buried in mass graves during the rule of Josef Stalin.
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- Mladic War Crimes Trial: Former Bosnian-Serb army chief Ratko Mladic faces life imprisonment
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- 12 years ago
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- The trial of former Bosnian-Serb army chief Ratko Mladic, accused of genocide, murder, acts of terror, and other crimes against humanity during the 1992-95 Bosnian War has begun at the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
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- German businesses resist Kremlin sanctions push: Germans oppose punishing Russia over Ukraine
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- 12 years ago
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- Germany's biggest companies are increasing their efforts to stop the country's leader Angela Merkel from imposing new and tougher economic sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine crisis.
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- Bayern Munich players celebrate cup win: Bayern triumphed in German Cup over Borussia Dortmund
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- After securing their 10th domestic double by winning the German Cup on May 17 Bayern Munich players and coach Pep Guardiola were invited to celebrate their victory at a reception in Berlin until the early hours of the morning.
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- Russian Invasion Threat: Putin orders Russian troops back from Ukrainian border regions
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- 12 years ago
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- Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops stationed near Ukraine's border to withdraw back to their bases marking a potentially significant de-escalation of the crisis between the two former Soviet countries.
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- East Ukraine Separatist Insurgency: Heavy fighting continues around Slovyansk in Donetsk Oblast
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Heavy overnight fighting on outskirts of Slovyansk leaves many 'terrorists' dead says Ukrainian army.
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- Desperate Separatists: Russian commander in East Ukraine complains over lack of Donetsk volunteers
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- 12 years ago
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- The leader of one of the main Kremlin-backed rebel based in Slovyansk in eastern Ukraine has called on women to join his fighting squad in a sign of weak support for separatist militants. Looking exasperated in a video posted online, Igor Strelkov, who heads the insurgent Donbas self-defence force, admitted that he doesn't have enough men to fight and urged women to bolster the ranks of his militant group.
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- Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev: Crimea will survive Russian occupation and return to Ukraine
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- 12 years ago
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- Thousands of Crimean Tatars held a march in Simferopol to mark the 70th anniversary of their deportation from the Black Sea Peninsula, defying a ban on public rallies by Crimea's new Russian-backed authorities.
Large crowds gather each year in Crimea to commemorate the tragedy, when hundreds of thousands of Tatars were forcibly expelled to Central Asia, many of them dying along the way. Several thousand Crimean Tatars despite this year's ban, chanting slogans against Vladimir Putin as Russian military helicopters circled overhead.
Mustafa Dzhemilev, a 70-year-old former dissident and human rights activist who has led Tatars in Crimea for decades, attended ceremonies in Kyiv. Border police earlier this month turned him away when he tried to cross back into Crimea.
Mustafa Dzhemilev, Crimean Tatar leader
"At the moment the square in Simferopol, where traditionally all the annual rallies took place with the participation of official lea...
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- Kremlin Energy Imperialism: Offshore oil and gas opportunities behind Russian seizure of Crimea
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- 12 years ago
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- The true agenda of Russia's annexation of Crimea appears to have little to do with the reclamation of Russian territory and more to do with extending the grasp of its main economic resource, oil. With the oil and gas rush that has seen an increase of activity and interest in the black sea, Russia now finds itself in control of a maritime addition that is three times the size of the Crimean landmass.
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- Ukraine National Unity Talks: Leaders call on rebel groups to disarm at Kharkiv roundtable meeting
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- 12 years ago
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- Ukrainian leaders and international mediators held roundtable discussions in Kharkiv with various members of Ukrainian society, including business leaders, members of the clergy, and lawmakers to discuss the crisis in the east of the country.
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- Atletico Madrid La Liga Triumph: Barca and Real Madrid fail to win league for first time in decade
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Atletico Madrid fans crowded Madrid's Neptuno square as the team secured their first La Liga title in 18 years fighting from behind to secure a 1-1 draw at Barcelona.
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- Soviet Nostalgia in Putin's Russia: New generation of Pioneers goes back to the USSR on Red Square
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- 12 years ago
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- In a ceremony on Red Square, Hundreds of children from Russia, Belarus, and other former Soviet states have been inducted into the Communist Young Pioneers. Similar to the Western Scouts, the organisation which was founded in 1922, was also known as the Vladimir Lenin All- Union Pioneer Organisation, and recruited children between the ages of 10 and 15. There motto "always prepared" reflects there origins in the scouts movement whose motto is "Be prepared."
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- Crimean Tatars Defy Kremlin Rally Ban: Thousands mark deportation anniversary in Simferopol
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- 12 years ago
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- Thousands of Crimean Tatars have defied a ban imposed by the Kremlin-backed government on the in Simferopol marking the 70th anniversary of their deportation in by Stalin in 1944. The usual mass mourning ceremonies in the Crimean capital had been banned by amid fears of clashes. The government there last week also announced it was banning all public gatherings until June 6. Ukrainians and Tatars, meanwhile, joined a march through central Kyiv to mark the tragedy. The event this year was overshadowed by continued Russian aggression in eastern and southern Ukraine. Crimean Tatars opposed Russia's invasion of Crimea in February and annexation in March. Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev leader said during ceremonies in Kyiv that Crimea would be returned to Ukraine.
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- Kremlin Agent Laments Lack of Separatists: Russian admits little support for anti-Ukraine insurgency
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Russian insurgent leader Igor Girkin, the suspected Russian special forces agent known as "Strelkov, who is the self-proclaimed Defense Minister of the unrecognized Donetsk People's Republic, has urged the women of Donbas to join his army of insurgents. Strelkov made the appeal in a rambling 8-minute clip posted to the Internet. He complained about the unwillingness of young Donbas residents to join his campaign against the Ukrainian government, which is currently carrying out an Anti-Terrorism Operation in the east of the country. Strelkov said his forces consist of men older than 40. He lamented the fact that not even a thousand men from the region can be found to risk their lives fighting for the insurgency Donbas. Despite widespread distrust of interim Ukrainian government, the population has not embraced the Kremlin-backed separatist insurgency. Polls show a clear majority in Ukraine's eastern and southern regions support national unity.
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- Balkans hit by devastating floods: fatalities in Bosnia as torrential downpour causes flooding
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- 12 years ago
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- Rescue efforts have continued throughout the Balkans, leaving 11 dead in Bosnia, and hundreds evacuated in Croatia. The region has endured three months worth of rainfall in just three days.
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- Hungarian Minority Rights in Ukraine: PM Orban repeats autonomy calls for Ukrainian Hungarians
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- 12 years ago
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- Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has repeated his call for Ukraine to grant autonomy to ethnic Hungarians living in the country, even after he drew criticism for similar comments from Western leaders.
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- Crimean Tatar Deportation Anniversary: Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars mark tragedy in Kyiv
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars have marched in Ukraine's capital to commemorate the brutal deportation 70 years ago of Crimea's entire population of Tatars. Many Tatars later returned to Crimea. They strongly supported the new Ukrainian government and opposed Russia's annexation of the peninsula in March. While the Kyiv rally proceeded without incident, the new Kremlin-backed leaders of Crimea banned Sunday's main rally in the Crimean capital, Simferopol. Some Tatars instead gathered near a mosque on the city outskirts.
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- Donbas Battalion Combats Separatist Insurgency: Pro-Ukraine militia sets up camp south of Donetsk
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- A pro-Ukrainian militia has set up camp in Velyka Novoselka, a small town about 150 kilometres south of Donetsk. The volunteer fighters have pledged to defend the small town and surrounding area people from Kremlin-backed insurgents, who began seizing government buildings in northern Donetsk and Luhansk regions in March following Russia's invasion of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.
Surveys indicate that the vast majority of Ukrainians, including most residents of eastern and southern Ukraine, oppose efforts to impose self-rule or to join the Russian Federation.
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- Donbas Battalion takes on separatists: patriotic Ukrainian militia sets up camp south of Donetsk
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- A pro-Ukrainian militia over the weekend has moved into Velyka Novoselka, a town located about an hour's drive south of Donetsk. The militants pledged to defend the town and surrounding area of from any pro-Russian aggression and called for volunteers to join them. The group gave few details of their numbers, where they had procured their gear and who was funding them but said members had come from across the country, including Kyiv, Donetsk, Kharkiv and Lugansk regions. One local activist, who identified himself as the new pro-Ukrainian police chief, raised the Ukrainian flag at the main administration building in the town. In a show of pro-Ukrainian patriotism, the men broke into the local office of Party of Regions, the party previously headed by disgraced former President Viktor Yanukovych, removed the party's flags and set them on fire.
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- Russia cracks down on Ukraine's chocolate king: Petro Poroshenko is presidential election favourite
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- 12 years ago
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- Ukrainian billionaire businessman and presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko says he knows he's on the right track politically because Russia has seized the accounts of his chocolate business.Poroshenko owns Roshen, Ukraine's biggest confectionary company which has factories across eastern Europe and in Russia.
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- India Greets New PM Narendra Modi: Indian election was world's largest ever national vote
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Thousands of people packed the streets of New Delhi on Saturday to watch India's next prime minister Narendra Modi drive into the capital after he scored the biggest election victory the country has seen in 30 years. Flag-waving supporters along with dancers and musicians mobbed his motorcade during a triumphant drive from the airport to party headquarters in the centre of town.
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- Battle for Slovyansk: Tense morning following battles with separatist insurgents near brick factory
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Sustained gunfire was heard throughout the night near the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk, the stronghold of Kremlin-backed fighters, following the second round of European-brokered talks held in Kharkiv. By dawn on 18 May, however, the gun battles had appeared to die down.
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- Bayern Munich fans celebrate 2-0 victory over Borussia Dortmund in German Cup Final
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- 12 years ago
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- Bayern Munich fans had to wait longer than expected as two extra-time goals handed their team a 2-0 win over rivals Borussia Dortmund in the German Cup final on Saturday evening (May 17). After the final whistle people started cheering at Munich's traditional beer hall "Augustiner-Keller where several hundred fans had gathered to watch the match. Other fans flocked to Munich's main boulevard "Leopoldstrasse" to celebrate Bayern's win. The victory in Berlin secured Bayern Munich a tenth domestic league and Cup double.
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- Prince Harry in Estonia: British royal thanks Baltic troops for help in NATO-led Afghanistan mission
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- 12 years ago
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- Britain's Prince Harry has paid tribute to Estonia's soldiers on the first day of his trip to the Baltic nation. 5.9
The prince observed a minute's silence at Estonia's Monument of Independence in memory of soldiers who died fighting Russia between 1918 and 1920. A crowd of about 300 Estonians waved British flags to welcome Harry as he arrived at the monument in Tallinn's Old Town dressed in a military ceremonial uniform
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- Crimean Tatar Tragedy: Ukraine marks 70th anniversary of 1944 deportation by Stalinist regime
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Residents of Ukraine's capital Kyiv and Lviv in western Ukraine on 17 May held evening vigils to mark former Soviet ruler Josef Stalin's decision in 1944 to forcibly relocate more than 200,000 Crimean Tatars from the Crimean peninsula.
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- Japan Prepares for Brazil World Cup: Soccer fans in Tokyo write hopeful messages on giant uniform
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Japanese soccer fans wrote words of encouragement across a giant 30 x 30 metre Japan national soccer team jersey on Saturday (May 17).
Adidas, who sponsored the event and made the uniform, is planning to fold, ship and display the 50-kilogramme uniform in Brazil before matches played by the Japanese national team hoping that it will inspire the players before their match.
The uniform, which will travel around Japan, has space for around 5,000 messages.
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- Kremlin Media Fake: Ukrainian UN helicopter footage on Russian TV was actually shot in Africa
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Russian media has shown footage of Ukrainian forces operating in Ukraine's eastern region, battling with separatists and using a United Nations marked helicopter. The problem with the report aired by Russia's flagship international media channel Russia Today is that the footage is from two years ago and it's not even filmed on the same continent, the video was made in Africa when Ukrainian peacekeepers were on a mission, deep in the Congo.
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- OSCE Roundtable Talks in Kharkiv: Ukrainian national unity discussion moves to East Ukraine
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Ukrainian leaders gathered for their second set of national unity talks in Kharkiv on 17 Saturday. German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger moderated the discussions, with interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and former presidents Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma among those in attendance.
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- US slow to help Ukraine: Americans accused of failing to respond to Ukrainian pleas for basic aid
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- An article appearing on May 16 in The Daily Beasthas criticized the Obama adminitration for dragging its feet on Ukraine's request for assistance following Russia's annexation of Crimea and Kremlin-backed attempts to escalate tension in the country's eastern and souther regions.
Ukraine's wish list, which asked for boots, uniforms, body armour, and spare tires, went unfulfilled for more than two months according to the article, which refers to the original detailed request, which included other non-lethal equipment, such as night vision devices, Ukraine's armed forces made to the United States and NATO.
According to the article, the US failure to assist Ukraine's military explains why Kyiv has been outgunned by better-equipped pro-Russian insurgents. US and European officials say Kremlin-backed groups in Ukraine are supported and paid by Russian intelligence officers and special operations forces.
To date, the Obama administration has sent meal...
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- Crimea Tatar Rally Ban: Kremlin-installed officials target Ukrainian peninsula's indigenous minority
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- 12 years ago
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- Crimea's de-facto authorities have banned all rallies until June 6, preventing the region's minority Muslim Tatars from commemorating 70 years since Stalin deported their population. The Kremlin-appointed Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov said the decree was issued to prevent "provocations by extremists", in relation to the current insurgent activity in Ukraine's south-east. Yet most see the ban as an attempt by the illegitimate authorities to clampdown on any critics of its regime, appointed after Russia annexed Crimea in March.
The annual rally is a day of mourning for the Tatar minority, who make up 12% of the peninsula's population of two million. Josef Stalin began deporting their community on May 18, 1944 after accusing them of sympathizing with Nazi Germany. An estimated 200,000 deportees died on the journey to Central Asia or Eastern Russia. The community, which slowly returned during the Soviet Union's demise in the late 1980's, now fears they could be repre...
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- Poland and Ukraine looking forward to 25 May EU parliament vote and Ukrainian presidential election
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- 12 years ago
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- Poland has a special interest in Ukraine: the two countries share a border, their languages are similar, and large parts of western Ukraine were Polish before World War Two.
The European Parliament as well as the Ukrainian government will be chosen next week: from May 22 -- 25 EU countries will vote to choose their representatives and Ukrainians will vote on May 25th to elect a new president and government.
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- East Ukraine Separatists Branded 'Terrorists': Luhansk and Donetsk insurgents named as terror groups
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- 12 years ago
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- Ukraine's Prosecutor General's office has classified the self-declared People's Republic of Donetsk and People's Republic of as terrorist organizations. In a statement issued jointly with the Security Service of Ukraine, officials said they had initiated criminal proceedings against so-called Donetsk and Luhansk separatist leaders under Article 258 of the Criminal Code. Government investigators will also check the involvement of parliamentarians, deputies of local councils, officials, and other persons in the creation of criminal organizations in eastern and southern Ukraine. Top state prosecutors said leaders of so-called people's republics claim to be acting in the interest of people in some regions, protecting them, but that their actions told a very different story. Lawmen said the purpose of for creating the paramilitary organizations is to deliberately propagate violence, seize hostages, carry out subversive activity, as well as to intimidate and assassinate citizens.
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- Crimean Tatar Deportation Anniversary: Dzhemilev dreaming of end to Russian occupation of Crimea
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- 12 years ago
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- The spiritual leader of Crimea's Muslim Tatar community has said that he hopes his people will one day be able to celebrate liberation from Russia. Mustafa Dzhemilev spoke at a special ceremony in Kyiv to commemorate 70 years since the Soviets deported the Tatar population from Crimea to Central Asia. Tatar leaders on 17 May cancelled plans to mark the anniversary in Simferopol.
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- UN slams Kremlin over Crimean Tatars: Report cites Russian human rights abuses in annexed Crimea
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- 12 years ago
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- A new report by United Nations monitors has slammed Kremlin-backed militants for serious human rights violations in east Ukraine including killings, torture, abductions and even cases of sexual assault. The anti-Kyiv separatists, according to the paper, have been responsible for more than 100 cases of unlawful detention and are still suspected of holding 49 people whose current whereabouts are unknown. Russian authorities have also come under fire for the deteriorating human rights situation in the recently-annexed Crimean Peninsula. UN monitors highlighted reports of 'serious problems' of harassment and abuse of the 300,000 strong Tatar community. During a briefing for diplomats and reporters in Geneva, Ukraine's ambassador to the UN talked about the thousands of people that had been displaced following Russia's annexation of Crimea.
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- Battle for Slovyansk: Anti-terror operation continues near pro-Russian Donetsk separatist stronghold
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- More fighting has taken place near the eastern Donetsk city of Slovyansk in Donetsk province during the early hours of 17 May. Kremlin-backed insurgents have refused to hand over their weapons and surrender. The fighters currently control most government buildings, including town hall and the police headquarters, in the city center.
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- EU Rules Out Russia Energy Sanctions: Gazprom head Miller in Berlin for energy talks on 19 May
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- 12 years ago
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- European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger has again stated that Russia is Europe's main trading partner in natural gas and that there should be no sanctions against Moscow's energy sector over the crisis in Ukraine. Putin has urged European leaders in recent months to do more to help Ukraine through its economic crisis and to resolve the standoff over gas supplies, repeating a threat to cut exports if Kyiv fails to pay in advance for June deliveries. Putin first wrote to EU leaders last month, suggesting three-way talks between Russia, Ukraine and the European Union. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso wrote back accepting the offer, and a first round of talks took place early this month. Oettinger on May 19 is scheduled to meet Russia's energy minister and the head of Gazprom in Berlin to set a date for further talks.
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- OSCE Roundtable Talks Continue: Attempts to resolve Ukraine separatist crisis move to Kharkiv
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- 12 years ago
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- A second round of negotiations aimed at defusing the Ukraine crisis has been scheduled for Kharkiv on May 17. Held under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the talks are loosely modeled after the 1989 "roundtable talks" that paved the way for a peaceful transition from Communism across Eastern and Central Europe. But the prospects for the current roundtable talks for Ukraine look more bleak, according to Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, who on May 15 in Kyiv told journalists that only elected representatives of the people of eastern Ukraine should participate in the talks. Bildt said the international community should not create the impression that you can get influence by a gun, adding that Europe would implement harsher sanctions on Russia if the Kremlin continues to meddle in Ukraine's internal affairs.
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- Ukraine Information War in Western Media: UK's Guardian regurgitates Kremlin atrocity propaganda
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Despite the fact that his story was widely exposed as a complete fabrication, Britain's Guardian newspaper has published an op-ed, quoting a Jewish doctor from Odesa who was supposedly prevented by Ukrainian nationalists from helping victims in May 2nd's deadly trade union building fire.
Veteran Australian journalist John Pilger retold the account of fictional doctor Igor Rozovskiy. Rozovskiy allegedly rushed to the scene to help; but was denied entry by radicals who said he and fellow Jews would be beaten, then burnt alive. The story, which racked up over 11,000 Facebook shares in one day, is actually thought to be part of a Kremlin social media trolling campaign, aimed at spreading lies and propaganda about the crisis in Ukraine.
The doctor's harrowing eyewitness story struck a chord with users of social network VK. It was shared thousands of times and subsequently translated into English, German and even Bulgarian. His story also correlated with Russia's c...
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- Russian occupation fueling lawlessness: UN highlights human rights abuses in Crimea and East Ukraine
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- According to a new report released by the United Nations, human rights violations have escalated in eastern Ukraine and serious problems are emerging in Crimea. Armed groups in east Ukraine, according to the paper, have been responsible for more than 100 cases of unlawful detention and are still suspected of holding 49 people whose current whereabouts are unknown. UN monitors say they also have concerns for the security of candidates in Ukraine's upcoming May 25 presidential election.
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- Ukraine's Soft Porn Separatist: Erotic photos of self-styled Luhansk Foreign Minister emerge online
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- 12 years ago
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- In the latest public relations setback for east Ukraine's pro-Russia separatists, semi-pornographic photos of a Luhansk People's Republic minister have emerged online, threatening to further damage the image of a breakaway movement which is already struggling to overcome negative perceptions of its leadership.
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- Russians Launch Anti-Crimean Tatar Crackdown: Ban on rallies prevents Tatars marking deportation
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- The acting head of the Republic of Crimea Sergey Aksonov has banned mass demonstrations on the Black Sea peninsula until June 6, citing security concerns amid on-going unrest in east Ukraine.
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- Ukraine United: Rival Dynamo and Shakhtar fans march for national unity ahead of Ukrainian cup final
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Thousands of rival Ukrainian football fans have come together to show their support for a united Ukraine and their opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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- France Arming Putin: Paris refuses to stop warship sale to Russia despite Kremlin Ukraine invasion
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Protesters in Kyiv have been demonstrating outside the French embassy following reports that the USD 1.66 billion warships deal between the Russian and French government had not been overturned.
