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Senate approves sanctions bill to punish Russia for meddling
The Republican-led Senate voted decisively to punish Moscow for interfering in the 2016 election by approving a wide-ranging sanctions package that targets key sectors of Russia's economy and individuals who carried out cyber attacks.
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Rex Tillerson says sanctions on Russia will remain until Vladimir Putin hands back Crimea to Ukraine
The United States will not lift sanctions on Russia until President Vladimir Putin hands Crimea back to Ukraine, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said late Sunday. During a phone call with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Tillerson said the sanctions—which have crippled Russia’s economy and pushed down the value of the ruble—will “ remain in place until Russia returns control of the Crimean peninsula to Ukraine.”
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Russia is launching ‘unprecedented’ army drills in Crimea
Russia has launched unprecedented land, air and sea drills in annexed Crimea in a coordinated training exercise involving thousands of troops. The action is billed as significant by the military as it is said to be the first time in the history of the Russian army that three large Airborne units have been “simultaneously alerted”. The commander in charge of the exercise, Colonel-General Andrei Serdyukov, said the drill was prompted by an "increased terrorist threat” in the region.
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Trump expects Russia to return Crimea to Ukraine
US President Donald Trump has reportedly told Moscow he expects Russia to return the Crimean peninsula to Ukraine, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Tuesday. Addressing the resignation of Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn following reports that he discussed American sanctions against Russia with the country's ambassador before Trump was sworn in, Spicer said that Russia had “seized" Crimea from Ukraine under the Administration of former President Barack Obama...
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U.S. Ambassador To UN Says No Lifting Of Russia Sanctions Until Crimea Returned
The new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has expressed "strong condemnation of Russia's actions" in eastern Ukraine and warned that Ukraine-related sanctions against Russia will not be lifted until Crimea is returned to Kyiv. "Crimea is a part of Ukraine. Our Crimea-related sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns control of the peninsula to Ukraine," she said on February 2 in her first public remarks before the Security Council since being sworn into office.
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US senators praise Ukrainian marines, slam Putin
‘I admire the fact that you will fight for your homeland,’ Lindsey Graham tells Ukrainian soldiers.
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Dutch Court Rules Crimean Artifacts on Loan Will Return to Ukraine
For the last few years, a Dutch museum has been stuck between a rock and a hard place. Just after the Allard Pierson Museum debuted a new exhibition featuring hundreds of gold artifacts from the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, Russia annexed the contested region. The land grab drew condemnation from all corners of the international community, but it had the side effect of stranding these artifacts in legal limbo.
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Report: Russia Revives Soviet-Built Military Bases in Crimea
Russia is working to resurrect a number of Soviet-built military facilities in Crimea that were used during the Cold War as a defense against naval attacks, Reuters reported Tuesday. A resident from Crimea’s southern coast who was employed at a base last year said Moscow has begun stationing soldiers in the formerly abandoned bunkers and blocking the roads that lead to the areas.
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Don’t Appease Putin
A weakening of sanctions on Russia might please European populists, and a growing number of business leaders favor a softer approach as well. But when the EU's current sanctions regime expires next month, it should be tightened, not loosened.
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Poland sending 46,000 troops to border with Russia as fears grow over Putin expansionism
The first unit of Polish troops in the newly created national guard could be stationed along the border with the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad as early as this year. Polish defence officials confirmed three brigades would be sent to the country’s north east by the end of 2016. Fears over Russian expansionism have been heightened since the annexation of crimea in 2014.
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Crimea hit by power blackout and Ukraine trade boycott - BBC News
Ukraine suspends trade with Crimea, where a power blackout has caused major disruption.
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Putin and his friend Berlusconi are in trouble over some very expensive wine
Ukrainian prosecutors are preparing criminal charges against a woman who allegedly uncorked a 240-year-old bottle of wine for Vladimir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi. The Russian President and former Italian Prime Minister, said to be firm friends, were on a tour of Crimea when they visited the famous Massandra estate. The pair spent the weekend together on the peninsula, which was annexed by Russia more than a year ago...
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Crimea Is Now Putin's Problem Child
Russian security services are cracking down on alleged corruption in the newly annexed peninsula
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Ukraine conflict: Pro-Russia journalist Oles Buzyna killed
A Ukrainian journalist known for his pro-Russian views has been shot dead in the capital Kiev. Oles Buzyna, 45, was killed by shots fired from a car, Interior Ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko said. Mr Buzyna is the latest in a series of allies of Ukraine's pro-Russian former President, Victor Yanukovych, to die in suspicious circumstances. His killing comes a day after MP Oleg Kalashnikov, who was close to Mr Yanukovych, was shot dead in Kiev.
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The Marlboro Men of Chernivtsi
Where there’s smoke, there’s smuggling. Before the Ukrainian border became a dangerous war zone, it was a profitable bootlegging arena.
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Russian treaty with South Ossetia breaks international law
Russia's new treaty with Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region breaks international law and hampers efforts to strengthen regional security, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday. Stoltenberg said the agreement "violates Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity and blatantly contradicts the principles of international law, OSCE principles and Russia's international commitments.
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This is Crimea a year after its 'return to Russia'
Rallies and concerts kicked off a weeklong celebration marking the one-year anniversary of Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. Supporters on Monday unfurled a massive Russian flag during a large rally in Simferopol, where hundreds gathered waving flags and celebrating in the street. Russia sent troops into Crimea in early 2014. On March 16, Crimeans held a referendum for succession, a move the U.N. and several countries declared illegal.
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China on Ukraine’s sovereignity, making sense out of contradictions | ap
On 15 March, Chinese PM Li Keqiang made some remarks on China’s position on the issue of Ukraine and Crimea. In short: China respects Ukraine’s sovereignity and territorial integrity but takes no position on the status of Crimea. Li told this in a news conference at the end of the annual meeting of parliament.
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Eastern Ukraine Cease-fire Deal Reached
The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France emerged from marathon talks in Belarus Thursday with a cease-fire deal aimed at ending months of fighting that has killed thousands in eastern Ukraine.
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Britain says Russia's Putin acting like "tyrant" over Ukraine
Britain accused Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday of acting like a "tyrant" over Ukraine, but said Kiev's forces could not defeat Russia's army on the battlefield and that only a political solution could end the bloodshed. The comments, by British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, were his toughest yet on Russia and came after he rejected a suggestion that Britain had become an "irrelevance" because it wasn't directly involved in talks with Putin to end the Ukraine crisis.
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