Ukraine News
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Kiev -
A business card brandished by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine as proof that a deadly attack on their checkpoint was the work of ultra-nationalists quickly became an object of derision on the Internet.
In the Media
by Germain Moyon (AFP)
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Donetsk -
US Vice President Joe Biden was to begin a two-day visit to Ukraine on Monday amid Russian "outrage" over a deadly weekend shootout in the rebel east that shattered a fragile Easter truce.
In the Media
by Marc Burleigh in Kiev and Bertrand de Saisset in Slavyansk (AFP)
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Kievpetrovsky Port -
Resurrection and rebellion -- in Ukraine's separatist east this weekend, those two themes collided as pro-Kremlin militants briefly subjugated their political passions to religious ones in a celebration of Easter.
In the Media
by Bertrand de Saisset (AFP)
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Donetsk -
A deadly gunfight in a town in restive east Ukraine on Sunday shattered a fragile Easter truce, with Russia declaring it was "outraged" at the return to violence in the crisis-hit former Soviet republic.
In the Media
by Bertrand De Saisset (AFP)
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The United States expressed "surprise" over the fact that Israel did not support last months U.N. vote supporting Ukraine's sovereign claim over Crimea.
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The newspaper's edition was set, ready to print, when the assailants came at 2 o'clock in the morning, Molotov cocktails in hand."We heard someone beating violently against our windows. They ripped off the shutters and broke the glass.
In the Media
by Nicolas Miletitch (AFP)
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Moscow -
President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said nothing should impede the normalisation of relations between Russia and the West, after ties hit a post-Cold War low due to the standoff over Ukraine.
In the Media
by AFP
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Donetsk -
The expertly armed, masked men in matching camouflage stripped of all insignia are tough, taciturn and tactically devastating. And according to President Vladimir Putin, they are not -- absolutely, categorically not -- elite Russian special forces.
In the Media
by Germain Moyon and Nicolas Miletitch (AFP)
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Moscow -
The four-way agreement on Ukraine thrashed out in Geneva is the first sign of progress between Russia and the West in a months-long standoff, but a litany of problems remain unresolved, analysts said.
In the Media
by Stuart Williams and Olga Rotenberg (AFP)
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Kramatorsk -
High-flying diplomacy in Geneva might have forged an accord meant to soothe the war fever threatening Ukraine.But the pro-Moscow separatist insurgents on the ground in eastern Ukraine, where they occupy 10 towns, are having none of it.
In the Media
by Bertrand De Saisset (AFP)
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Ukrainian Parliament adopted the bill No.9073 on the principles of state language policy in the first reading. Several parallel rallies of supporters and opponents of this bill were held in downtown Kyiv.
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