Posted by seumasach on March 27, 2014
RINF(Source: Voice of Russia)
26th March, 2014
The EU sanctions against Russia would cripple the European economy instead, Euro MP Pino Arlacchi. “The position of the European Union should be different from the US position. Europe should not insist on the extension of sanctions. These sanctions are unwise. In fact, they are directed against us,” he said.
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Posted by seumasach on March 27, 2014
OBAMA: I’m More Worried About A Nuke Hitting Manhattan Than I Am About Russia
25th March, 2014
During a press conference in the Netherlands with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Tuesday, President Barack Obama said he was more worried about a nuclear bomb going off in Manhattan than Russia’s recent actions in Ukraine.
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Posted by seumasach on March 27, 2014
27th March, 2014
MOSCOW, March 27 (RIA Novosti) – Ukraine has extradited to Russia a Chechen man suspected of assaulting local residents in the North Caucasus republic, the Prosecutor General’s Office said Thursday.
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Posted by seumasach on March 27, 2014
27th March, 2014
The West has not yet reached a stage where it will be ready to impose economic sanctions on Russia, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, stressing that she hopes for a political solution to the stalemate over Ukraine crisis.
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Posted by seumasach on March 26, 2014
“The United States has changed its attitude; that much is clear. In the discussion between Secretary of State Kerry and Foreign Minister Lavrov, they recognised the legitimacy of Russia’s security interests in the region”.
25th March, 2014
There is almost nothing left that can stop Russian annexation of Crimea. ‘The train has left the station’, says Günter Verheugen. Still, the former Enlargement Commissioner calls for dialogue and warns against escalation and an economic war.
Günter Verheugen is a former EU commissioner in charge of enlargement policy. He was responding to questions from Ewad König, editor-in-chief of EurActiv.de.
The interview below was translated from German. See original text here.
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Posted by seumasach on March 26, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
26th March, 2014
The G7 countries — United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan — have decided that the G8 format will remain in a state of suspense and they will keep Russia outside the tent and looking in wistfully unless and until it behaved nicely. This is one major element in the Hague Declaration, which strongly condemned Russia for its annexation of Crimea and warned that there would be “significant consequences”.
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Posted by seumasach on March 26, 2014
“It seems to me that John Kerry has at least has displayed the understanding of the need to ‘push’ the fulfillment of the arrangement that were laid down in the February 21 agreement,” the minister added.
“It would be perhaps right if this really happens and those who currently head the Verkhovna Rada and who formed the cabinet would pay the most serious attention to this. Meanwhile, far from all the things that had been agreed upon have been fulfilled: illegal armed groups have not been disarmed, all seized buildings have not been vacated and squares have not been fully unblocked.”
25th March, 2014
Ukraine was in the focus of discussion at the nuclear security summit in The Hague on Monday. The situation in the country and Russia’s actions regarding Crimea were considered, in particular, at meetings of G7 leaders and talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with US Secretary of State John Kerry. The Russian minister also held the first meeting with Ukrainian Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Deshchytsia.
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Posted by seumasach on March 26, 2014
Parliament of Czech Republic speaks out against introduction of sanctions against Russia
26th March, 2014
The Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic did not support the proposal in which instructions were given to the government to promote, within the EU framework, the introduction of economic sanctions against Russia, RIA Novosti said with a reference to the local media.
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Posted by seumasach on March 25, 2014
With the dismissal of Tenuykh of the Svoboda Party from the defense ministry, it appears that the purge of the far-right radicals has begun
Parliament names new defense minister as Turchynov calls Russia’s takeover of Crimea ‘our general tragedy’
25th March, 2014
In a day of accusations and recriminations over Ukraine’s inability to repel Russia militarily from the Crimean peninsula, parliament on March 25 voted to replace its defense minister.
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Posted by seumasach on March 25, 2014
25th March, 2014
BRUSSELS – The G7 club of wealthy nations has cancelled a summit with Russia over its annexation of Crimea, but emerging economies have protested against its exclusion from a G20 meeting.
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Posted by seumasach on March 25, 2014
Kerry gave Lavrov, “an update on the steps the government of Ukraine has continued to take on constitutional reform, to counter extremists and to prepare for elections on May 25th,” Harf noted.
24th March, 2014
WASHINGTON, March 24 (KUNA) — Following an hour long meeting at the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, US Secretary of State John Kerry met one-on-one with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Kerry pushed for Lavrov to pursue a dialogue with the Ukrainian government, US Department of State Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf told reporters here Monday.
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