Russia retaliates over new EU-Ukraine free trade zone
The European Union and Ukraine have fully launched a historic free trade deal, marking another key stage in the country’s pivot away from Russia and prompting immediate retaliation from Moscow.
The European Union and Ukraine have fully launched a historic free trade deal, marking another key stage in the country’s pivot away from Russia and prompting immediate retaliation from Moscow.
Russia is unlikely to sign a contract with Ukraine on power supply to Crimea if Kyiv insists on a clause stipulating that the peninsula belongs to Ukraine, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Jan. 1.
An overwhelming majority of Crimea residents prefer to experience temporary problems with power supply rather than sign a power supply contract with Kyiv if it stipulates that the peninsula is part of Ukraine, a public opinion survey has shown.
MOSCOW Jan 1 Russia will file a lawsuit against
Ukraine after Kyiv failed to repay a $3 billion Eurobond and $75
million of interest by Dec. 31, the Russian finance ministry
said late on Thursday.
On December 30, the leaders of the so-called Normandy Quartet on Ukrainian Reconciliation spoke by phone, agreeing to extend the Minsk agreements on the settlement of the conflict in Donbass, which expired on December 31, for another year.
Russia says it’s suing Ukraine for defaulting on a $3 billion Eurobond debt owed to Moscow.
Russia and Ukraine have spent most of their post-Soviet history as Siamese twins, but for the last two years they’ve been undergoing political and economic separation surgery. It will probably be more or less complete in 2016, and though both twins are in for a grim period, the weaker one, Ukraine, has the better prospects in some ways.
Moscow: Russia will file a lawsuit against Ukraine after Kyiv failed to repay a $3 billion Eurobond and $75 million of interest by 31 December, the Russian finance ministry said late on Thursday.