Russian foreign minister calls for lifting of economic blockade of eastern Ukraine
Lavrov, speaking at an Organization for Security and Cooperation meeting on Thursday, said that the blockade by the
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Vice president to travel to Kyiv Sunday
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Ukraine Sunday, hoping to reassure Kyiv that it will not be abandoned as the West seeks to enlist Russia in the fight against the Islamic State group, AFP reported.
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Investigation into death of boy, 3, after polio vaccination
The investigators into the death of a three-year-old boy from the city of Bila Tserkva, the Kyiv region, after polio vaccination have not released their preliminary versions. Police are waiting for the results of forensic analysis.
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Mourinho: I was disappointed with Costa, but we made up
Many expected it to be fairly elementary from there, but Jose Mourinho’s side would have a hard time trying to find cracks in the 10-man Tel-Aviv, who forced a decent close-range save from Asmir Begovic in their search for an equaliser.
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Nobel winner slams Russia’s trial of Ukrainian pilot
MINSK – Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, this year’s Nobel Literature Prize winner, on Wednesday slammed Russia’s “political trial” of Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko and compared her to Joan of Arc.
Savchenko, a military helicopter pilot, faces up to 20 years in jail in Russia for the murder of two Russian television journalists in war-torn eastern Ukraine last year in a trial that has caused outrage in Kyiv and the West. In Ukraine, Savchenko is feted as a national heroine and Western leaders and rights groups have called for her release. She has denied any guilt at her high-profile trial in southern Russia, which continued Wednesday, and says Russia smuggled her across its border. Alexievich — who won the Nobel prize in October for her verbatim accounts of World War II and the Chernobyl disaster — went to the Ukrainian embassy in Minsk to hand over a letter to Savchenko and three of her books.
Speaking to Ukraine’s acting ambassador in Belarus, Valery Dzhigun, Alexievich condemned Savchenko’s “political trial,” saying she hoped the Ukrainian officer would be released or handed back to Kyiv in a prisoner swap. “I am so impressed by Nadiya Savchenko. She’s a real soldier,” said Alexievich, who has fiercely criticised President Vladimir Putin’s rule and his intervention in Ukraine.
“She turned out to be a real Ukrainian Joan of Arc. Today, Nadezhda is a symbol of the Ukrainian people,” Alexievich said, using the Russian form of her name. The Nobel prize ceremony will take place on December 10. -
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Crimean Tatars Test Russian Power
KYIV—When the lights went out last week in the Russian-annexed peninsula of Crimea, one group of local residents celebrated: The region’s Crimean Tatar minority.
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