U.S. and Russia agree to keep talking after meeting on Ukraine
The top U.S. and Russian diplomats made no major breakthrough at talks on Ukraine on Friday but agreed to keep talking to try to resolve a crisis...
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Top diplomats for U.S., Russia meet in Geneva on soaring Ukraine tensions
The top diplomats of Russia and the United States were to meet in Switzerland on Friday to discuss soaring tensions over Ukraine after a flurry of meetings...
Russia, U.S. discuss Moscow’s demand for security guarantees
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Karen Donfried held talks in Moscow on Wednesday to discuss a Russian demand...
All kinds of threatening gestures, but Russia will not invade Ukraine
I must admit that I googled the plot of the 1997 film ‘Wag the Dog’ before starting to write this. It’s a dark comedy about...
‘Investing in Ukraine: What you need to know, potential risks and new opportunities’
By SergiyBenedysiuk Attracting long-term foreign investment is one of the key priorities of Ukraine’s economic policy during the years of Ukraine’s independence. However, an overall...
Biden says putting together comprehensive plan in Russia-Ukraine crisis
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday he is putting together a set of comprehensive initiatives aimed at making it difficult for Russian President Vladimir...
Ukraine urges NATO to prepare sanctions to deter Russian attack
Ukraine urged NATO on Wednesday to prepare economic sanctions on Russia to deter a possible invasion by tens of thousands of Russian troops concentrated within...
Remembering Holomodor: famine genocide in the Ukraine
Ruslan Nimchynskyi writes of the horrors committed by the Soviet Union and their millions of victims Every year on the fourth Saturday of November...
Ukraine at 30: Standing with dignity
By Ruslan Nimchynskyi ON August 24, Ukraine marks the 30th anniversary of its Independence, in honour of the adoption of the Act of Declaration of...
Archbishop Kyprianos’ canonisation delayed due to Church rift
Archbishop Kyprianos was not canonised on July 9, the anniversary of his execution at the hand of the Ottomans in 1821, because the Holy Synod...
England expects but Shevchenko’s Ukraine believe
This time England expects. Whereas Gareth Southgate’s team went into their last-16 tie with Germany amid relentless reminders of historic failures against their old rivals and the...
Russian military build-up near Ukraine numbers more than 100,000 troops, EU says
More than 100,000 Russian troops have massed on Ukraine’s border and in annexed Crimea, the office of the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell said after...
Russia and Ukraine to expel a diplomat each as tensions simmer
Russia accused a Ukrainian diplomat on Saturday of trying to obtain classified information and ordered him to leave the country by April 22, prompting a...
New ambassadors from China, Egypt and Ukraine present credentials
President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday urged China, Ukraine and Egypt to exert pressure on Turkey to alter its intransigent stance on Cyprus and in the...
Limassol’s Athanasios furious with Archbishop of decision on Ukraine Church
Limassol Bishop Athanasios said Monday he was disappointed with the decision taken by the head of the Church of Cyprus Archbishop Chrysostomos to recognise the...
Ukrainian surrogates leave babies in north amid Covid confusion
Fourteen Ukrainian surrogate mothers left babies behind in the north as agencies from Ukraine set up shop in legal grey-areas and shoddy, make-shift hospitals, international...
Shots heard as bus passengers taken hostage in western Ukraine (update)
A man who said he was armed with weapons and explosives seized control of a bus in the western Ukrainian city of Lutsk on Tuesday...
Three die, hundreds evacuated in Ukraine flooding
Torrential rains in Ukraine have killed three people, forced hundreds from their homes and cut off villages in western regions, authorities said on Wednesday. While...
One killed as Ukraine accuses Russian forces of heavy shelling in east
One Ukrainian soldier was killed and four injured on Tuesday as Kiev accused Russian forces of using heavy shelling to try to breach Ukrainian lines...
Technical problems behind deadly crash of Boeing jet in Iran
A Ukrainian airliner fell to earth in a fireball shortly after take-off from Tehran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board in a crash...
