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Nuland claims Russia feeling the effects of sanctions following annexation of Crimea
With ongoing fighting and separatism in Ukraine posing new challenges for global security, officials and experts gathered in Slovakia at a security conference on Wednesday to discuss how to stop the unrest and make the world a safer...
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Kerry comments after meeting Lavrov to discuss Ukraine crisis
Washington and the international community won't recognise the outcome of Sunday's referendum in Crimea on seceding from Ukraine, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday after six hours of talks with Russia's foreign minister in...
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ONLY ON AP Ukraine's ousted president calls annexation of Crimea a "tragedy"
Ukraine's ousted president Viktor Yanukovych said on Wednesday that the annexation of Crimea was a tragedy and he would have done everything possible to prevent it, had he remained in power.
Yanukovych also told The Associated Press that...
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UN chief holds news conference with Ukrainian president
As tensions remained high over Crimea's status, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, warned both Ukraine and Russia on Friday, to stay away from "unnecessarily high rhetoric" which could make the crisis in Crimea more...
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Ukrainian cabinet meets, defence minister resigns from office
Lawmakers in Ukraine accepted the resignation of the country's defence minister on Tuesday as thousands of troops began withdrawing from the Crimean Peninsula, now controlled by Russia.
Colonel General Mikhail Kovalyov was elected by...
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US VP Biden reiterates importance of NATO; condemns Russia's actions in Ukraine
US Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Romania to reassure the NATO member of US commitment to the region amid unrest in neighbouring Ukraine after Russia's annexation of Crimea.
Biden called on European allies to stand firm in...
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Parliament chairman announces Poroshenko as elected president, FM comment on missing OSCE monitors
Parliament Chairman Oleksandr Turchynov confirmed on Thursday that billionaire candy magnate Petro Poroshenko had been elected Ukraine's new president.
Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsya, meanwhile, held talks in Kiev with his...
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German foreign ministry says Crimean referendum unacceptable; Russian parliament welcomes result
Germany was the latest country to reject the results of the controversial referendum in Crimea on Monday, declaring it illegal and unacceptable.
German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said that "Germany condemns" Crimea's vote to...
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Miners hold protest march to call for peaceful resolution to conflict in east
Hundreds of miners marched in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday calling for both sides of the civil unrest in the country to come to an agreement.
The miners marched through Donetsk and held a rally in the city centre, demanding that the...
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Crimeans react to ongoing Ukrainian elections
Residents of Crimea, who only a few months ago were part of Ukraine, did not participate in the country's parliamentary elections on Sunday.
The peninsula of Crimea, located on the Black Sea, was annexed by Russia after the revolution in...
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Merkel says more sanctions coming for Russia, G8 to be suspended
Russia faced further sanctions from the European Union on Thursday over its annexation of the Crimean Peninsula as tensions in the region remained high despite the release of a Ukrainian naval commander.
In an address to the German...
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Pro Russian protesters gather to commemorate death of Armenian protester
People in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk gathered on Tuesday to pay
tribute to an Armenian man reportedly shot dead in the nearby city of
Slovyansk.
They laid flowers at a makeshift memorial to Ruben Avasenyan, who died...
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Armed men believed to be pro-Russian militia take Ukrainian ship Ternopil
A group of men, believed to be pro-Russian militia were seen taking over a Ukraine Black Sea Fleet ship called the Ternopil on Thursday, in Sevastopol's Kurinya Bay in Crimea.
The crew of another ship nearby were said to be holding out...
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NATO says it has seen no significant signs of major pullback from border with Ukraine
NATO's top military commander said on Wednesday the alliance would welcome the withdrawal of Russian troops from a Russian region bordering Ukraine, but that it had seen no "major movement" so far.
US Air Force General Philip Breedlove,...
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Kerry on visa restrictions, referendum on Crimea secession, meets Renzi
On the sidelines of an international meeting in Rome on Libya the US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Thursday.
Kerry commented on the situation in Ukraine at a news conference following the...
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Look ahead to Wednesday's talks between Ukraine, Russia, EU and US
A prominent political analyst in Moscow said on Tuesday that substantial progress on the Ukraine crisis is unlikely to made at upcoming multilateral talks in Geneva.
Maria Lipman, of the Carnegie Moscow Center, said that despite the...
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen Answers Question On Ukraine
Anders Fogh Rasmussen Answers Question On Ukraine
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Russian Soldiers Outside Government Building Simferopol
Russian Soldiers Outside Government Building Simferopol
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen Answers Question On Ukraine
Anders Fogh Rasmussen Answers Question On Ukraine
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen Answers Question On Ukraine
Anders Fogh Rasmussen Answers Question On Ukraine
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Lavrov meets Lieberman; bites on Ukraine, Syria
Russian officials struck a defiant note on Monday after Western leaders threatened to further punish Moscow for escalated fighting in eastern Ukraine over the weekend.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blamed Kiev for the uptick in...
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The Crimean region voted on Sunday about whether to demand greater autonomy from Ukraine or split off and seek to join Russia, in a referendum that has been condemned as illegal by the United States and European countries. (March 16)
Residents of Ukraine's Crimea region are voting in a contentious referendum on whether to split off and seek annexation by Russia.
One of the first to vote was the head of Crimea's unrecognised Russian-backed government Sergei Aksyonov....
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Parliament votes to approve sanctions on people and firms which backed Crimea annexation
The Ukrainian parliament on Thursday approved a bill allowing sanctions to be imposed on people and firms which backed the annexation of Crimea.
Most of the companies and individuals are Russian.
The bill will be valid once it is...
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Intense shelling on border town with Russia as fighting continues between separatists and government forces
Towering columns of smoke rose on Tuesday from outside a city in Ukraine's far southeast after what residents said was a heavy artillery barrage.
It was the second straight day that attacks were reported in the vicinity of Novoazovsk,...