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Video: Kyiv Police Tear Down Saakashvili Protest Camp, 20 Injured.
Image by Zhivora Olexiy Ukraine on Friday urged schools to close and factories to cut production after Russia refused to restart natural gas deliveries, while residents shivered as the country strained to save on gas supplies. In Shocking Turn Of Events, Russia Now Owes Ukraine Billions Russian gas deliveries to…
Putin States He Would Like To Have Prevented Collapse Of Soviet Union.
Screenshot RFERL Slovakia has been plunged into political crisis by the killing of an investigative journalist who wrote about links between the government and Italy’s notorious ‘Ndrangheta mafia group, reports RFERL. Eastern Europe, and former Soviet countries, have struggled to shake off the corrupt influence of the former Soviet Union….
In Shocking Turn Of Events, Russia Now Owes Ukraine Billions.
Image by Credo Action The U.S. House of Representatives released a report yesterday which shows the Russian troll farms used social media to incite Left-wing activists against the U.S. fossil fuel industry, prompting demonstrations against pipeline projects and fracking efforts. Russia is a hydrocarbon powerhouse, a nation which Senator John…
Image by Elke Wetzig The Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, passed the first reading of a draft law to establish an anti-corrution court, mandated by the IMF for further release of financial aid. Only a few billion of the $17.5 billion package approved for Ukraine after the Crimean incident and…