In the Ukrainian conflict, which has killed thousands of people, both sides consistently violate the rules of war, which includes indiscriminate strikes and the use of densely populated areas for attacks, according to the annual report of the human rights organization Amnesty International. Every year Amnesty ...
The US State Department warned Ukraine against resuming its nuclear program, otherwise it will receive the status of a rogue state. This was stated by Deputy Head of the State Department for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gotmuller in an interview with European Pravda. “If this path continues (production...
The head of the European Council Donald Tusk said that the leaders of the EU member states are discussing the possibility of introducing new sanctions against Russia. “I am in consultation with European Union leaders on the next steps,” he said. Tusk added that the EU has done everything possible so that the new Minsk ...
Last year, Kazakhstanis experienced several serious events, for example, the weakening of the national currency tenge and joining the Eurasian Economic Union. All this was reflected in their level of life satisfaction. Social polls show that the residents of Kazakhstan are most worried about unemployment (35% of respondents), difficult ...
"The United States condemns the ongoing clashes in the Debaltseve area and other cities in eastern Ukraine that violate the ceasefire agreement," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a daily briefing, noting that, according to Ukrainian authorities, pro-Russian separatists violated the agreement more than 250 times ...
Once again, Russia grossly violated international law by sending an illegal humanitarian convoy to the territory of the Ukrainian Donbass. It consisted of more than 30 trucks with unknown contents. The cars were able to penetrate the part of the border that was not protected by the Ukrainian border guards. Russia, for its part, claims that in the trucks ...
The unemployment rate in Ukraine in January rose to 2% from 1,9% at the beginning of 2015, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine said in a statement. According to the report, in absolute figures the number of unemployed in Ukraine in January amounted to 525 thousand people, of ...
The Washington Post on Thursday condemned the "weakness of the West" in Ukraine, arguing that US President Barack Obama "passed the Ukrainian crisis to Germany with predictably poor results." In an editorial, the newspaper writes that "another victory" of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine ...
The White House said on Wednesday that it is "quite clear" that Russia and the separatists in eastern Ukraine are not honoring the terms of the ceasefire agreement signed last week in Minsk. The US administration warned that in such a situation “they risk facing more ...
Lithuania is calling on other states to help arm the Ukrainian army, which is fighting Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said Wednesday. The minister also said that Lithuania, whenever possible, supports the Ukrainian army, but he specifically ...