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Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 20, 2015
Russia starts gas supplies to rebel-held east Ukraine
Russia started supplying gas to rebel-held eastern Ukraine on Thursday after Kiev had temporarily suspended deliveries because of damage to the networks from heavy fighting, which is continuing despite a cease-fire.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 27, 2014
Ukrainians vote in election likely to strengthen Poroshenko's mandate
Ukrainians voted Sunday in an election that is likely to install a pro-Western parliament and strengthen President Petro Poroshenko's mandate to end separatist conflict in the east, but may fuel tension with Russia.
WORLD
Sep 26, 2014
Ukrainian prime minister: Russia to halt natural gas so we 'freeze' over winter
The prime minister of the Kiev government accused Russia on Thursday of attempting to freeze Ukraine in the coming winter by using natural gas as a weapon to subjugate the former Soviet Republic.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 12, 2014
Russia sending aid convoy to Ukraine despite Western warnings of invasion pretext
President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia is sending an aid convoy to eastern Ukraine despite urgent Western warnings against using humanitarian help as a pretext for an invasion.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 26, 2014
Ukraine says separatists seize bus carrying OSCE observers
Armed separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slaviansk seized a bus carrying international observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Friday, Ukraine's Interior Ministry said.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 10, 2014
Khodorkovsky seeks a 'different Russia'
On March 9, Russia's most famous political prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky visited Kiev's Maidan Square Sunday and stirred emotions on both sides of social media. (tweets translated and curated by Ekaterina Belskaya).

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