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US stance on Open Skies Treaty non-constructive: Russian foreign ministry
Date: 2014-04-21 18:56:55 GMT - Russia - World - SN:122 - ID:680641
MOSCOW, April 21 (MENA) - The US stance on Open Skies Treaty is 'highly non-constructive', Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Monday commenting on the US decision to cancel an observation flight over Russia. On April 14, a ....
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Kerry urges Russia to help implement Ukraine agreement
Date: 2014-04-21 18:36:40 GMT - USA - World - SN:119 - ID:680644
WASHINGTON, April 21 (MENA) - US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Russia on Monday to help implement an international agreement on the crisis in Ukraine, the Voice of America quoted US State Department as saying on Monday. Kerry spoke with ....
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Foreign Affairs Mag: Three ways to split Ukraine
Date: 2014-04-21 18:14:31 GMT - USA - World - SN:117 - ID:680596
WASHINGTON, April 21 (MENA) – There are still three possible futures for Ukraine, Foreign Affairs Magazine said. On April 17, as foreign ministers from the United States, the European Union, Russia, and Ukraine struck a deal to ease mounting ....
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Gunmen detain 3 journalists in eastern Ukraine
Date: 2014-04-21 18:07:59 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:116 - ID:680599
KIEV, April 21 (MENA) - Three foreign journalists were temporarily detained by pro-Russia insurgents in city in eastern Ukraine, ABC News reported on Monday. One Belarusian and two Italian journalists were stopped on Monday by gunmen as they ....
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Capital flight from Russia expected to reach $70-80B
Date: 2014-04-21 17:23:29 GMT - Russia - World - SN:107 - ID:680550
MOSCOW, April 21 (MENA) - The Russian Finance Ministry has forecast this year’s capital outflow from Russia as reaching $70-80 billion, the director of long-term planning at the ministry said Monday, RIA Novosti reported. “We are certain that it ....
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WSJ: Companies map contingency plans as Ukraine crisis escalates
Date: 2014-04-21 17:22:53 GMT - USA - World - SN:106 - ID:680538
WASHINGTON, April 21 (MENA) – While Ukraine's gross domestic product is roughly the size of Alabama's, the economic spillover effect of rising political tension is hard to gauge. More than 100 public companies have mentioned the crisis on conference ....
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Yanukovych demands return of Ukraine's military forces to permanent bases
Date: 2014-04-21 16:58:55 GMT - Russia - World - SN:102 - ID:680511
MOSCOW, April 21 (MENA) – Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych has addressed on Monday the current Kiev authorities in written regarding the sharply deteriorating situation in the country’s south-east. The document published Monday by the ....
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Britain says Syria elections only designed to sustain Assad’s dictatorship
Date: 2014-04-21 16:57:20 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:101 - ID:680485
LONDON, April 21 (MENA) – British Foreign Office Minister Mark Simmonds said Syrian presidential elections, conducted against backdrop of regime attacks and in a climate of fear, will have no credibility. Commenting on the announcement today by ....
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OSCE monitoring mission arrives in Ukrainian city of Sloviansk
Date: 2014-04-21 15:35:41 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:98 - ID:680397
KIEV, April 21 (MENA) - A monitoring mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has arrived in the town of Sloviansk in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region to investigate a shooting incident that took place there on the ....
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Lavrov calls for resuming Syria talks
Date: 2014-04-21 15:34:58 GMT - Russia - World - SN:97 - ID:680391
MOSCOW, April 21 (MENA) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had a telephone conversation with the Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for the Syrian Crisis, Lakhdar Brahimi, on Monday, to discuss the Syrian settlement, ....
