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Ukraine’s Poroshenko promises peace, EU, change in long news conference

September 25, 2014September 25, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

In a live televised news conference on September 25 2014, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko promised Ukraine would apply for European

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Donetsk airport remains epicentre of fighting despite cease-fire

September 23, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Thick plumes of black smoke are rising over the Donetsk airport, controlled by the Ukrainian forces. It’s been burning for

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Ukraine’s Hryvnia’s all-time low reflects population’s panic

September 23, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine’s battered currency, the hrvynia, hit a new all-time low. The fear is that a population panicked by a year

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With war at its doorstep, Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk digs in

September 20, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

On a dusty, pockmarked highway on the southeastern border of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, some 20 scruffy fighters from Ukrainian volunteer battalions

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Azeri gas for Ukraine will remain fiction till 2025

September 20, 2014September 20, 2014 The Kyiv Post energy, Russia, Ukraine

Once parts of the same country driven by communist agenda, Ukraine and Azerbaijan could make a good couple for a

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Business 

Ukrainian banks among riskiest, says S&P rating

September 18, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Standard & Poor’s, a New York-based assessor of credit worthiness, thinks the Ukrainian banking sector is on shaky ground. According

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Europe 

Ukraine’s parliament votes to grant self-rule, amnesty to Donbas separatists

September 16, 2014September 16, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine’s parliament supported on September 16 2014 two draft laws filed by President Petro Poroshenko aimed at temporary settling the

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Ukraine’s Naftogaz says it faces ‘temporary halt’ in gas supplies from Poland

September 11, 2014 The Kyiv Post energy, Poland, Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine’s Naftogaz said it was informed by its Polish partner Gaz System S.A. about a “forced temporary halt of gas

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Will they stop Putin?

September 5, 2014September 5, 2014 The Kyiv Post Nato, Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine was high on the agenda when the NATO summit started in Wales on September 4, with leaders of the

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