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Westinghouse chips away at Russian nuclear fuel monopoly in Ukraine

June 18, 2014 The Kyiv Post energy, Russia, Ukraine

During a routine inspection of the Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine’s Mykolaiv Oblast in 2012, the State Inspectorate

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Political crisis in Kosovo deepens

June 17, 2014June 17, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Kosovo

Political efforts continue in Kosovo to secure a majority in the parliament of the country, which would lead to the

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Russia, Ukraine, former natural gas trading partners, now trade insults

June 17, 2014May 10, 2024 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia, Ukraine

Russia and Ukraine, once brotherly nations, are fighting over natural gas deliveries and military aid. Russia has stopped buying potatoes

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Final judgment on Croatian former PM Sanader: 8.5 years in prison

June 17, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Croatia

The Supreme Court confirmed on June 13 2014 the first verdict against former Prime Minister of Croatia Ivo Sanader for

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Bulgarian border should move west into Serbia – report

June 16, 2014June 16, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Serbia

Bulgaria is little bit more of a Western country than previously had been thought, because a point of its border

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Polish government under pressure over eavesdropping scandal

June 16, 2014 The Warsaw Voice Poland

The opposition has called on Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Cabinet to resign after a magazine said it had a tape

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Russia, Ukraine fail to reach gas deal as deadline looms

June 16, 2014June 16, 2014 VOANews energy, Russia, Ukraine

Russian energy giant Gazprom say emergency talks with Ukraine aimed at ending a natural gas pricing dispute have ended without

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Kyiv vows ‘adequate response’ to downed plane

June 14, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko summoned his defense and security chiefs for consultations Saturday after pro-Russian separatists shot down a military

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Deadliest day for Ukraine in Kremlin-backed separatist war spurs outrage

June 14, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

June 14 marks the deadliest day of the undeclared war between Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists in the country’s eastern regions

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