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Russian court finds Savchenko guilty of murder

March 22, 2016March 22, 2016 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

It ended as it had begun and continued throughout: in farce and confusion. A court in the small Russian border

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Europe 

Russian court prepares to find Savchenko guilty of murder

March 21, 2016March 21, 2016 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

A judge in a Russian court in Donetsk, Rostov Oblast, started summing up the case against Nadiya Savchenko on March

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Russia says Polish comments on Smolensk air crash groundless

March 15, 2016 The Warsaw Voice Poland, Russia

President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov Monday described as “groundless” and “unobjective” comments by Poland’s defence minister Antoni Macierewicz suggesting

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Putin orders withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria

March 15, 2016 VOANews Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria, as new U.N.-mediated peace talks on Syria

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Ex-Kremlin aide found dead in DC hotel ‘departed US 40 days after his own death’

March 12, 2016March 12, 2016 The Kyiv Post Russia

The mysterious death of former Kremlin aide Mikhail Lesin has gotten even weirder as details have emerged showing that Lesin

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Bulgarian Foreign Minister calls for Russia to immediately release Ukrainian pilot Savchenko

March 11, 2016March 12, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov, in his capacity as head of the committee of ministers of the Council of Europe,

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Savchenko flips off Russian court as it delays her verdict

March 10, 2016 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Nadiya Savchenko showed that she will be defiant to the end when during a March 9 court hearing she gave

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian parliamentary committee on Russian, Turkish interference in politics set for stillbirth

March 2, 2016March 4, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Russia, Turkey

The first meeting of Bulgaria’s parliamentary special committee to examine allegations of interference by Turkey and Russia in the country’s

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Europe 

Turks see Russia as greatest threat, poll finds

March 2, 2016March 2, 2016 Dorian Jones of VOANews Russia, Turkey

With Russian-Turkish tensions mounting, a recent poll finds that the Turkish people see Russia as their greatest threat. The annual

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