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Rouble plunges to new lows despite rate hike

December 16, 2014 VOANews Russia

The rouble has tumbled to another historic low, despite an emergency attempt by Russia to prop up the rapidly declining

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Europe 

Russian rouble falls to new lows

December 16, 2014 VOANews Russia

The value of the Russian ruble plunged to new lows Monday against the dollar and euro, with Moscow’s central bank

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Europe 

Russia protests against US aid for Ukraine military

December 13, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Russia is criticizing legislation passed by the U.S. Congress authorizing $350 million in military aid to Ukraine and new sanctions

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Europe 

Poland concerned by Russia’s Baltic military actions

December 12, 2014 The Warsaw Voice Nato, Poland, Russia

Poland’s defence minister Tomasz Siemoniak said Thursday he was concerned by the level of Russia’s recent naval and air force

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Business 

Russia-Turkey pipeline has economic, strategic motives

December 11, 2014May 10, 2024 Dorian Jones of VOANews energy, Russia, South Stream, Turkey

Russia’s decision to cancel a gas pipeline to Bulgaria in preference to Turkey is being heralded as an important victory

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Bulgaria to offer South Stream restart plan

December 11, 2014December 13, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, energy, Russia, South Stream

Bulgaria intends to offer the European Commission a plan that would lead to the resuscitation of the South Stream pipeline,

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Europe 

Ukraine president urges Russia to withdraw troops

December 11, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is pleading with Russia to remove its troops from war-torn eastern Ukraine. President Poroshenko made his

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Europe 

Merkel: Russia meddling with countries’ EU aspirations

December 8, 2014 VOANews Moldova, Russia, Ukraine

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is bitterly accusing Russia of trying to meddle with the desires of eastern European countries to

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Europe 

Russia’s Putin defends annexation of Crimea

December 4, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Russian president Vladimir Putin has defended his country’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and accused the West of using the

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