Experts divided over whether sanctions against Russia are working
After several rounds of international sanctions against Russia for its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in March and support of
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Putin, Poroshenko to meet in Milan in bid to find peace
At the Asia-Europe summit in Milan on October 16 and 17, Ukrainian President Perto Poroshenko and his Russian counterpart Vladimir
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Bulgarian defence minister: ‘Catastrophic consequences’ unless country rids itself of old Russian military equipment
There will be “catastrophic consequences” for Bulgaria’s armed forces if they are not weaned soon from reliance on old Russian
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Dutch experts, investigators return to MH17 crash site
Dutch officials returned to the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine on Monday in a new
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Putin orders troop pullback from Ukrainian border
Russia says it will withdraw 17 600 troops from its border with Ukraine in the Rostov region, where they had
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Russia’s Putin addresses CIS summit overshadowed by Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin — embroiled in an a bitter standoff with Western governments over Ukraine — said his country
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Bulgaria, Russia embroiled in new diplomatic spat
For the second time in the space of one week, officials in Sofia and Moscow exchanged harsh words, after Russia’s
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Bulgarian Foreign Ministry: Russian deputy PM Rogozin’s comments on warplanes ‘completely unacceptable’
Comments by the deputy prime minister of Russia, Dmitry Rogozin, on the Bulgarian government’s intentions to replace outdated Russian military
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NATO chief: Rapid reaction force in Eastern Europe does not violate deal with Russia
NATO’s new chief, Jens Stoltenberg, says plans for a new rapid reaction force in Eastern Europe do not break a
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