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Russia, Ukraine, EU leaders end summit with no breakthrough

October 18, 2014October 21, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

A high-stakes meeting between the presidents of Ukraine and Russia ended Friday with few outward signs of progress in ending

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Russian, Israeli, UK and Turkish military ‘squeeze’ into Cyprus EEZ

October 17, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Cyprus, Russia, Turkey

Russian, Israeli, British and Turkish military forces will all be “squeezed” into the Cyprus Exclusive Economic Zone(EEZ) in the next few

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Russian Navy to have exercises in the Cypriot EEZ

October 16, 2014October 16, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Cyprus, Russia

The Russian navy will conduct exercises with rocket launching inside Cyprus’ EEZ, opposite Barbaros. According to an announcement by the

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Serbia salutes Putin with pompous parade

October 16, 2014October 16, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Russian president Vladimir Putin is in Serbia as the guest of honor at a military parade in Belgrade marking 70

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Senior Polish officer detained on suspicion of spying for foreign country

October 16, 2014October 16, 2014 The Warsaw Voice Poland, Russia

A high-ranking Polish army officer has been detained on suspicion of being a member of a foreign intelligence service, the

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Experts divided over whether sanctions against Russia are working

October 15, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

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

October 15, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

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

October 14, 2014October 15, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Rossen Plevneliev, Russia

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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Europe 

Dutch experts, investigators return to MH17 crash site

October 14, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Dutch officials returned to the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine on Monday in a new

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