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Ukraine crisis: Bulgarian security chiefs meet as concern deepens

April 17, 2014April 22, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Kristian Vigenin, Nato, Rossen Plevneliev, Russia, Ukraine

A special meeting of Bulgaria’s national staff of security chiefs and senior government officials has been called to discuss the

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Europe 

Kyiv suffers setback in east Ukraine

April 16, 2014April 16, 2014 Jamie Dettmer of VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Ukrainian authorities in Kyiv suffered a serious setback Wednesday in their efforts to restore order in the troubled east of

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Europe 

Ukraine’s SBU predicts Russian-backed murder to justify full-scale invasion

April 16, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

The invasion of Ukraine’s eastern regions is made in Moscow, the Security Service of Ukraine said on April 16, and

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Europe 

Lifestyle Blog: Russian website accommodates Ukrainian women seeking sex

April 16, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Sex and borshch – this is what Russian men are offering Ukrainian women “who want to leave Bandera Ukraine as

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Europe 

Nato announces further air, sea and land deployments in response to Ukraine crisis

April 16, 2014April 17, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Russia, Ukraine

Nato will have “more planes in the air, more ships in the water and more readiness on land,” Secretary General

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Europe 

Ukraine receives additional aid as tensions rise

April 16, 2014 Mil Arcega of VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Tensions are rising in Ukraine even as assurances of international aid to stabilize the country’s battered economy have started pouring

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Europe 

Ukrainian deputy prime minister says several hundred Russian troops in Ukraine

April 16, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Hundreds of Russian soldiers are in Donetsk Oblast and their numbers are increasing, said First Deputy head of the Security

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Bulgaria 

Russia’s ‘provocative’ flights over Black Sea continue to cause tensions

April 15, 2014April 15, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Russia, Ukraine

Bulgaria’s defence minister has complained that Russia military aircrafts are continuing to carry out provocative reconnaissance flights close to Bulgaria’s

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Europe 

Obama, Putin talk as separatists tighten grip on eastern Ukraine

April 15, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Pro-Russia demonstrators on Monday defied a government deadline to vacate occupied buildings in exchange for amnesty, as Ukraine’s interim president

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