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Black Sea border guard, coast guard chiefs sign co-operation memo

December 1, 2016March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine

The heads of border guard and coast guard services of Black Sea countries have signed a memorandum of co-operation and

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Europe 

Three years after EuroMaidan Revolution, Ukrainians disappointed

November 25, 2016 The Kyiv Post Ukraine

Great hopes for a better future drove the wave of demonstrations that swept Ukraine starting in November 2013 – demonstrations

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Bulgaria’s outgoing foreign minister criticises president-elect over statements on Crimea

November 24, 2016November 25, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Roumen Radev, Russia, Ukraine

Statements by Bulgarian president-elect Roumen Radev during his election campaign that it should be accepted that the Russian flag is

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Ukrainian billionaire Pinchuk gave Trump $150 000 for 19-minute video call in 2015

November 24, 2016November 24, 2016 The Kyiv Post Ukraine

For the better part of a year, US President-elect Donald Trump’s slammed his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton for taking large

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Europe 

New Canadian movie sheds light on horror of Holodomor famine

November 20, 2016 The Kyiv Post Ukraine

“Bitter Harvest,” the first major movie about the genocidal artificial famine engineered by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in the 1930s,

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Savchenko writes open letter to Trump, asks him to maintain anti-Russian sanctions

November 11, 2016 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Ukrainian lawmaker and former military pilot Nadia Savchenko has written an open letter to U.S President-elect Donald Trump asking that

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Bulgarian, CEE leaders react to Trump election

November 10, 2016November 11, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Kosovo, Macedonia, Poland, Rossen Plevneliev, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev and Prime Minister Boiko Borissov are among leaders in Central and Eastern Europe who have sent

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Europe 

Dedication ceremony held for new Halom Jewish Community Centre in Kyiv

November 4, 2016November 4, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Ukraine

An official dedication ceremony has been held for the Halom Jewish Community Centre (JCC) in Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv. The

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Europe 

Nato’s Vershbow on alliance troops in Eastern Europe: ‘We had no choice’

October 26, 2016October 26, 2016 Deutsche Welle Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Nato, Poland, Russia, Ukraine

Nato had hoped for cooperation with Russia, but Moscow changed the paradigm by annexing Crimea, the alliance’s Deputy Secretary General,

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