Google bows to Russian pressure, reverses changes to names of Crimean towns
Google on July 28 changed the names of towns, villages and districts in Russian-occupied Crimea on its Google Maps mapping
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Ukrainian-Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet killed in Kyiv
Journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed in a car explosion in Kyiv on the morning of July 20, reported Ukrainska Pravda.
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Nato stands in ‘solidarity’ with Ukraine, condemns Russia’s war
Although cracks in the Western alliance emerged publicly before the July 8-9 Nato Summit, the 28 allies in the end
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Clash with Ukrainian protesters as Putin’s ‘Night Wolves’ arrive in Bulgaria
There were arrests in Bulgaria’s Black Sea city of Bourgas on June 30 after clashes between supporters of the Russian
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President Plevneliev: Bulgaria will never recognise Russian annexation of Crimea
Bulgaria will never recognise Russia’s annexation of Crimea, President Rossen Plevneliev said in Sofia on June 30 after talks with
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Ukrainian lawmakers fume over omission of Ukraine from human rights report
Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland’s annual human rights report, given on World Refugee Day on June 20, upset
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Ukraine: Investigators arrest 10 suspects in major gas fraud
Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau and Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office detained 10 former officials suspected of embezzlement of three billion hryvnia
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EU releases details on extended sanctions against Russia
The European Union on Saturday published details of its decision extending sanctions against Russia for its 2014 takeover of Ukraine’s
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EU extends sanctions against Russia over illegal annexation of Crimea, Sevastopol
The European Council has extended by a year its sanctions against Russia in response to Moscow’s illegal annexation of Crimea
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