Obama to approve new Russian sanctions
President Barack Obama has decided to sign legislation authorizing more sanctions on Russia for its role in the Ukraine crisis,
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Chevron pulls out of gas extraction in western Ukraine
Global Energy giant Chevron terminated its contract with Ukraine to extract shale gas in western Ukraine after trying for more
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Russia protests against US aid for Ukraine military
Russia is criticizing legislation passed by the U.S. Congress authorizing $350 million in military aid to Ukraine and new sanctions
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US Congress approves bill offering defensive weapons and more for Ukraine
In a blitzkrieg vote on December 11, both chambers of the US Congress passed a landmark bill known as the Ukraine Freedom Support
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Ukraine president urges Russia to withdraw troops
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is pleading with Russia to remove its troops from war-torn eastern Ukraine. President Poroshenko made his
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Merkel: Russia meddling with countries’ EU aspirations
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is bitterly accusing Russia of trying to meddle with the desires of eastern European countries to
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Ukraine’s power plants working at minimum capacity because of coal shortage
Ukraine is obviously short of coal, the country’s newly-appointed Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn told a December 5 news conference in Kyiv. There
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Ukraine announces December 9 truce
Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko has ordered a new cease-fire next week, as part of a push to end months of
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Russia’s Putin defends annexation of Crimea
Russian president Vladimir Putin has defended his country’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and accused the West of using the
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