UKRAINE LEADER TILTS TOWARD RUSSIA
By MARIA DANILOVA and YURAS KARMANAU A young couple embrace each other as they look at the stage during a concert after a pro-European Union rally in the Independence Square…
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PUTIN TO PARDON JAILED TYCOON KHODORKOVSKY
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and NATALIYA VASILYEVA Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) Vladimir Putin Russian President…
WHO HAS THE POWER IN UKRAINE’S CRISIS?
By JIM HEINTZ Pro-European Union activists gather during a rally in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. About 200,000 anti-government demonstrators converged on the central square of…
MOSCOW: MISSILES IN WESTERN RUSSIA LEGITIMATE
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV FILE – In this Tuesday, May 7, 2013 file photo, Russian Iskander missiles make their way through Red Square during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military…
FRANCE PUSHING EU TO FUND MILITARY INTERVENTIONS
By SYLVIE CORBET Former FARCA (Central African Republic Forces) soldiers linked to Anti-Balaka Christian militiamen who have set up camp in a school in the Boeing neighborhood of the Central…
UKRAINIAN OPPOSITION PRESSES WITH MASSIVE RALLY
By MARIA DANILOVA and YURAS KARMANAU Pro-European Union activists gather during a rally in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. About 200,000 anti-government demonstrators converged on the…
UKRAINE PRESIDENT PROPOSES PROTESTER AMNESTY
By JIM HEINTZ and YURAS KARMANAU A Pro-European Union activist guards a barricade in the Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine Friday, Dec. 13, 2013. A leader of the massive anti-government…
EU’S ASHTON: YANUKOVYCH WANTS TO SIGN EU DEAL
By JIM HEINTZ and RAF CASERT Pro-European Union activists are trained to resist police inside their tent camp at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. Ukraine was…