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20.5.2014
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11:15
20.5.2014
BBC's Ukrainian service has a video report on a chocolatier in Lviv, in western Ukraine, that offers Putin busts in milk or white chocolate.
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20.5.2014
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09:53
20.5.2014
Russia's central bank is earmarking 3 billion rubles for loans to enterprises in Crimea, Interfax reports, quoting authorities on the annexed peninsula. Russia has set June 1 as the end of the transition to the Russian ruble from the Ukrainian hryvnya.
08:49
20.5.2014
Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has expressed support via Facebook for the eastern oligarch Rinat Akhmetov's call last night for workers to conduct a symbolic strike to protest what he described as banditry and "genocide" being waged by the separatist "Donetsk People's Republic."
Avakov warns "haters" that "it's too late." He says "the people's power and energy will sweep trash better than any [antiterrorism officers]."
Akhmetov's System Capital Management employs around 280,000 people in eastern Ukraine, and many of his employees have been patrolling streets in the past week alongside police in Mariupol and elsewhere to discourage separatism. Here is his video appeal to them and others to stage their walkout:
Avakov warns "haters" that "it's too late." He says "the people's power and energy will sweep trash better than any [antiterrorism officers]."
Akhmetov's System Capital Management employs around 280,000 people in eastern Ukraine, and many of his employees have been patrolling streets in the past week alongside police in Mariupol and elsewhere to discourage separatism. Here is his video appeal to them and others to stage their walkout:
08:33
20.5.2014
On the gas front, in the same Bloomberg Television interview, Medvedev suggested the Ukrainian government must present a timetable for settling its multibillion-dollar gas debt and make a “substantial” initial payment.
08:31
20.5.2014
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev suggested in a Bloomberg Television interview that "[w]e are slowly but surely moving toward a second Cold War, which no one needs."
When asked, Medvedev declined to provide any assurance that Russia would not incorporate the Donetsk or Luhansk regions of Ukraine, where pro-Russia separatists put on hastily organized referendums on independence and subsequently asked to be annexed by Russia, the agency reported.
He said progress in relations with the United States achieved under his presidency (2008-2012) "are now being reduced to zero."
08:17
20.5.2014