La UE aumenta en 4 millones de euros la ayuda humanitaria y sigue pidiendo la plena aplicación de los acuerdos de Minsk. El invierno, con temperaturas inferiores a -30°C y medias siempre por debajo de 0°C provocadas por el anticiclón siberiano, hace que...
Read moreIndependentistas respaldados por Rusia convocan pseudoelecciones en el este de Ucrania
La Unión Europea ha reiterado su total apoyo a la independencia, soberanía e integridad territorial de Ucrania Pseudoelecciones en Ucrania oriental. © European Union 2018 (photo by Iman Begum). La Unión Europea ha reiterado su total apoyo a la independencia,...
Read moreUS sanctions in place until Russia returns control over Crimea to Ukraine
US Ambassador Nikki Haley, UN Security Council. Credits: UKMC In the heat of speculations about possible changes in US foreign policy on Russia and US President Donald Trump's relationship with Russian President, Vladimir Putin, the keynote speech addressed...
Read moreUS centre for countering propaganda and disinformation campaigns
Russian propaganda Last Friday, President Obama signed the 2017 US National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) providing nearly EUR593 billion for war and military spending and restricting transfers from the Guantánamo Bay detention centre, guaranteeing...
Read moreNew Art of Ukraine: Vitaliya Yemchenko
'Love is in the air.' Collection. Vitaliya Art. The post-perestroika generation of Ukrainian artists find ways of bringing the country's unique traditions, sensibility, and worldview to the high European cultural landscape. The legacy and the achievements...
Read more2.5 years of conflict, 2.5 million displaced. Filippo Grandi visits Ukraine
Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, urges safety nets for those really in need – the elderly, the disabled and poorest. Filippo Grandi in Ukraine Two and a half years of conflict have left more than two million Ukrainians displaced...
Read moreThe biggest achievements of the Ukrainian reforms
Ukrainian reforms Reanimation Package of Reforms, the largest coalition of the leading non-governmental organizations and experts from all over Ukraine united with the purpose of promoting and implementing reforms in the country, has released a report...
Read moreGeorgia, Russia, Armenia and Iran agree to create a single common electricity market
Energy Charter Conference in Tbilisi. December 4, 2015 According to sources, on April 13, the ministers of Energy of Georgia, Russia, Armenia and Iran met in the Armenian capital of Yerevan, where they agreed to create a single, common electricity market...
Read moreEU efforts to counter Kremlin and Putin's propaganda. Elmar Brok interviewed by EuroparlTV.
"Propaganda warfare can have as big an impact as regular warfare so the EU needs to strike back by setting the record straight - in an entertaining way," says Elmar Brok to EuroparlTV. Repressing dissent and using Media to promulgate anti-Western sentiment,...
Read moreA day before Nadiya Savchenko trial in Russia, International community call on Russia to release her
Nadiya Savchenko. Graphic credits: UT #PlusEurope1 Nadiya Savchenko, a symbol of Ukrainian national dignity and resistance, continues to risk her life to expose the lack of justice in Russia . A day before a Russian court decides the fate of captive pilot...
Read moreThe Soviet Story: the Ukrainian Genocide
The Soviet Story (Video) "Russian revolutionaries in the czarist times cherished the idea to exterminate all the people older than 25 years of age, as carriers of incorrect ideology. Their successors, bolsheviks, had a more 'reasonable' plan based on...
Read moreSmall-arms fire hit OSCE vehicle in Marinka, Ukraine.
OSCE vehicle after it was attacked by DPR sniper near Donetsk. Photo credits: OSCE SMM. On 16 January an OSCE SMM patrol comprised of three monitors, one paramedic and one language assistant was shot while conducting an assessment of the damages to a...
Read moreUkraine meets criteria for visa liberalisation
Photo credits: Bakhmat An extremely important step for Ukraine and Ukrainians that have been waiting for it for 7 years. The Commission adopted today the sixth and last progress report on the implementation by Ukraine of its Visa Liberalisation Action...
Read moreUkraine's Visa Liberalization
"Visa Liberalization for Ukraine - Is the EU Ready To Support It?" conference. Credits: UMEU. Regarding visa liberalization, during the conference "Visa Liberalization for Ukraine - Is the EU Ready To Support It?" held at the European Parliament, Liubov...
Read moreRussia additional restrictive measures on Ukraine agricultural export
Liubov Nepop, Acting Head of Ukraine's Mission to the EU. Credits: UMEU. Liubov Nepop, Acting Head of Ukraine's Mission to the EU informed about the outcome of the trilateral talks on the EU-Ukraine DCFTA (Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area) entering...
Read moreRussians offered us to join restrictions on trade already introduced by Russia, including those against the European Union
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin Cecilia Malmström, Member of the EC in charge of Trade, Péter Balás, Head of the Support Group for Ukraine and Alexey Ulyukaev, Russian Minister for Economic Development. Credits: EC. Trilateral Talks on the Implementation...
Read morePopasna: EU cooperation aid to Ukraine on the front line
Life a daily struggle for IDPs. Photo credit EU Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Foter CC BY-ND «You got me living on the front line, they got me living on the front line. Oh what kind of man could I be if I can't talk about what I see? They got...
Read moreGeorgia Joins Creative Europe EU program
Freedom bridge - Tbilisi (Georgia) Georgia joins the EU program Creative Europe – On February 18, Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection hosted a briefing dedicated to this event. The briefing was presided by the Minister of Culture Mikheil Giorgadze...
Read moreArmenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh
Armenian Genocide Joint Statement by the Heads of Delegation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair Countries BASEL, Switzerland, 4 December 2014 - We, the Heads of Delegation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries – Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation...
Read moreRussia plans railway to Iran via Azerbaijan
Rail Network Caucasus Central Asia The Russian State Railroads Company earlier this week announced plans to build a railway link from Russia, across Azerbaijan, to Iran. An intergovernmental agreement on building the railway is expected to be signed in...
Read moreStatement by EU HRVP Federica Mogherini on the ‘presidential and parliamentary elections’ in Eastern Ukraine
EU HRVP Federica Mogherini Brussels, 02/11/2014 Statement by High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini on the ‘presidential and parliamentary elections’ in Eastern Ukraine "I consider today's ‘presidential and parliamentary elections’ in Donetsk...
Read more4,6 billion dollar deal secures gas for Ukraine and EU
EU, Ukraine, Russia gas deal Brussels, 30 October 2014 After seven rounds of gas negotiations, last night's talks moderated by Günther H. Oettinger, Vice-President of the European Commission, yielded finally a breakthrough: A 4,6 billion dollar winter...
Read moreEarly local elections in Eastern Ukraine. The EU deplores Lavrov's remarks.
Brussels, 29 October 2014 141029/01 S T A T E M E N T by the EEAS Spokesperson on early local elections in Eastern Ukraine "We deplore Minister Lavrov's remarks about Russia's forthcoming recognition of the elections "on the territory of the proclaimed...
Read moreHey, Mr. Putin! Crying Mamas Don't Lie, Mr Putin!
Music video in support of 21 September 2014 Peace March against war between Russia and Ukraine. Song by Christian Tessen. Photos of refugees from war zone taken by Kira Dzhafarova at "Station Kharkov" volunteer center in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Please see the...
Read moreRatification of the EU & Ukraine Association Agreement. Joint statement by Barroso and Van Rompuy
Joint statement by EU Council President Van Rompuy and Commission President Barroso on the ratification of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. European Union at the UN – New York Summary: 16 September 2014, Brussels - Joint statement by Herman Van Rompuy,...
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