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Montevideo, October 22nd 2025 - 03:43 UTC

Tag: Ukraine

  • Friday, October 10th 2014 - 09:12 UTC

    Will Ukraine commit economic suicide?

    Ukrainian President Poroshenko signed off on the new tax code on Aug. 1, which effectively doubles the tax private gas producers in Ukraine will have to pay

    Ukraine is on the brink of committing economic suicide after imposing a crippling 55% tax on private gas producers, while parliament prepares to vote on next year's budget, which aims for a continuation of the same.

  • Monday, September 22nd 2014 - 04:16 UTC

    Mujica brags on foreign policy; Latam ready to play a larger role in peace issues, Europe has lost clout

    “Europe has lost clout, has fallen into 'military adventurism' and forcing sanctions only punishes the weakest and most vulnerable”, argued Mujica

    Uruguay's president Jose Mujica said the latest world events show that Europe 'has lost clout' in global affairs, and has lost strength as 'peace mediator', and this role could be “much better performed by Latin America”.

  • Tuesday, September 2nd 2014 - 00:18 UTC

    Ukraine's Next Crisis? Economic disaster

    The Ukrainian military's showdown with separatists in the industrial east has forced coal mines to severely cut production or close down entirely

    Ukraine's next crisis will be a devastatingly economic one, as violent conflict destroys critical infrastructure in the east and brings key industry to a halt, furthering weakening the energy sector by crippling coal-based electricity production.

  • Wednesday, July 30th 2014 - 07:23 UTC

    IMF warning on interest rates and Russian crisis for some EU banks

    If the US and UK tighten monetary policy sooner than expected, it could lead to higher borrowing costs worldwide, said IMF Christine Lagarde

    Sharply higher interest rates around the world could combine with weaker growth in emerging markets to slice as much as two percentage points off global growth in the next five years, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.

  • Saturday, July 26th 2014 - 05:45 UTC

    FIFA rejects calls to strip Russia of the 2018 World Cup over Ukraine crisis

    “History has shown so far that boycotting sport events or a policy of isolation or confrontation are not the most effective ways to solve problems.”

    Amid mounting criticism of Russia over the MH17 plane tragedy and conflict with Ukraine, FIFA rejects calls for the country to be stripped of 2018 World Cup hosting rights and says a boycott is no solution to the crisis.

  • Friday, July 18th 2014 - 08:27 UTC

    Today we are all Malaysians: ICTP Chairman issues statement

    Steinmetz: “our prayers are with the families of the victims of the terrible Malaysia Airlines shot down ”

    ”The World travel and tourism industry must come together and take leadership after the Malaysia Airlines (MH17) incident.” This is the opinion voiced by Juergen Thomas Steinmetz, Chairman of the International Coalition of Tourism Partners (ICTP).

  • Friday, July 18th 2014 - 05:39 UTC

    Malaysia jet killing 298 was apparently downed by Ukrainian separatists

    The Ukrainians appeared to point the finger at either Russia or pro-Russian separatists (Pic Reuters)

    A suspected Russian-made surface-to-air missile downed a Malaysia Airlines jet in a separatist-controlled corner of eastern Ukraine on Thursday, prompting the Kiev government to denounce an “act of terror” that killed all 298 people on board.

  • Wednesday, May 7th 2014 - 23:07 UTC

    Falkland Islands and Crimea the new cold war

    Dr. Ivanov says Cristina has chosen to acclaim President Putin’s action in Crimea, hoping in return support the Argentine Falklands' claim.

    In an article for Penguin News, distinguished political and scientific Bulgarian author Dr Lyubomir Ivanov (*) discusses the Crimean conflict and its parallel with the Falklands.The Argentine President Cristina Kirchner praised the recent Crimean status referendum as, “one of the famous referendums of self-determination.”

  • Monday, May 5th 2014 - 06:47 UTC

    West will never go to war over non-NATO Ukraine

    Putin: to invade or not to invade Ukraine

    By Gwynne Dyer - With due apologies to God, Voltaire and the Ukrainians, I must point out that if Ukraine did not exist, it would not be necessary to invent it.It is not a great power, it has no resources the world cannot do without, and it is not a “vital strategic interest” to anybody except the Ukrainians. Not even to the Russians, although they are acting at the moment as though it were.

  • Monday, April 28th 2014 - 07:39 UTC

    Putin is losing Eastern European energy gamble

    “Can they stop buying Russian gas?” “In my opinion it is impossible”, said the Russian president

    Russian President Vladimir Putin said he doesn't think the European community can do without the natural gas it gets from energy monopoly Gazprom. With a Russian economy starting to decline, however, it may be Gazprom that's too strongly interconnected to the European market to break free.