Eastern Europe

Ukraine agrees for ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine under pressure from Germany and FranceGerman Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has confirmed that Ukraine has agreed for ceasefire in Eastern...

KIEV: Ukraine has launched a full-scale military operation against pro-Russia separatists in the east, hours after a ceasefire ended between the two sides.The government...

KIEV: The Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced an end to a unilateral ceasefire with pro-Russian separatists in the eastern regions of Donetsk and...

Kiev: Ukrainian President Poroshenko declared martial law in the Donbas and  Lugansk and Donetsk with immediate effect. As ceasefire expired  at 22:00 June 30 with Russia,...

Kiev: Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia sign free trade deal with the EU.The "Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area" (DCFTA) will replace the...

MOSCOW: The upper chamber of the Russian parliament on Wednesday revoked the right of military intervention in Ukraine, a day after the country’s President...

Putin for new strategy to cap spread of purist radical Islam through social mediaBy agha Iqrar HaroonDevelopment Observer for Central Asia and Eastern Europe With...

KIEV: The separatist rebels have shot down a Ukrainian military Il-76 transport jet in the country’s eastern city of Luhansk last night that left...

Kiev: There will be no Russian gas supply for Ukraine from Monday. Ukrainian Prime Minster Arseny Yatsenyuk has ordered Energy and Coal ministries, regional governments and...

  "NATO Allies do not, and will not, recognise Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea”, said NATO Secretary General Rasmussen during meeting of NATO Defence Ministers...