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US President Barack Obama called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss escalating violence in eastern Ukraine, urging him to embrace a negotiated solution.

• 11 февраля 2015, 13:10

US President Barack Obama agreed to hold off a controversial decision on sending arms to Ukraine until German-led efforts to broker a ceasefire with Russia are given a chance.

• 10 февраля 2015, 14:44

Residents of the Tekstylnyk district in east Ukraine rebel stronghold Donetsk have only tears and unanswered questions after a barrage of shells killed four people.

• 05 февраля 2015, 11:57

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker warned Greece's new government that Brussels will not change all of its rules just to solve the debt crisis in Athens.

• 03 февраля 2015, 17:45

US Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Ukraine next week amid growing global concern over the intensifying nine-month war in the country's eastю

• 31 января 2015, 12:38

Pro-Russian separatists vowed on Friday to push their latest offensive in eastern Ukraine further if truce talks with Kiev's pro-Western leaders fail.

• 31 января 2015, 12:20

Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko appealed to Russia's Vladimir Putin while Washington threatened tougher measures should Moscow fail to rein in separatists mounting.

• 29 января 2015, 15:44

About 1,100 children are living rough in underground shelters in Ukraine's rebel-held eastern city of Donetsk.

• 28 января 2015, 11:25

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan has made a statement in relation to the intensification of the Ukrainian crisis.

• 26 января 2015, 19:26

Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov has met with Prime Minister of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.

• 26 января 2015, 15:41

The UN Security Council will hold closed-door meetings Monday on the crisis that has left Yemen in a political vacuum.

• 26 января 2015, 13:20

German Chancellor urged her Russian counterpart in a phone call to "put pressure" on Ukraine's pro-Kremlin separatists to end a recent upsurge in violence.

• 26 января 2015, 13:18

Pro-Russian rebels vowed to conquer more territory in eastern Ukraine and ruled out peace talks after Kiev retreated from a long-disputed airport.

• 24 января 2015, 14:38

Russians are ready to ride out the current economic crisis, even by eating less food, and to stand by President Vladimir Putin's side regardless.

• 24 января 2015, 13:28

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that pro-Russian rebels had paid a "high price" for their escalating attacks.

• 23 января 2015, 14:56

Ukrainian forces ceded a long-disputed airport to Russian-backed rebels as an upsurge in clashes killed nearly 50 people.

• 23 января 2015, 14:16

Samruk-Kazyna is cutting spendings and investments in 2015 amid the deteriorating economic situation.

• 23 января 2015, 01:37

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has discussed the situation in Ukraine as well ask sanctions against Russia during a phone call initiated by the American President Barak Obama.

• 22 января 2015, 17:44

Shelling hit a trolleybus in war-torn east Ukraine's Donetsk and killed at least 13 people, hours after peace talks in Berlin called for a ceasefire.

• 22 января 2015, 16:18

The Russian government unveiled a $21 billion anti-crisis plan to tackle the country's stalled economy.

• 22 января 2015, 12:51