Poroshenko: The Chocolate King Poised to Lead Ukraine
He has chocolate factories galore, is a self-made billionaire and has been both cabinet minister and occasional revolutionary.
He has chocolate factories galore, is a self-made billionaire and has been both cabinet minister and occasional revolutionary. Now Ukrainian oligarch Petro Poroshenko is favourite to become president in a make-or-break election on Sunday, pledging to…
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TD Original
Taking the temperature of freedom of expression in wartime Russia.
Military
It's not enough for Washington to urge talks from behind the scenes, while insisting in public that only Kyiv can negotiate.
The Kremlin has made military modernization a top priority amid tensions with the West after annexing Crimea in 2014.
Trump's real sin is 'hijacking' the establishment's (failed) foreign policy.
The unclassified record of Trump’s April 21 exchange with Volodymyr Zelenskiy bears scant resemblance to the official summary of the talk.
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