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Ukraine News - May 15, 2014

By bartolo - Posted on 14 May 2014

Ukraine Begins Peace Talks _ Without Separatists Who Weren't Invited - NPR

VIDEO: Ukraine Launches Talks But Its Foes Are Missing - YouTube

PM Yatsenyuk calls for constitutional amendments and decentralization of power in Ukraine - ITAR-TASS

Next roundtable on national unity due in Donetsk on May 17 - The Voice of Russia

US commends Ukraine for roundtables, understands the unwillingness to invite separatists 'who literally have blood on their hands' - KUNA

Ukraine on brink of civil war: Lavrov - THE DAILY STAR

VIDEO (Full Interview): Ukraine `as Close to Civil War' as Possible: Lavrov - Bloomberg

Dragging Ukraine into NATO negative for European security, It would be a critical threat to Russia’s national security: Lavrov - RT News

Russia Can Do Business With Elected Ukraine Leader, Lavrov Says - Bloomberg

Donetsk gunmen in Ukraine seize election office, declaring that the country’s May 25 parliamentary and presidential vote will not be held there - The Globe and Mail

Donetsk People’s Republic starts forming its own army - ITAR-TASS

Almost all policemen in Ukraine’s Donetsk come down to side of pro-federation activists - ITAR-TASS

Donetsk separatists capture army commander in Ukraine - London Evening Standard

Self-defense units in Slavyansk, Kramatorsk confirm to have killed 8 Ukrainian gov't troops, destroyed several armored vehicles - The Voice of Russia

UN-marked strike helicopter ‘used by Kiev against militia’ sparks scandal - RT News

Crimea Ready to Provide Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine’s Luhansk, Donetsk Regions - RIA Novosti

Billionaire Akhmetov's empire on frontline in Ukraine crisis - Yahoo News

Akhmetov Considers It Necessary To Amend Constitution, Decentralize Power In Eastern Ukraine But Is Against Independence - Ukranian News

Ukrainian oligarch Akhmetov calls for suspension of Kiev terror operations in East Ukraine, uses resources to set up citizens' brigades - Sott.net

VIDEO (Ukrainian): Akhmetov: Successful Donbas in unified Ukraine - ukrstream.tv

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Ukraine Crisis Hits Economies in Region, EBRD Says - WSJ.com

EBRD warns on deeper recession threat facing Ukraine and Russia could follow - GlobalPost

EBRD: Russian Recession Could Damage Global Economy - The Moscow Times

Press Release: Russia-Ukraine crisis threatens recovery in EBRD region - EBRD

REPORT (Full): The Ukraine/Russia crisis weighs on transition region's growth - EBRD

What Ukraine’s economy looks like without its Russian-speaking regions - Quartz

Russia says open to talks if Ukraine pays off some gas debt, revised gas price is possible - Reuters

Ukraine to use EU and IMF money to pay for Russian gas - EUobserver

Russian gas supplies at risk from Ukraine crisis: Germany’s utility - ITAR-TASS

NASA hopes to continue cooperation with Russia on ISS - The Voice of Russia

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