News / MN Newsletter // December 23

December 23, 2018

Russia Ukraine Ex-chief of Ukraine's foreign intel: Role of anti-Russian sanctions exaggerated - UNIAN Hunger games: Ukrainians spend half of their income on food, highest in Europe - RT Black Sea Tensions: UK Warship's Arrival in Ukraine 'Purely Symbolic' - Prof. - Sputnik International The Telegraph: How Orban's citizenship offer in western Ukraine is threatening to unravel European unity over Russia - Kyiv Post Painting stolen in WWII is heading home from US to Ukraine - Stuff.co.nz Ex-chief of Ukraine's foreign intel: Role of anti-Russian sanctions exaggerated - UNIAN UNIAN Ex-chief of Ukraine's foreign intel: Role of anti-Russian sanctions exaggeratedBy introducing limited sanctions, Western countries invite the Kremlin to dialogue. REUTERS Former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, General of the Army of Ukraine Mykola Malomuzh says that the role of sanctions imposed by the West on Russia is exaggerated."The conclusions regarding the negative consequences of the sanctions imposed on Russia are exaggerated. Read More Hunger games: Ukrainians spend half of their income on food, highest in Europe - RT RT If you think basic items are costing you too much, take a look at this year’s research by RIA Novosti, which shows how much people in European countries spend on food, alcohol and leisure. Read More Black Sea Tensions: UK Warship's Arrival in Ukraine 'Purely Symbolic' - Prof. - Sputnik International Sputnik International A British Royal Navy warship, the HMS Echo, arrived in the port of Ukraine's Odessa in what UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson described as "sending a message" to Putin. It came weeks after Kerch Strait incident when the crews of the Ukrainian ships refused to establish communication and demands to stop voiced by Russian border guards. Read More The Telegraph: How Orban's citizenship offer in western Ukraine is threatening to unravel European unity over Russia - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post The Telegraph: How Orban’s citizenship offer in western Ukraine is threatening to unravel European unity over Russia Read More Painting stolen in WWII is heading home from US to Ukraine - Stuff.co.nz Stuff.co.nz AP Standing nearly 2.4 metres, the painting depicts the 16th century Russian czar Ivan the Terrible looking crestfallen as he flees the Kremlin on horseback. A painting that was stolen during World War II and later spent decades in a US home will be returned to an art museum in Ukraine, according to US and Ukrainian officials. Read More

Top News Chaos at home, fear abroad: Trump unleashed puts western world on edge - The Guardian Trump learned nothing from the midterms. Exhibit A: the shutdown. - CNN Google Assistant comes in first and Cortana finishes last in smart speaker Q&A test - GeekWire Google Abandons Its Chinese Search Engine...but Not the Chinese Market - The Motley Fool Queer Eye, Sabrina, Nailed It: Best new Netflix shows of 2018 - NEWS.com.au Chaos at home, fear abroad: Trump unleashed puts western world on edge - The Guardian The Guardian The US stumbled into the holiday season with a sense of unravelling, as a large chunk of the federal government ground to a halt, the stock market crashed and the last independently minded, globally respected, major figure left in the administration announced he could no longer work with the president. Read More Trump learned nothing from the midterms. Exhibit A: the shutdown. - CNN CNN Number of the week: A Quinnipiac University poll finds that 43% of voters support building a wall along the Mexican border. A majority, 54%, are opposed to such a wall. If anything, the Quinnipiac poll is an outlier in favor of the pro-wall position. Read More Google Assistant comes in first and Cortana finishes last in smart speaker Q&A test - GeekWire GeekWire The Google Home and Google Home Mini are powered by a voice-controlled virtual assistant. (Google Photo) The Google Assistant finished tops among the digital brains that power smart speakers in an extensive Q&A test, answering nearly 88 percent of queries correctly. Read More Google Abandons Its Chinese Search Engine...but Not the Chinese Market - The Motley Fool The Motley Fool Alphabet's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google has "effectively ended" the development of its "Dragonfly" censored search engine for China, according to The Intercept. Read More Queer Eye, Sabrina, Nailed It: Best new Netflix shows of 2018 - NEWS.com.au NEWS.com.au Streaming giant Netflix started out and ended strong in 2018, dropping new seasons of fan favourite and critically acclaimed shows alike. If you are a big Rotten Tomatoes fan, you might be blown away to learn that 15 Netflix seasons got a perfect 100 per cent in 2018 alone. Read More

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