Новости за 11.10.2015

Thousands mourned the 95 victims of Turkey's deadliest attack in years as state inspectors tried on Oct. 11 to identify who sent suicide bombers to a rally promoting peace with the country's Kurdish rebels.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met Saudi Arabia's defense minister on Oct. 11, in Moscow's biggest attempt so far to reach out to enemies of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad since Russia joined the conflict with air strikes.

Islamic State militants have scored their most significant advances in the province of Aleppo, the closest they have come to Syria's former commercial capital in two years, as it becomes increasingly clear that they are taking advantage of Russian airstrikes against the rest of the opposition to march into new territory.

Spain return to the scene of their Euro 2012 triumph to play Ukraine in a qualifier on Oct. 11 with their place at next year's finals secure and coach Vicente del Bosque said he would field an experimental team in Kyiv.

Britain has told Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman he was still welcome to invest in the country even after he was forced to divest gas assets there under pressure from the previous government, Fridman's fund said in a statement.

Russia launched a new aerial bombardment on Syrian rebels, helping President Bashar al-Assad's government reclaim territory it had lost.

President Putin turned 63 this week, but, as he savored his birthday cake, did the thought occur to him that he might have bitten off more than he could chew with his Syria strategy?

MINSK - Belarussians were voting on Oct. 11 in an election that is likely to see authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko claim a fifth term, with the EU possibly lifting sanctions against him if the polls take place without incident.

LONDON - Under pressure from the British government, the LetterOne Group, an investment vehicle led by the Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman, said on Oct. 11 that it had sold oil and natural gas assets in the British North Sea to Ineos, a Switzerland-based petrochemical company with no previous experience operating oil and gas fie

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow will not deploy ground troops to Syria, where it has conducted air strikes against what it claims are Islamic State targets.

Lewis Hamilton took an easy win in the Russian Grand Prix to move to the brink of his third world championship. Hamilton was running second to Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg when the German ran into problems with his throttle early in the race and had to retire.

In a hangar at an airfield in southern Holland, a ghost has been conjured from the gloom. Over the past nine months Dutch investigators have been fitting together pieces of recovered plane wreckage and debris. They have rebuilt part of the cockpit and business section.

Chelsea FC find themselves just off the pace in Group G after losing in Portugal and it will be another tough test against an FC Dynamo Kyiv side who have four points.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Saudi Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman on the sidelines of the Russian Grand Prix in Sochi on Oct. 11, the Kremlin said.

This choice of caption in the German language suggests that Europe is now at the receiving end of confrontation between West and Russia.

Lawyers and others got some career tips from professionals at Kyiv Post’s Employment Fair on Oct. 10.

The information-psychological war against Ukraine continues, according to Andriy Lysenko, speaker of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences often stirs controversy with its choice of Nobel laureates in literature. Or, rather, it loves to bait dictators, reactionaries, racists and anti-Semites. By giving this year’s Prize to Belarus’ Svetlana Alexievich, it certainly raised a bunch important questions for the entire post-Soviet and Russian-speaking community.

Even before becoming Richard Nixon's national security adviser, Henry Kissingerunderstood how hard it was to make foreign policy in Washington.

Authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is virtually guaranteed re-election for a fifth term as Belarus goes to the polls on Sunday.

Russian war planes pounded Syrian rebels unaffiliated with Islamic State on Sunday, insurgents said, helping Moscow's ally Bashar al-Assad reclaim territory and dealing a fresh setback to the strategy of Washington and its allies.

MOSCOW - Russian fighter jets hit 63 targets in Syria in the past 24 hours, the defence ministry said Sunday, as Moscow intensifies a campaign it says is aimed against the Islamic State jihadist group.

Doubts have been voiced over whether a international probe into the downing of MH17 are being voiced.

The European Union must stop countries picking and choosing which refugees they accept in its relocation program, otherwise it will turn into a shameful 'human market', Greece's new migration minister said.

The President had an interview with BBC and shared his opinion on the aggression of Russia in Syria, the results of the Paris meeting in the Normandy format and described present situation in Donbas.