Tag: russia

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Cancelling Salford’s £1.8m contract with Russian gas provider could see bill rise by 800%

Salford is asking for help to cancel its £1.8 million contract with Russian state-owned Gazprom which provides vital public energy to Salford’s […]

Female councillors wear traditional Ukraine wreaths 'Vinochky' to support Ukraine. (Credit: Tanya Burch)

Two Parallel Worlds: Ukrainian Salford councillor on supporting her family and country facing the invasion

Salford councillor Tanya Burch had to hold back tears as she meets with her Ukrainian family taking refuge in Poland, […]

March in London. Gary Knight via Flickr. Image under public domain

Ukraine invasion: Salford City Mayor Paul Dennett offers condolences following recent events in Ukraine

Salford Mayor Paul Dennett took to Twitter to share a letter of “support and solidarity” to the UK’s Ukrainian ambassador […]

Strangers in their own homeland: the experience of Ukrainian displaced peoples

AFTER pro-Russian separatists gained control of key government buildings and infrastructure in the spring of 2014, an armed conflict erupted in […]

Europe’s ‘frozen conflict’ – the third year of war in Ukraine

SIMPLY PUT, the war in Ukraine is complicated. A war which started as an uprising in reaction to the pro-democratic Maidan […]

Special delivery: Ukraine’s front-line civilian volunteers

THE WAR in East Ukraine has been raging since mid-2014, where armed groups of separatists, supported by, and loyal to, Russia, […]

Richard McLaren: “London 2012 was corrupted on an unprecedented scale”

MORE than 1,000 Russian athletes benefited from the biggest doping scandal in history, according to the second part of Professor […]