(1) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
(2) A shrinking populace is perhaps a greater challenge than any problems with Russia.
(3) He said Germany was Russia’s most important economic partner, and pointed out that 35% of German gas originated in Russia.
(4) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
(5) One is that the issue of whether the World Cup should go ahead in Russia and Qatar still firmly remains on the table.
(6) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(7) The governing body said then that Russia’s hosting of the 2018 tournament was not in jeopardy.
(8) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(9) Others said it might appeal to Russia, Assad's chief ally, which backs talks between the regime and the opposition.
(10) It’s unclear too whether Google will continue to pay Mozilla to be the default browser in countries outside the US, Russia and China when the current deal ends in December.
(11) That would be the first step towards banning Russia’s track team from next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
(12) Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia 20 years later.
(13) To be sure, when Russia withdrew Cuba's only deterrent against ongoing US attack with a severe threat to proceed to direct invasion and quietly departed from the scene, the Cubans would be infuriated – as they were, understandably.
(14) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(15) As the US and the European Union adopted tougher economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , Russian officials struck a defiant note, promising that Russia would localise production and emerge stronger than before.
(16) Russia Facebook Twitter Pinterest Russian dolls in the likeness of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and the US president-elect, Donald Trump.
(17) Sechin warned the west earlier this week that expanding sanctions over Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region would only make the political situation deteriorate further, according to Reuters.
(18) We need to start hitting companies within Russia … [to] destabilise their economy.
(19) Russia has no national museum of Stalin's repression but Moscow has two Gulag museums.
(20) Russia's most widely watched television station, state-controlled Channel One, followed a bulletin about his death with a summary of the crimes he is accused of committing, including the siphoning of millions of dollars from national airline Aeroflot.
Tricolour
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Example Sentences:
(1) With Soviet-era music blaring from loudspeakers and the Russian tricolour everywhere, the overwhelming feeling in Sevastopol was that the city was finally "going home" after a 23-year stay in Ukraine .
(2) Monk insisted Gomis deserved to be credited with the goal – “he covered every blade of grass, I think” – and applauded his gesture in grabbing a French tricolour from the touchline and waving it to the heavens in solidarity with those who lost their lives in Paris.
(3) [...] But while the Russian tricolour still fluttered over the parliament building on Tuesday night, hundreds of protesters gathered in the square outside, waving the blue and yellow flag of Ukraine, and calling for the country to come together in unity.
(4) I had a huge Irish tricolour flag that covered half the wall, but at the last St Patrick’s day event someone took it.
(5) On Bedloe’s Island, the centre of attraction, a large platform decorated with bunting in which the tricolour was conspicuous, was erected, and hither after the parade was over President Cleveland and the most distinguished American and French representatives were conducted.
(6) Other members include Jobbik, the Movement for a Better Hungary, France's National Front, Italy's Tricolour Flame, Sweden's National Democrats and Belgium's National Front.
(7) Members include Jobbik – The Movement for a Better Hungary, France's National Front, Italy's Tricolour Flame, Sweden's National Democrats and Belgium's National Front.
(8) On the South Lawn on Wednesday she wore a neatly tailored, tricoloured dress by the relatively established British designer Roksanda Ilincic, which chimed perfectly with Obama's pale, neatly tailored suit by US designer Zac Posen.
(9) She arrives wearing a jacket that perfectly matches the posters and the chair set out for her next to the obligatory Tricolour, which blends into the grey-blue walls.
(10) Loyalists angered over the policy switch held a mass rally at city hall on Saturday during which an Irish tricolour was burned.
(11) The arrests triggered panic-buying in the local shops, barricades were erected across the roads and Irish tricolours hung from the lamp-posts.
(12) In an aircraft hangar on the French Riviera, as thousands of supporters waved French tricolour flags, France’s far-right Front National leader, Marine Le Pen , boomed proudly from the stage: “The time of the nation state is back!” She praised Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and said plans to build walls across the world – including one to keep out migrants and refugees at Calais — showed a return to “the time of borders”.
(13) GPO Rebel leader Padraig Pearse and his contingent captured the building and hung the Irish tricolour outside.
(14) To those ones, we hope to show that Macron can give them a voice and help them find solutions.” After a visit to a housing estate, Pierre reports that one man told her with pride: ‘I’ve converted my whole block to the FN.’ But back at the camper van, which sports the tricolour and dozens of photographs of wellwishers accumulated over the weeks, there is better news.
(15) On the July column, the monument marking the 1830 revolution from which the golden-winged Genie of Liberty looks all around, the tricolour flags were still flying; it was a sunny day and something historic had been marked once again in the Place de la Bastille.
(16) Martin McGuinness and his fellow Sinn Féiners currently share power at Belfast and cooperate in the government of the six counties; one must wonder if they really are eager to relinquish that power for the pride of seeing the tricolour flying above a redundant Stormont.
(17) Using these inferences, two tricoloured measuring tapes, one each for CC and MAC, are proposed as simple screening tools for use by primary health workers for identifying low-birthweight neonates in the community without resorting to weighing scales.
(18) Dozens of bodies were wrapped in Yemen's tricolour flag and hoisted onto shoulders of young men who paraded the bodies through the streets shouting, "There is no God but Allah" and "Ali Saleh the tyrant is the enemy of God."
(19) "We will be challenging the Irish government to change its flag flying policy and stop flying the tricolour 365 days per year over the Dáil.
(20) The Sinn Féin president's revelation about his father came after the latter was given a full republican funeral, during which his most famous son placed an Irish tricolour on his coffin.