Follow South China Morning Post - Russia & Central Asia, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/scmp22 Wed, 06 Jul 2022 12:56:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGM3P0MUjEpmjSlmFkX7M1Jw After Russian forces on Sunday took control of Lysychansk, Ukraine’s military braced for an assault on Donetsk, with the cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk both in the Russian line of fire.]]> Wed, 06 Jul 2022 10:19:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGM3P0MUjEpmjSlmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGP6iv9oqNNGR-T5HJgy6HUf Russian forces struck a market in the city of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, killing a woman and wounding at least three other people, police said.]]> Tue, 05 Jul 2022 15:43:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGP6iv9oqNNGR-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGOzWFPH8SDRN-T5HJgy6HUf The 30 Nato allies will now begin a months-long period to ratify membership of the two Nordic countries.]]> Tue, 05 Jul 2022 11:17:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGOzWFPH8SDRN-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGPKKvYHIsSt8-zdsCmHakzH Following the fall of the city of Lysychansk to Russian forces on Sunday, the focus of the fighting in eastern Ukraine appears to have shifted from the Luhansk region to the neighbouring region of Donetsk.]]> Tue, 05 Jul 2022 07:51:26 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGPKKvYHIsSt8-zdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGNAZNbRIo2zX-zdsCmHakzH The geopolitics of the South Caucasus makes it harder for Beijing and Moscow to share space there, compared with in Central Asia. Russia lacks a strategic motive to support the expansion of China’s presence in former Soviet regions if it does not help in its rivalry with the West.]]> Tue, 05 Jul 2022 06:15:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGNAZNbRIo2zX-zdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGMxQWA6fvuDwyejEQ2Mq9rY Prime Minister Denys Shmygal says the frozen assets of Russia and its oligarchs should be a ‘key source of recovery’ for his war-torn country.]]> Mon, 04 Jul 2022 19:06:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGMxQWA6fvuDwyejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGNo7dgpzUAv3-zdsCmHakzH Moscow’s forces seized the strategic city of Lysychansk over the weekend, and now Russia now has its eyes on the entire Donetsk region. The loss of Lysychansk prompted Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky to step up calls for an increased supply of weapons from the West.]]> Mon, 04 Jul 2022 18:00:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGNo7dgpzUAv3-zdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGPvuYWHvoPiquT5HJgy6HUf June 30, the Russian army said it withdrew from the island ‘as a sign of goodwill’, while Kyiv insisted Moscow’s forces were driven away by Ukrainian strikes.]]> Mon, 04 Jul 2022 15:31:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGPvuYWHvoPiquT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGO5TrLjICGHgZs0ohxaO6Yr China has become an important destination for Russian oil as Moscow seeks to maintain flows following the fallout from its invasion of Ukraine.]]> Mon, 04 Jul 2022 12:03:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGO5TrLjICGHgZs0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGOhHVGWWVzE-uzdsCmHakzH The protests were prompted by planned constitutional changes that would have stripped the Karakalpakstan region of its autonomous status.]]> Mon, 04 Jul 2022 00:15:56 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGOhHVGWWVzE-uzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGMvRN3-VRHAFMb1naedg1wr The Russian ambassador has issued Bulgaria an ultimatum to reverse its decision and threatened that Moscow would fully sever diplomatic ties.]]> Sun, 03 Jul 2022 17:55:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGMvRN3-VRHAFMb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGPtI2oI73pxd-T5HJgy6HUf The move would be a decisive breakthrough for Russian troops seeking control of eastern Ukraine.]]> Sun, 03 Jul 2022 14:38:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGPtI2oI73pxd-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGOmrNK74uvCUps0ohxaO6Yr The Ukrainian president said it would require ‘colossal investments, billions, new technologies, best practices, new institutions’ to rebuild the country.]]> Sun, 03 Jul 2022 01:08:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGOmrNK74uvCUps0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGPIkj15nHCxHaCY3L745TL_ According to a cleric who attended the three-day meeting in Kabul, a statement urges the international community to recognise a Taliban-led Afghanistan and remove all sanctions.]]> Sat, 02 Jul 2022 20:56:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGPIkj15nHCxHaCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGPIX4Ly1S8J8cb1naedg1wr The overnight strikes hit civilian areas where there are no military facilities, Sloviansk Mayor Vadim Lyakh wrote on messaging service Telegram.]]> Sat, 02 Jul 2022 19:56:51 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGPIX4Ly1S8J8cb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGN9QElTukzrIiejEQ2Mq9rY Quakes, including two of 6.0 magnitude, happened in early hours; shocked residents fled or tried to recover items from what was left of their homes.]]> Sat, 02 Jul 2022 16:55:56 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGN9QElTukzrIiejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGPUcDeeg8NDbXn9ye8UNv30 Kyiv says Moscow has intensified its long-range missile attacks, hitting civilian targets far from the frontline. Russia says it has been aiming at military sites.]]> Sat, 02 Jul 2022 08:05:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGPUcDeeg8NDbXn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGPryWA2LM53QeT5HJgy6HUf While the Kremlin has remained largely silent about the moves by Asian states to impose sanctions on Russia, analysts say the region is not ruling out the possibility of a reprisal.]]> Sat, 02 Jul 2022 06:00:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGPryWA2LM53QeT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGN1dRcZ2Q4F9qCY3L745TL_ Use of these incendiary weapons against civilians is banned under an international convention but allowed for military targets.]]> Fri, 01 Jul 2022 23:33:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGN1dRcZ2Q4F9qCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGMPxocyGcm5CKCY3L745TL_ The famous beetroot soup is also popular in Russia, which decried the dish’s new protected status as an example of ‘contemporary Kyiv nationalism’.]]> Fri, 01 Jul 2022 20:06:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/2dUZqRvPEGMPxocyGcm5CKCY3L745TL_