Announcement USA news: UKRAINE 5 articles, created at 2016-10-01 00:50 1 Tashkent Open Results TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) — Results Friday in the Tashkent Open: Kristyna Pliskova, Czech Republic, def. Kateryna Kozlova, Ukraine, 7-6 (2), 6-0. Nao Hibino... 2016-09-30 11:12 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk (0.01/1) 2 Think Russia isn’t directing rebels in Ukraine? Then read this about leaked emails Leaked emails reveal that Russia micromanaged the media strategy of separatists in Ukraine’s Donbas region. The detail w ith w hich the Russians guided the separatists contradicts Vladimir Putin’s claim that the rebels in Ukraine aren’t directed from Moscow. Anti-Americanism w as a strong theme of the Russians’ instructions. 2016-09-30 14:34 5KB www.thenewstribune.com 3 Czech PM tells Theresa May to act after linking the killing of Czech man with Brexit Czech prime minister Bohuslav Sobotka (pictured) has told Theresa May to take action after he linked the killing of a Czech national in London to Britain's Brexit vote. 2016-09-30 12:06 4KB www.dailymail.co.uk 4 EU loosens Ukraine trade quotas but keeps aid on hold By Matthias Williams KIEV, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The European Union has expanded the amount of produce Ukraine can export duty-free to the bloc as part of thei... 2016-09-30 11:36 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 5 Finns: The Dutch asked us to keep Buk missile test secret Finland's president says the Netherlands had asked the Nordic country to keep secret some tests it made w ith Russian-built missiles similar to the one believed to have dow ned a Malaysian passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014. 2016-09-30 11:33 1KB www.heraldonline.com Articles USA news: UKRAINE 5 articles, created at 2016-10-01 00:50 1 /5 Tashkent Open Results (0.01/1) TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) — Results Friday in the Tashkent Open: Kristyna Pliskova, Czech Republic, def. Kateryna Kozlova, Ukraine, 7-6 (2), 6-0. Nao Hibino (4), Japan, def. Denisa Allertova (9), Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-3. Demi Schuurs, Netherlands, and Renata Voracova (3), Czech Republic, def. Nigina Abduraimova, Uzbekistan, and Hiroko Kuwata, Japan, 7-6 (5), 6-3. Raluca Olaru, Romania, and Ipek Soylu (4), Turkey, def. Kristyna Pliskova, Czech Republic, and Amra Sadikovic, Switzerland, 7-5, 6-2. Chengdu Open Results dailymail.co.uk 2016-09-30 11:12 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk 2 /5 Think Russia isn’t directing rebels in Ukraine? Then read this about leaked emails The emails from Russia were pretty straightforward: The government in Kiev was to be referred to as fascist and compared to puppet dictatorships whenever possible. News reports were to mention as often as possible that the puppet master was the United States. For good measure, the Russian advisers even insisted that media handlers in the so-called “People’s Republic of Donetsk” provide a daily count of how many stories featured the phrase “It’s worse in Ukraine.” The leaked emails, which were acquired and are being reported on by the German magazine Die Zeit and Germany’s public television broadcaster, ZDF, provide hard evidence of how closely involved Russia is in the separatist movement at the heart of Ukraine’s so-called civil war, which has taken almost 10,000 lives since 2014. That runs counter to the narrative promoted by Russian President Vladmir Putin and other Russian officials. The emails, sent to the Donetsk and Luhansk information ministries – the two oblasts, or provinces, and main cities in the Ukrainian region known as Donbas – include instructions to the separatists to insist in local news reports and statements to foreign reporters that Ukraine downed Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in March 2014, killing 298 people. A report this week by an international team of prosecutors said the missile that struck the aircraft was a Russian BUK that had been brought into Ukraine from Russia in the hours before it was fired and that its launcher had returned to Russia afterward. Russia said the report was “politically motivated.” The emails make clear that the instructions on how to handle the Malaysia Airlines tragedy were far from an isolated attempt by Russia to direct how the separatists dealt with the news. Die Zeit said one of the emails even mentioned four Russian advisers by name, describing them as “technologists and media officers.” Half an hour later, a second email came through, asking the recipient to “please delete our last names.” Die Zeit, regarded as one of Germany’s most authoritative news outlets, reported it had been able to identify two of the advisers: Aleksander Pashin, a provincial propaganda worker from Murmansk, a city and oblast in the far north of Russia near Finland, and Andrey Godnev, a political adviser from Nizhni Novgorod, an oblast about 250 miles east of Moscow. Die Zeit, however, was unable to determine the current jobs of the other two advisers named, Andrey Tolmachyev and Yevgeny Morus. Beyond these four, the emails frequently included the abbreviation AP, a well-known shorthand in Russia for presidential administration. One of the emails included an attachment of a Luhansk information ministry manual on how to control and manipulate the media. The manual, titled “Strategy of internal information policy in the Luhansk People’s Republic,” listed its publication address as “Luhansk/Moscow.” In it, the separatists were told how to control the reporting of television and radio stations and of newspapers. The government in Kiev consistently was to be called “fascist.” Feature stories were to express the gratitude of Donetsk residents in simple terms. A grandmother should be seen knitting socks for Putin. Schoolchildren should be said to be drawing pictures of the Russian leader. Artists should be planning statues in his honor. News stories were to more directly serve the Russian narrative. “Experts analyze the situation in Ukraine, rate the Poroshenko regime, draw parallels to well-known right-wing radical regimes, including fascist and puppet dictatorships, and note that they are all controlled by the United States,” the manual said. Poroshenko is Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. A list of accepted experts to contact and quote was provided. They included Russian nationalist politicians, including some former Putin aides. There was also a list of accepted, and rejected, international news outlets. Good media were marked in green. Bad media were marked in red. The Associated Press and Reuters, for instance, were marked in red. An email on Jan. 25, 2015, to the information minister of the Donetsk Republic gave instructions that “by 6 pm every day submit your top five news stories. Give an account on how many items contain the term ‘It’s worse in the Ukraine.’ ” 2016-09-30 14:34 By Matthew www.thenewstribune.com 3 /5 Czech PM tells Theresa May to act after linking the killing of Czech man with Brexit The Czech prime minister has told Theresa May to take action after he linked the killing of a Czech national in London to Britain's Brexit vote. Bohuslav Sobotka phoned his British counterpart to say his country was 'disturbed by the increase in hateful attacks in Britain aimed at the citizens of EU member states' following the death of 31-year-old businessman Zdenek Makar last week. A 29-year-old Briton has been charged with his murder. Mr Makar was pronounced dead in the street near ALL Saints DLR station in Poplar, east London after a chicken shop brawl in London on September 21. Two others, a man aged 19 and a 16-year- old boy, have been bailed until early October pending further investigations. Mrs May sent her condolences to the Czech premier but Downing Street stressed that police did not consider racism to have been the motive. Speaking on the phone last night, Mr Sobotka told Mrs May: 'The Czech government finds it unacceptable to see Czechs attacked because of their origin and being treated as second-class citizens. 'Therefore I asked the British prime minister... to let me know what measures her government will adopt to stop these hateful attacks.' A Downing Street spokesperson said Mrs May told Mr Sobotka that 'while we understood this particular incident was not considered to be a hate crime, the UK Government condemned hate crime in the strongest way possible and it had no place in British society. The spokesperson added: 'They agreed that the UK and the Czech Republic enjoyed excellent bilateral relations and that the relationship would continue to go from strength to strength, particularly in defence and commercial areas.' The killing of the Czech national follows the murder of a Polish man in August. Police in Harlow, northeast of London, are investigating the August 27 murder of 40-year-old Polish factory worker Arek Jozwik as a possible hate crime although they have said the motive is still not clear. Earlier this month Mrs May expressed her "deep regret" over attacks on Polish citizens living in the UK in a phone call to her counterpart in Warsaw. The Prime Minister told Beata Szydlo that "hate crime has no place in UK society", Downing Street said. Two Polish officers also joined British police in the town after two Poles were also attacked outside a pub there on September 4. British police said in July that hate crimes surged before and after the June 23 referendum in which voters chose to exit the EU following a campaign dominated by a divisive debate about immigration. The latest figures from the National Police Chiefs' Council, released earlier this month, showed a 49 per cent rise in incidents in the last week in July, compared with the previous year.