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Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political and non-religious international aid organization. Our teams are committed to supporting civilians’ victims of marginalization and exclusion, or hit by natural disasters, wars and economic collapses, by answering their fundamental needs. Our aim is to provide emergency relief to uprooted people in order to help them recover their dignity and regain self-sufficiency. The association leads in average 190 projects by year in the following sectors of intervention: food security, health, nutrition, construction and rehabilitation of infrastructures, water, sanitation, hygiene and economic recovery. PUI is providing assistance to around 5 million people in 20 countries – in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe and France.
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A Ukrainian soldier at fighting positions on the line of separation from pro-Russian rebels near Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, April 19, 2021. Photo: AP IT was one of the shortest and most bizarre conflicts I’ve ever covered as a war correspondent. In all it lasted no more than 10 days and seemed to have come out of nowhere catching the West by surprise, but it shouldn’t have. I’m speaking of the war back in 2008 that broke out between Russia and Georgia in the separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia with each side accusing the other of starting hostilities. It may have been short, but it still cost hundreds of lives, displaced tens of thousands and left both territories in a tense standoff to this day. It was in effect Russia’s first successful military action outside of its border since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
View: How India can help US and Russia maintain Cold Peace
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View: How India can help US and Russia maintain Cold Peace By Dr. Nalin Kumar Mohapatra, ET CONTRIBUTORS
Last Updated: Apr 22, 2021, 08:14 PM IST
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One has to underline here that instead of “New Cold War” the phrase “Cold Peace” needs to be highlighted more emphatically to characterise the present day state of global politics.
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Russia and US relationship stands apart largely due to perceptional differences over global and regional issues. This is promoting strategic apprehension from both the sides and contributing to the present strategic impasse. At the same time, some of these standoffs are also contributing to the existing “Cold Peace” which is prevalent among these two countries.
Putin says ready to meet with Zelensky in Moscow
Vladimir Putin. Photo courtesy of TASS
MOSCOW, 22 April (BelTA) – We are ready to welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin told journalists during the meeting with Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko in Moscow on 22 April, BelTA has learned.
Earlier, Volodymyr Zelensky suggested his Russian counterpart that they hold talks in Donbass to discuss settling the conflict in that region.
“As for the suggestion of the Ukrainian authorities and Volodymyr Zelensky, I would like to point out that the Ukrainian authorities have recently taken many steps that are detrimental to the Ukrainian-Russian relations,” Vladimir Putin said. According to him, this directly concerns several problems in the bilateral relations, the attitude of the Ukrainian authorities to the Russian Orthodox Church and actual attempts to destroy it as well as their treatment of the Russian language, Russian-sp
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