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Russia And Ukraine Conflict

MH17
Job ID. PD277292. PM and Angus Houston Presser. The Prime Minister Tony Abbott with the Chief Coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, Air Chief Angus Houston at a joint press conference in Parliament House in Canberra. Pic by: Gary Ramage

Houston fears no MH17 justice

The man who oversaw Australia’s response to the MH17 crash says it will be hard to bring those responsible to justice.

Review
Andrei Bondarenko plays the Count from OA's production of Marriage of Figaro, premiering soon in Sydney. Pictured at Opera Australia in Sydney.

Up for the count

Meet Andrei Bondarenko, the rising Ukrainian opera star in Sydney to sing the role of the Count in The Marriage of Figaro.

Review
A scene from the film, The Tribe.

Prepare to be lost for words

There’s sex and violence in abundance and all dialogue is in Ukrainian sign language — without subtitles. The film? The Tribe.

G20
In this photo released by G20 Australia and taken on Saturday Nov 15, 2014, Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott and President of Russia Vladimir Putin hold koala's during a photo opportunity on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia. (AP Photo/G20 Australia,Andrew Taylor)

Putin gets short shrift

CONFRONTATIONS with world leaders have piled new pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to withdraw his country’s troops from Ukraine.

Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop addressing the National Press Club in Canberra.

ABC skit hurtful: Bishop

THE grieving families of those who died on flight MH17 would have been “devastated’’ by the ABC’s Chaser-style skit, Julie Bishop says.

G20
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with young scientists at the Russian Experimental Physics Institute in the Sarov nuclear center, former Arzamas-16, in Sarov near Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Door open for Putin at G20

VLADIMIR Putin will be invited to the G20 summit in Brisbane despite Australia’s strong criticism of Russia’s support for separatist rebels in Ukraine.

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