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Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Russian parliament, will travel to Cuba for Fidel Castro’s funeral in place of President Vladimir Putin.

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There were no casualties reported today by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, but fighting remained intense particularly around Mariupol. Ukrainians marked the 82nd anniversary of Stalin’s terror-famine, known as the Holodomor.

Polls show President Vladimir Putin’s rating is falling though it remains high relative to other Russian institutions; the reason is a slow but steady loss of faith in state TV and switch to Internet news.

Putin and Obama traded ‘cold stares’ as they met on the margins of the APEC meeting in Lima. Putin said strikes were ‘permissible’ on NATO sites that ‘threaten Russia’.

One Ukrainian soldier and one civilian woman were wounded in shelling in southeastern Ukraine today.

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Heavy fighting continued in southeastern Ukraine today, on par with the escalation in the last week, with 6 Ukrainian soldiers wounded in Avdeyevka, northwest of Donetsk. There were unconfirmed reports of 3 Russia-backed fighters killed and 2 wounded.

Aleksei Ulyukayev, the Russian Minister for Economic Development, was arrested late last night, charged with receiving a $2 million bribe for endorsing the sale of a controlling interest in the oil company Bashneft to Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil company.

Pro-Russian leaders have been elected in Bulgarian and Moldova, although the Kremlin denies it. Michael McFaul, former US ambassador to Moscow has been denied entry to Russia.