Anti-Russia sentiments danger to EU stability

Moscow, April 11: Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday warned that European stability was being threatened by rising anti-Russian sentiment over the Ukraine crisis.

“The current inflaming of anti-Russian sentiments takes place against the background of a spike of racism and xenophobia in many European countries, an increase in the number of ultra-radical groups and turning a blind eye to neo-Nazi phenomena, whether in Ukraine or elsewhere,” he said.

Russia’s top diplomat, quoted by the state RIA Novosti news agency, added that this “carries an obvious threat to European stability.” Mr Lavrov spoke after the US threatened more sanctions. — AFP London, April 11: An Indian-origin IT specialist at a bank was on Friday sentenced to life for brutally murdering his wife with a vaccum cleaner hose and then burning her body in a garden incinerator to prevent her from revealing he was gay.

Jasvir Ram Ginday, 29, attacked his wife Varkha Rani at their home with a metal pipe from a vacuum cleaner just six months after an arranged marriage ceremony in India.

He strangled the 24-yearold woman then burnt her body in the garden incinerator, telling a neighbour he had set fire to rubbish, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard.

Ginday had struggled “being a gay man in a straight world,” Judge John Warner told the court during his summing up. A jury of seven women and five men at Wolverhampton Crown Court took around 17 hours to find Ginday guilty of murder after a three-week trial. The court ruled that he will spend a minimum term of 21 years before parole. — PTI