Section: Daily Maverick (South Africa)
Football: Russian MPs slam FIFA for ‘missing Crimea’ on World Cup shirts
A Russian lawmaker on Tuesday vowed to complain to world football’s ruling body FIFA for selling 2018 World Cup T-shirts that show a map of host Russia without Crimea. …read more Source: Daily...
ICG: Ukraine’s Eastern separatist leaders turn on each other
The one-year-old Minsk peace process is bogged down and artillery duels are picking up. But the leadership of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), the larger of eastern Ukraine’s two separatist statelets, is immersed in other struggles. Top leaders are fighting to break the political and economic power of one of their own: Alexander...
Book review: The official incompetence, laziness and cronyism – behind the nightmare of Chernobyl
Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich’s devastating “Voices from Chernobyl – The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster”, is a towering work not only about the devastating effects on the lives of ordinary people who survived the 1986 nuclear accident in the Ukraine, but also of government incompetence, cruelty, lies and official cover-up. While...
ICG: Syrian gambit will not erase Putin’s Ukraine problem
If Russia really wants to pull out of Ukraine, it has to wind up a small but stubborn political local leadership and a quite large militia structure of at least 20,000 fighters. It will discover that separatist leaders have developed their own, usually corrupt, interests, and may not go quietly, and that fighters, abandoned to their own...
The Ukraine crisis and European stability: Ten possible steps toward a solution
The crisis in Ukraine presents one of the gravest threats to global order in the past quarter century. Military action by Russia against Ukraine is a breach of international law and a violation of the terms of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994. It pits Moscow directly against Western powers at a time of deep instability in other parts of the world,...
The Betrayers: A fiction too close to plausible reality for comfort
One time New Yorker 20 under 40 notable David Bezmozgis has written the most inflammatory new novel of the year. (Russians! Jews! Ukraine! Israel!) RICHARD POPLAK peeks between the covers to see what all the fuss is about. …read more Source: Daily...
