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France’s next big challenge: defense policy
PARIS — French voters face a stark choice on May 7 between retreating into isolationism or taking the lead in shaping a European defense policy to respond to Islamist terrorism, an unstable neighborhood, a resurgent Russia, an uncertain America and a rising China. France prizes its strategic autonomy but can no longer afford to go it...
Mogherini uses Moscow debut to chide Russia over Crimea
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told Russia’s Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Monday that the West would never recognize the Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea. Sitting beside the Russian foreign minister at a news conference, Mogherini rebuffed his assertion that the seizure of Crimea was justified by a need to protect...
Russia Again Confirms That It Sponsors Terrorism
The European Union has reacted strongly to the tragic death on Sunday April 23rd, of a US citizen, a paramedic attached to a Special Observation Mission of the European security watchdog, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Ukraine. Two other members of the Mission, one identified as German and Czech citizens, were...
Allegations of “clandestine network” in Council of Europe body
The European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center (ESISC) has published a report which alleges a “clandestine network” of MPs, Armenian officials and NGOs financed by the Soros Foundation within the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). According to the report, which builds on a previous “Armenian Connection” investigation...
Russia threat triggers European military spending hike
Russia’s annexation of Crimea in Ukraine has intensified military and defence spending throughout much of Central Europe, according to a new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Land mine kills OSCE observer in Ukraine
One American paramedic working with the European security watchdog, OSCE, was killed and two field officers – one German and the other Czech – were wounded when their vehicle struck a land mine on Sunday while on patrol in eastern Ukrainian. The area is controlled by Russia-backed separatists. It is the first death of an OSCE official...
Springtime for Russia’s dissident press
RIGA, Latvia — The Meduza Project, a Russian expatriate news site based in Latvia, is supposedly “an enemy of the Kremlin,†but its relaxed offices in downtown Riga look like those of any other internet startup. Fixed-gear bicycles are stacked in the foyer, hipsters in hoodies sit slumped over Macs with cool...
Blast in Eastern Ukraine kills one patrol team member, wounds two
A patrol member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe was killed and two were injured Sunday in a “serious security incident in Luhansk region” in Eastern Ukraine. The organization tweeted that two armored vehicles and six patrol members were involved in the incident. A Ukrainian foreign ministry official said the team...
Exxon Mobil Will Not Be Exempt From Russia Trade Sanctions
US oil giant Exxon Mobil will not be allowed to resume drilling in Russia after US President Donald Trump vowed to uphold sanctions, The BBC has reported. The US Treasury Department said that, after talks with Mr Trump, it would not waive trade sanctions on Russia for US firms seeking to restart work. It had been reported that Exxon, the...
Russian court bans Jehovah’s Witnesses
Russia’s supreme court ruled that Jehovah’s Witnesses was an “extremist” organization and ordered its headquarters near St. Petersburg to be shut down, Reuters reported Thursday. The court received the request to ban the group from the justice ministry, according to the AP. Russian news agency Interfax reported a justice ministry...
