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Ukraine visa deal hangs in the balance
A row over the introduction of a computer system for officials to declare their interests threatens to torpedo Ukraine’s visa deal with the EU. …read more Source:...
Mikhail Baryshnikov: Trump’s rhetoric ‘reminds me of the Soviet Union’
Mikhail Baryshnikov sees flashes of the Soviet Union’s hammer and sickle in Donald Trump’s rhetoric. The legendary Russian-American dancer, choreographer and actor warned of the danger posed by Trump in a new video released Wednesday in which he endorsed Hillary Clinton and ripped into the Republican nominee as reminiscent of...
A new EU Security Strategy: towards a militarised Europe?
“Europe has never been so prosperous, so secure nor so free”. It was 2003 and those were the words introducing the self-congratulatory EU Security Strategy that set the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) guidelines for the next 13 years. The former High Representative (HR), Javier Solana, drafted it to tackle indirect and external threats,...
Steinmeier: Germany ‘worried’ about spike in Crimea tensions
The German and Russian foreign ministers have called for restraint amidst increasing friction in Crimea, Deutsche Welle reports. “In recent days there has been a spike in tensions around Crimea and that has worried us,” Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany’s foreign minister, said at a joint press conference Monday with his Russian counterpart...
Trump’s new normal
Donald Trump again blamed U.S. President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the rise of ISIS. He questioned his opponent’s “physical stamina” to eradicate the terrorist group. And he again interspersed what his campaign hyped as a major foreign policy speech — his third to date — with falsehoods and half-truths, promising an end to nation...
Donald Trump struggles for a campaign reset
New revelations about the foreign financial ties of Donald Trump’s campaign chairman are threatening to steal the thunder from the Republican presidential nominee’s much-hyped foreign policy speech, adding to the turmoil that has engulfed his presidential bid. Paul Manafort on Monday blasted a New York Times report that detailed...
Donald Trump to urge ideological test for immigrants
Donald Trump is expected on Monday to propose screening immigrants with an ideological questionnaire. According to The Associated Press, the Republican presidential nominee plans to present a proposal during an address in Youngstown, Ohio, to create an ideological admissions test that would question potential immigrants on positions such as...
Trump campaign chair denies he accepted Ukraine cash payments
Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, slammed the New York Times Monday on the morning after the newspaper published a story reporting that secret ledgers in Ukraine show more than $12 million in cash earmarked for him. The report states that the political party of former Ukraine president and pro-Russia ally Viktor Yanukovych...
Russia’s season of menace
MOSCOW — August in Moscow is a season of brooding heat broken by sudden rainstorms, of bathing in chilly rivers and experiencing pangs of regret for a summer that never quite happened. Also, it’s Russia’s traditional season of disaster. The hard-line coup attempt that brought the fall of Communism in 1991, the default and financial...
Vladimir Putin switches chief of staff
Vladimir Putin has replaced his chief of staff, Sergei Ivanov, the Kremlin announced Friday, adding the move came at Ivanov’s request. Ivanov’s deputy, Anton Vaino, will become the new head of Putin’s office, according to a transcript of a meeting between the trio, released by the Kremlin. “I remember very well our agreement...
