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[Ticker] Ukraine puts military along Crimea border on alert
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko put the military on highest state of alert along the border with Crimea on Thursday after Russia accused Kiev of attempting incursions into the annexed region. The Russian security service said one of its officers was killed while arresting “terrorists” on the night of 6-7 August. Russia annexed...
Why Donald Trump is dangerous for Eastern Europe
The escalating situation in Crimea and the U.S. presidential campaign have more than a few things in common, but two of them are Russian President Vladimir Putin and a dearth of facts. It remains unclear exactly what happened on the occupied peninsula to trigger such a strident response from Russia, which accuses Ukraine of supporting terrorist...
Putin’s latest Crimean gambit
Curiously, it took Russia four full days after an alleged attack by Ukrainian special forces in Crimea to make a public statement about the event. On August 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin took to the airwaves to denounce “tactics of terrorism.” He stated the alleged killings of a soldier and an FSB security agency operative “will not pass...
Russia allegation pretext to war, says Ukraine president
A diplomatic flare-up between Ukraine and Russia risks igniting the flames of fighting, as Moscow accuses Kiev of orchestrating a plot to retake Crimea. …read more Source:...
Vladimir Putin accuses Ukraine of ‘terrorist attacks’
Tensions between Ukraine and Russia escalated sharply Wednesday after Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukrainian forces of attacking Russian troops occupying Crimea. Putin charged Ukraine with “practicing terror” and warned that he “obviously will not let such things slide by,” according to Russia’s RIA News. “This is a very...
Q&A: Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Donald Trump
Anders Fogh Rasmussen was NATO’s secretary general for five years until October 1, 2014. During his term, Europe dealt with Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of a regional war in eastern Ukraine. In an interview with POLITICO, the former Danish prime minister voiced concerns about U.S. commitment to its role as global...
Former NATO chief: Donald Trump is a global risk
PARIS — Donald Trump’s “America First” doctrine would weaken the United States and empower autocrats around the world, said former NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Trump, whom a group of 50 national security advisers have said would be a liability for U.S. security, has piled criticism on his country’s NATO partners in Europe,...
Kremlin: Russia and UK to ‘step up’ cooperation
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his British counterpart Prime Minister Theresa May spoke on the phone on Tuesday and “expressed dissatisfaction” about the state of their countries’ cooperation on political, trade and economic matters, the Kremlin announced in a statement. During the phone call, which, according to the Kremlin, was...
The Turkey-Russia reset
The failed coup in Turkey pushed Recep Tayyip Erdoğan into the arms of a man he now hails as a “valuable friend” but who was until recently a bitter enemy. Russo-Turkish relations had reached a new low following Turkey’s downing of a Russian jet in November 2015 — as Vladimir Putin coldly reminded his Turkish counterpart during their...
US to Turkey: Back off
The Obama administration has a message for Turkey: Tone it down. A day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressed frustration that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had yet to visit his country in the wake of a failed coup attempt, a State Department official said the U.S. is increasingly concerned about the language emanating from...
