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Ukraine and Russia in truck stand-off
Ukraine banned Russian trucks from crossing its territory Monday, following a similar move by Moscow over the weekend. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Monday that “madmen and bandits … are trying to stop our heavy goods vehicles,” after activists in western Ukraine began stopping trucks on Thursday. Russian trucks are now stopped in...
McCain: Putin using refugee crisis as a weapon
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to worsen the refugee crisis in order to split Europe and America and undermine the EU, U.S. Senator John McCain said Sunday. “Mr. Putin is not interested in being our partner,” the 2008 Republican presidential candidate and chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee told the Munich Security...
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[Opinion] Minsk 2: The big farce of Western policy on Russia
The New Year has begun with optimism that the Ukraine crisis will be solved quickly. But the solution appears to be on Russia’s terms and at the cost of Ukraine’s national interests. …read more Source:...
[Feature] Behind the scenes of the EU and IMF backlash on Ukraine
The IMF has joined the EU in piling on pressure for Ukraine to fight corruption. But the shock resignation of an EU fixer, which prompted the backlash, may not be all it seems. …read more Source:...
3 ways to stop ‘revisionist, militaristic’ Russia
MUNICH — The great and the good of the Atlantic security elites, and a few of their adversaries, face an unusually complex series of challenges as they gather for their annual summit in Munich this week. It was here, in February 2007, that President Vladimir Putin first threw down the gauntlet to the West, although his language was relatively...
NATO boots in Central Europe to tackle Russian threat
NATO will deploy troops to frontline states menaced by Russia’s actions in Ukraine, defense ministers agreed Wednesday, in what the head of the alliance called “the most significant boost to our collective defense since the end of the Cold War.” The alliance will not set up military bases in a bid to counter Russian military aggression, but...
IMF chief Lagarde warns Ukraine
Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, warned Ukraine Wednesday that unless the country cracks down on corruption and enacts promised reforms, it runs the risk of losing an IMF-led $40 billion bailout program crucial to saving the economy from collapse. “I am concerned about Ukraine’s slow progress in...
US spy chiefs predict Syria, Ukraine wars to drag on
The Syria war will get worse in 2016 and the Ukraine war won’t end, US intelligence chiefs have said, in what one of them called a “litany of doom.” …read more Source:...
German-Turkish refugee request ambushes NATO talks
Military alliances don’t like surprises, which is why NATO was taken aback by an apparently impromptu German and Turkish proposal that it should take on a new role in the refugee crisis, such as sea patrols against human traffickers in the Aegean. The initiative — fruit of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to Prime Minister Ahmet...
5 European cities on the migration frontline
Europe’s mayors are angry. On the frontline of the continent’s fight against migration, city leaders see national governments and the European Union drawing up plans to tackle the refugee crisis that do little, if anything, to protect their citizens. Some are taking matters into their own hands, and tapping into years of experience in...
