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Strains test EU, U.S. unity on Russia
WASHINGTON — When the U.S. Treasury Department’s top sanctions official visits Europe this week, he’ll get one more chance to urge Europeans to renew the punishing sanctions regime against Russia. By all accounts, he won’t need it. It’s a point of pride among U.S. and European officials that in an otherwise fractious...
Joe Biden: Corruption eating Ukraine ‘like a cancer’
“Corruption eats Ukraine like cancer,” U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told that country’s parliament Tuesday. Addressing the Verkhovna Rada in Kiev, Biden said Ukraine needed to do more to fight corruption, or else risk losing international support. The U.S. pledged $190 million in extra aid to Ukraine Monday, but Biden warned it had only...
Biden gives Ukraine ‘one more chance’ to reform
The United States pledged an extra $190 million in aid to Ukraine Monday, but Vice President Joe Biden warned that Kiev has just “one more chance” to root out corruption or lose the funding. Biden held talks with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, pledging support for Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression and urging the country’s...
Ukraine ‘3%’ away from EU visa-free green light
EU warns Ukraine on anti-corruption reforms ahead of visa-free report. Ukraine more interested in stopping German-Russian gas pipe. …read more Source:...
Vladimir Putin: ‘No touching, licking or biting’
Some may find Vladimir Putin and his policies hard to swallow, but that’s not a problem with a life-sized chocolate statue of the Russian president. Artist Nikita Gusev created the 154-pound statue as part of the Festival of Chocolate fair in St. Petersburg. It shows Putin alongside his dog Connie. The artist says chocolate is the perfect...
Pentagon to boost its EU budget in response to Russian threat
The U.S. Department of Defense plans to increase its budget for operations in Europe “significantly” to protect the country and its allies from threats by Russia. Funding for the European Reassurance Initiative, a 2014 program under which U.S. exercises in the region have been increased following the invasion in Ukraine, will be “ramped up” in...
[Opinion] Ukraine: Notes from a European construction site
Ukraine today resembles a giant construction site. Many of its achievements are unseen. Many still left to build. But its people deserve Europe’s support, writes its ambassador to the EU. …read more Source:...
Life in Ukraine’s buffer zone
The front line of the war in eastern Ukraine divides towns, villages and even families into Ukrainian territory or rebel territory. On each side, stretching for 15 kilometers, is the internationally-agreed buffer zone — an allegedly demilitarized area created as part of the second Minsk peace deal in February. On a map, the buffer zone straddles...
Washington’s Balkan power play
BELGRADE — NATO’s invitation to Montenegro this week to join the military alliance was more than a kindness to a small ex-Yugoslav republic. It was another sign of a battle for influence in the Balkans between Russia and the U.S. And America is the one on the offensive. In recent weeks high-level U.S. and NATO officials have visited the...
A Ukrainian oligarch’s foiled homecoming
A controversial Ukrainian powerbroker’s rehabilitation campaign is hitting unexpected snags. Dmytro Firtash, the exiled oligarch who wants to make a comeback at home, was forced to cancel plans to return to Kiev this week after a government minister said the businessman would be arrested if he set foot in Ukraine. Firtash called the...
