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‘I’m gay in Ukraine and my country despises me’
KIEV — In my long struggle to both be true to myself and to my homeland I always lose. I still hope to see a ray of light. Sometimes I do. Like during a groundbreaking — for Ukraine — queer art-show that opened in Kiev in October. This is the first time that an LGBTI-themed installation occupies the most popular modern art space in the country....
Putin agrees with Hollande to focus strikes on ISIL
Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Thursday with his French counterpart François Hollande that both countries’ air strikes in Syria should be focused on Islamic State (ISIL) and other “terrorist” movements. In what is likely to be hailed in Paris as a major diplomatic breakthrough, both countries also agreed to exchange information...
Nina Khrushcheva on reconciliation with Russia | Die Presse – Austria
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With terror on your doorstep, you still need bread
On Saturday morning, a little over a week after the Paris attacks and the first day of the Brussels lockdown, we discuss survival strategies over our first cup of tea of the day. “I’d play dead,” I tell my husband Joe. I would try to hide under a body, I think to myself, but don’t say it out loud because I’m ashamed. Then I...
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[Ticker] Ukraine airspace closed to Russian planes, gas flow stops
Gazprom shut off gas supplies to Ukraine on Wednesday because of payment issues, according to Alexei Miller, the chief of the Russian company. According to Ukrainian PM Yatsenyuk, however, Ukraine itself decided to stop buying Russian gas. Yatsenyuk also announced Ukraine would close its airspace to Russian planes. …read more Source:...
Karabakh’s soccer refugees take on Europe
AUTHOR’S NOTE: “Qarabağ Futbol Klubu” is the Azerbaijani name for the soccer team from the town of Ağdam that is the subject of this piece. “Qarabağ” is the original Azerbaijani spelling of the mountainous region of western Azerbaijan that is usually rendered as “Karabakh’ in English. In this piece, “Qarabağ” will be used throughout...
Hollande’s ‘grand coalition’ bends to Syrian realpolitik
PARIS — François Hollande is realizing this week that his plans to build a “grand and unique” international coalition to fight ISIL may have to be pared down. In Washington on Tuesday, the French president met a Barack Obama who pledged to increase U.S. military cooperation with France but didn’t seem to jump at the prospect of joining it...
Putin will stick with anti-terror coalition | Tages-Anzeiger – Switzerland
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Putin is testing our resolve
If the Turkish military shoot-down of a Russian SU-24 fighter aircraft is a “stab in the back” as President Vladimir Putin characterized it on Tuesday, then the knife wound came after some very loud footsteps from behind and shouts of “Here I come!” Following recent Russian incursions into Turkish airspace, in other words, no one should be...
Security leaders: NATO, Russia need to talk
The downing of a Russian fighter jet by Turkey highlights the growing danger posed by a pattern of provocative military behavior by Moscow, U.S. and European security officials said Tuesday, calling for a revival of military-to-military talks between Russia and NATO that were shelved last year. The first-ever shoot-down of a Russian plane by a...
