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MH17 ‘shot down by Russian-made missile’
Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 crashed after being hit by a Russian-made missile, according to a Dutch investigation into the disaster in July last year. The Dutch Safety Board (DSB), unveiling its report Tuesday, said a Buk missile hit the front left-hand side of the plane, which was flying over eastern Ukraine on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala...
EU must not lift sanctions against Belarus | Expressen – Sweden
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Juncker putting Crimea annexation behind him | Contributors.ro – Romania
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Rift in Obama administration over Putin
Vladimir Putin’s intervention in Syria is creating new rifts inside an exhausted and in some cases demoralized Obama national security team, where officials pushing for bolder action see the president as stubbornly unwilling to assume new risk as he nears his final year in office. Current and former Obama officials say the president’s...
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[Ticker] Dutch report into MH17 disaster due at 12.15 today
The Dutch Safety Board will at 12.15 local time today, at the Gilze-Rijen military base in the Netherlands, issue its final report into the cause of the MH17 flight disaster over Ukraine last year. The Dutch PM will hold a press conference shortly afterwards. Russia says the enquiry is flawed. …read more Source:...
Republic of Lukashenko
In Sunday’s presidential elections in Belarus, the incumbent Alexander Lukashenko claimed an overwhelming victory and secured his fifth term in office. This was hardly surprising — over two decades of one-man rule, political opposition has been eliminated, society has turned apathetic, and elections have become a farce. But the recent...
The Putin adoration society
RHODES, Greece — Every October, Kremlin sympathizers gather on this mythical Greek island. This year’s edition, coming amidst political ructions in Moscow and Russia’s surprise intervention in Syria, had an unusual flavor. The patron of the Dialogue of Civilizations forum, held annually here since 2003, is Vladimir Yakunin, until...
Losing control in the Caucasus
Nagorno-Karabakh, the former Soviet Union’s oldest and most dangerous conflict, is waking up again. The 1994 ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan is under severe strain. Where there was occasional sniper fire two years ago, mortars are now being fired. Rockets are raining down on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border and the ceasefire line east...
Cameron and Merkel break bread over Brexit
German Chancellor Angela Merkel dined with British Prime Minister David Cameron at his Chequers retreat Friday to discuss the status of reforms the U.K. will seek before an in-or-out vote on its EU membership. The two leaders also discussed other issues, including Europe’s response to the crisis in Syria and the situation in Ukraine. “The...
An election on the balcony of the ‘Russian world’
MINSK — Belarusians go to the ballot boxes Sunday to elect their president. It won’t be a European-style election. An unexpected outcome is out of the question. The Central Election Committee chairman has been personally picked by President Aleksander Lukashenko, and its composition has remained unchanged since 1996, although since then...
