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Putin tries to change the subject
Vladimir Putin has sought to shift the discourse over Russia’s aggression in Ukraine in recent days. His half-hour speech at the U.N. General Assembly last month, timed to reach a prime-time Russian audience, focused on the threats of terrorism and instability in Syria and the Middle East. The bloody war in Ukraine’s Donbas was an...
Putin putting his country in danger | The Times – United Kingdom
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Syrian war rebulilding old walls | Il Sole 24 Ore – Italy
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Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet wins Nobel peace prize
The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet has won the Nobel Peace Prize for its contribution to democracy in the wake of the country’s “Jasmine Revolution” in 2011, the Nobel Committee in Oslo announced Friday. “The Norwegian Nobel Committee hopes this year’s prize will contribute towards safeguarding democracy in Tunisia,” said Kaci...
The art of protest in Putin’s Russia
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — The masked men, one of whom was waving the Ukrainian flag, beat out a defiant rhythm on large sheets of corrugated metal, while black, acrid smoke from a nearby stack of burning tires drifted steadily into the early morning sky. This chaotic scene took place in February, 2014, and would have been a typical picture at...
A Nobel beacon for Belarus
BERLIN — For the world of literature, this year’s decision by the Nobel prize committee must be a bit of a surprise. After all, the short list was packed with heavyweights including Haruki Murakami, Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates. Yet it was the much less widely known Svetlana Alexievich from Belarus who carried the day for “her...
Mayor in Crimea extends warm invite to Donald Trump
Donald Trump has a friend in Crimea. More specifically, the mayor of Yalta, one of the disputed land mass’ resort cities, who would like the Republican presidential candidate to visit if he wins next year’s presidential election. “We are following the elections process in your country with great interest,” Andrey Rostenko wrote in a...
How to cooperate with Russia in Syria
Russia’s rapid military build-up in Syria and provocative initial actions — including airstrikes focused on U.S.-supported anti-Assad rebels and incursions into NATO ally Turkey’s airspace — pose a serious challenge to three key American goals: stabilizing Syria, containing ISIL, and constructing a durable balance of power in the...
Belarus’ Alexievich wins Nobel literature prize
Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, with the Swedish Academy citing her “polyphonic writing, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” Alexievich, who had been one of the bookies’ favorites to win last year when the prize went to France’s Patrick Modiano,...
Moscow’s Syria operations give Baltic a reprieve | Delfi – Lithuania
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