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      Senate Confirms Eric Rubin as New US Ambassador to Bulgaria
      Dec10

      Senate Confirms Eric Rubin as New US Ambassador to Bulgaria

      The Senate confirmed on Wednesdy Eric Seth Rubin as the new US ambassador to Bulgaria. This was announced by the US embassy in Sofia in its Facebook profile. The hearing of the nominee before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was held on December 2., with US President Barack Obama having appointed Rubin in September.Rubin is a career member...

      Ukraine says breaks up armed insurgent group in Kiev, two killed
      Dec10

      Ukraine says breaks up armed insurgent group in Kiev, two killed

      KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s security service said on Thursday it had broken up an armed insurgent group that operated out of Kiev and other major Ukrainian cities and that two people had been killed during the operation. …read more Source:...

      [Investigation] The Donbass Paradox
      Dec10

      [Investigation] The Donbass Paradox

      Over half of major enterprises in Ukraine separatist zone of Donetsk and Luhansk “closed or seized”. …read more Source:...

      Twelve things you need to know about Brexit
      Dec10

      Twelve things you need to know about Brexit

      © illustrations by Tom Saffill The referendum on whether the UK will leave the European Union is likely to turn, in the end, on whether its interest in free trade with the continent will outweigh public hostility to unimpeded immigration from there. It may be a close call. Britain’s political elite has long prided itself on its embrace of...

      UN: Militants, ammunition and arms continue to enter Ukraine from Russia
      Dec10

      UN: Militants, ammunition and arms continue to enter Ukraine from Russia

      Weaponry and militants – including in some cases retired or former servicemen of the Russian Federation – continue to flow into rebel-seized areas of eastern Ukraine from Russia, a United Nations report stated on December 9. …read more Source: Baltic News...

      [Opinion] Russia, IS: EU values under attack
      Dec10

      [Opinion] Russia, IS: EU values under attack

      If the EU doesn’t support the Ukrainian people in their fight for freedom it not only betrays their belief in us, but the very values the EU is meant to uphold. …read more Source:...

      The big ideas of 2016: growth of the Anglosphere/decline of the Brics
      Dec10

      The big ideas of 2016: growth of the Anglosphere/decline of the Brics

      Read the rest of Prospect‘s big ideas of 2016 here. Prepare for a return of the old economic order. In the coming year, growth in Britain and the United States will be steady, unemployment will decline, interest rates will rise and there may even be a pinch of inflation. And while the “Anglo-Saxon” model delivers this welcome result, the...

      Russia threatens to sue Ukraine
      Dec09

      Russia threatens to sue Ukraine

      Legal battle over repayment of $3bn in debt …read more Source: Financial...

      Diplomat Magazine: Three Women from E. Europe in Race for UN’s Top Job
      Dec09

      Diplomat Magazine: Three Women from E. Europe in Race for UN’s Top Job

      For the first time since the creation of the United Nations 70 years ago, female candidates are being mentioned among the likely successors of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Venetia van Kuffeler writes in an article in the December-January issue of London-based Diplomat magazine. Bulgarian-born Irina Bokova and Kristalina Georgieva as well as...

      Russia wants fair rules on sovereign debt
      Dec09

      Russia wants fair rules on sovereign debt

      Moscow has no desire to see IMF stop Ukraine’s funding but it has concerns, writes Anton Siluanov …read more Source: Financial...