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      Ukrainian Men’s Travel Ban News Debunked as Fake by Military
      Nov20

      Ukrainian Men’s Travel Ban News Debunked as Fake by Military

      Ukrainian military warns: if you’ve been naughty and have been spreading rumors, Santa isn’t coming by! Images mixed by Tetyana Lokot. On November 19, Ukrainian men woke up to discover that if they were under 45, they would now apparently have to cancel their travel plans for the start of 2016, as Ukraine was banning them from leaving...

      Only realpolitik can help against IS | Lidové noviny – Czech Republic
      Nov20

      Only realpolitik can help against IS | Lidové noviny – Czech Republic

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      Don’t trade Ukraine for Syria, says Foreign Minister
      Nov20

      Don’t trade Ukraine for Syria, says Foreign Minister

      Latvia’s Foreign Minister, Edgars Rinkevics, on Friday issued a reminder to Europe not to forget the conflict in eastern Ukraine – and not to weaken sanctions against Russia in order to win its cooperation in Syria. …read more Source:...

      Lithuania’s property developer Hanner set to spin off part of its business
      Nov20

      Lithuania’s property developer Hanner set to spin off part of its business

      Hanner, a leading Lithuanian property development group with operations in Lithuania, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia and Romania, plans to spin its cash flow generating projects off into a new company named Hanner RE in an effort to streamline its business, reports LETA/BNS. …read more Source: The Baltic...

      Playing with fire in Donbass
      Nov19

      Playing with fire in Donbass

      Most tanks have apparently been withdrawn from the buffer zone in eastern Ukraine but not the heavy artillery, complains the OSCE. The truce is still on shaky ground. DW’s Frank Hofmann reports from Kyiv. …read more Source: Deutsche...

      The politics of corruption in Kiev
      Nov19

      The politics of corruption in Kiev

      KIEV — The former head of Ukraine’s state security service, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, arrived in Washington D.C. Thursday to deliver his scathing assessment of the country’s post-revolutionary law-enforcement to the U.S. Congress. Sources close to Nalyvaichenko say the visit is part of a bid to win American backing for a challenge to...

      Beating the Islamist propagandists
      Nov19

      Beating the Islamist propagandists

      Barely 12 hours had passed since the siege on Paris’ Bataclan theater ended and already the propagandists of the Islamic State had put together audio and textual statements claiming responsibility for the attack, in French, Arabic and English. Within minutes, tens of thousands of people had seen their audacious, gloating claim. Within...

      Belarus Refused To Deliver Berkut Officer To Ukraine
      Nov19

      Belarus Refused To Deliver Berkut Officer To Ukraine

      18 former members of Berkut riot police are wanted on charges of crimes against Euromaidan. …read more Source:...

      Exclusive: EU’s Juncker dangles trade ties with Russia-led bloc to Putin
      Nov19

      Exclusive: EU’s Juncker dangles trade ties with Russia-led bloc to Putin

      VILNIUS (Reuters) – European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker wrote to Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, suggesting closer trade ties between the 28-nation EU and a Russian-led economic bloc, linking them to progress on implementing a ceasefire in Ukraine. …read more Source:...

      Is Ukraine finally getting to grips with its corruption problem?
      Nov19

      Is Ukraine finally getting to grips with its corruption problem?

      Two years of war, illness and economic pain has followed Ukraine’s revolution, and reforms are still slow to arrive. If you want to know why Ukraine had a revolution, consider this: it has one of the world’s fastest-growing HIV epidemics, and yet officials deliberately overcharged their own health ministry for anti-retrovirals to make...