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Black Sea woes
In memory of a murderous fire ALMOST exactly a year ago, on May 2nd 2014, two groups of protesters clashed in central Odessa. A heady post-revolutionary haze hung over Ukraine. A weak government had taken power in Kiev after the Maidan protests had forced President Viktor Yanukovych to flee the country. Russia had annexed Crimea and pro-Russian...
Letters to the editor
To the editors: I read with great interest your article on the fate of British officials working in the EU institutions in the event of a “Brexit” scenario (“Have Passport, Will Stay“). The article raises a number of interesting issues. It misses, however, an important point: the fate of British citizens who are getting a pension from the pension...
The Ossification of Germany
BERLIN — After the Berlin Wall came down, the West Germans liked to call the East Germans Ossis, or, better still, Jammer-Ossis. It was a derogatory term, meant to characterize East Germans as whiney and ungrateful. The East Germans, for their part, called the West Germans Besser-Wessis, a pun on the word Besserwisser, which means...
Visions of Britain
LONDON — Behind the sturm und drang of an election campaign, the leaders of Britain’s parties offer strikingly different visions. Ed Miliband wants a Swedish Britain Labour want Britain to be fully European — but outside the eurozone — more active in Eastern Europe and less beholden to Washington. His vision at home is constitutional reform...
Donbas: A new ‘black hole’ in Europe
Larceny, human rights abuses, and war damage in east Ukraine point to the creation of a new “black hole” in Europe. …read more Source:...
Belarus president against splitting Great Patriotic War victory among nationalities
“There is a simple answer to these slurs: the Nazi were destroyed not by Russians and Belarusians, not by Ukrainians and Georgians, not by Kazakhs and Uzbeks. The Great Victory was gifted to us by the great Soviet nation!” stressed Alexander Lukashenko. …read more Source:...
Renewed Russia fears bolster Komorowski in Poland’s presidential race
WARSAW (Reuters) – Buoyed by his strong defense background and Poles’ renewed fear of Russia stoked by the Ukraine crisis, Bronislaw Komorowski looks likely to win the first round of Poland’s presidential election on Sunday. …read more Source:...
Lukashenko: Belarus is ready to do everything necessary for peace in Ukraine
“Belarus has already done a lot for the sake of re-establishing peace in Ukraine. And we are ready to do more than that. We are ready to do everything necessary to stop the war. If we, Slavonic people, fail to come to terms, fail to decide what we should do, no one else will be able to help us,” stated Alexander Lukashenko. …read more...
Serbian FM won’t travel to Kiev after “change of format”
Ukraine has “changed the format” of its marking of the anniversary of WW2 victory over fascism, and Serbian FM Ivica Dacic will not be attending. The Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that “the celebration (in Kiev) will be organized on the diplomatic, instead of on the political level.” Serbian...
Carl Bildt shows modern military hardware from Russia in Donbas
Carl Bildt, a former foreign minister of Sweden, derides the statements by the Russian authorities that Russian volunteers fight in Donbas. …read more Source:...
