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Russia says arms for Kiev won’t help solve Ukraine crisis: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A deputy Russian foreign minister declared on Tuesday that supplying weapons to Kiev would not help solve a crisis in east Ukraine, after the White House said U.S. President Barack Obama would sign corresponding legislation this week. …read more Source:...
The Ferguson Protests are Actually About Russia (According to the RuNet)
Image by hans peter meyer on Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Late on Monday, a St. Louis County grand jury made the decision not to indict Darren Wilson, a Ferguson, Missouri police officer in the August killing of teenager Michael Brown. The controversial decision and the unfolding situation in Ferguson generated much discussion on social media in the...
Obama ‘intends to’ sign new Russian sanctions bill – video
A White House spokesman says the US president will likely sign a bill implementing new sanctions on Russia by the end of the week. The Ukraine Freedom Support Act was passed by Congress on Saturday, and will see more pressure put on Vladimir Putin. Josh Earnest moved on to offer condolences to those affected by the Taliban attack at a school in...
US risks EU rift on new Russia sanctions
Obama sets stage for tougher set of Iran-style penalties if Ukraine crisis escalates …read more Source: Financial...
With Blood New and Old, Ukraine’s Next Parliament Is Sworn In
A screencapture of new Ukrainian Parliament members reading the oath. A new Ukrainian Parliament gathered for its first plenary session on November 27, 2014. The Rada’s 418 members were elected in the October 26 snap elections, the first to take place since the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and...
Tripoli-based government releases foreign airmen held in Libya
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s rival government released four air crew members from Ukraine, Russia and Tajikistan who had flown into the North African country from the United Arab Emirates without permission, officials said on Tuesday. …read more Source:...
US ‘Gives Ukraine Weapons Via Bulgaria’
A Bulgarian company is helping the United States to export arms to Ukraine, Russian-language media outlets claim. Bulkomers KS EOOD “has made an attractive offer to Kiev: [Ukraine was offered] to buy a lethal weapon, namely M107A1 and 82A1 rifles” with a training on their use included, according to the website LifeNews. It is...
Russia hikes interest rate to 17 PER CENT in effort to prevent collapse of rouble
The announcement was made at 1am Moscow time and comes after the rouble’s value sunk 50 per cent since January – battered by plunging global oil prices and Western sanctions over Ukraine. …read more Source: Daily...
Wrecking Russia’s economy could be a disaster for the west | Angus Roxburgh
It’s sheer folly to hope that the country is destabilised and Vladimir Putin overthrown. We’ve no idea what the outcome would beLike a rudderless ship running out of fuel and buffeted in an icy storm, the Russian economy looks as if it is heading for a crash. All the graphs – the rouble-dollar rate, the slump in GDP, bank interest...
David Cameron blames Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine aggression for Russia’s economic crisis
The Central Bank of Russia raised interest rates from 10.5% to a staggering 17% in a doomed bid to halt the currency’s decline …read more Source:...
