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    Russia sends Cold War tanks to border for Ukraine rebels
    Jul15

    Russia sends Cold War tanks to border for Ukraine rebels

    Soviet tanks, armoured vehicles, rocket launchers, artillery and air defence systems from the Cold War are being stockpiled at the… …read more Source: The...

    United against Putin
    Jul15

    United against Putin

    Interview by Ewa Boniecka WBJ Observer: We are talking the day after Russia annexed the Crimea Peninsula and after a speech delivered by president Putin to the members of Russian parliament, in which he presented his plan for building a great Russia. Is this a turning point in international relations and does the West need a new policy regarding...

    Ukraine:  the fallout  for the Polish economy
    Jul15

    Ukraine: the fallout for the Polish economy

    How badly could the current crisis in Poland’s eastern neighbor affect businesses here? by Remi Adekoya The beginning of the 21st century was a golden era for Polish exports to Russia and Ukraine. In 2013, Poland exported goods worth €8.1 billion to Russia, a 6.1 percent increase in comparison with the previous year. Between 2000 and...

    Putin’s chief weapon is destabilising Kiev
    Jul15

    Putin’s chief weapon is destabilising Kiev

    Vladimir Putin cannot afford a politically embrarrassing rout of separatist rebels unless at least some of Russia’s underlying strategic goals are achieved in Ukraine …read more Source: Financial...

    Opinion: A chance for diplomacy in Ukraine crisis
    Jul15

    Opinion: A chance for diplomacy in Ukraine crisis

    Ukrainian troops have managed to push back separatists in eastern Ukraine. But the conflict can’t be solved by military force alone, writes DW’s Ingo Mannteufel. …read more Source: Deutsche...

    Warplane bombs town in east Ukraine
    Jul15

    Warplane bombs town in east Ukraine

    A warplane attacks a rebel-held town with rockets in eastern Ukraine, shattering homes and killing at least four people. …read more Source:...

    Soldiers killed in Ukraine, Kiev points at Moscow over air strike
    Jul15

    Soldiers killed in Ukraine, Kiev points at Moscow over air strike

    KIEV (Reuters) – At least six Ukrainian soldiers were killed in renewed attacks on government military posts and checkpoints by pro-Moscow separatists near the border with Russia, the Ukrainian military said on Tuesday. …read more Source:...

    Foreign minister flies to Ukraine amid Russian troop build up fears
    Jul15

    Foreign minister flies to Ukraine amid Russian troop build up fears

    Poland’s foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski is flying to Kiev for a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, as NATO says Russia has increased troop numbers along its border with Ukraine. …read more Source: Polskie Radio dla...

    Opinion: Repercussions of the Grand Duchy or public perception of the Ukrainian War in Lithuania
    Jul15

    Opinion: Repercussions of the Grand Duchy or public perception of the Ukrainian War in Lithuania

    Felix Ackermann Memory politics has everything to do with how the Lithuanian public perceives events in Ukraine that have dominated the local media and political discourse since last December, says Felix Ackermann, associate professor at Vilnius-based European Humanities University. A former fountain at the Seimas …The post Opinion:...

    ‘I was a separatist fighter in Ukraine’
    Jul15

    ‘I was a separatist fighter in Ukraine’

    Artur Gasparyan, 24, is from Spitak in Armenia. In May, he says he was recruited in Moscow to fight in eastern Ukraine. Now back in the Russian capital, he spoke to Mumin Shakirov About 10 guys showed up at a meeting somewhere near VDNKh [the All-Russian Exhibition Centre in northern Moscow]. We spoke in the entrance arch of a residential...