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Can Ukraine save itself from Vladimir Putin and the oligarchs? | Timothy Garton Ash
In Kiev, I see signs of a nation being forged in bitter conflict. But it’ll require a heroic effort to succeed‘Welcome to the nation state of Ukraine,” says Mustapha Dzhemilev, a diminutive, soft-spoken 71-year-old leader of the Crimean Tatars, gentle on the outside, hard as steel within. He was deported from Crimea on Stalin’s orders...
Europe must not treat Ukraine like another Greece | George Soros
An EU divided between Russian and US influence, abandoning its values and its political force in the world: this will be the inevitable result if its current Ukraine policy prevailsThe European Union stands at a crossroads. The shape it takes five years from now will be decided in the coming 35 months. Year after year, the EU has successfully...
Moscow condemns ‘anti-Russian campaign’ in U.S.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia expressed outrage on Friday over a “frenzied anti-Russian campaign” by U.S. media and political analysts, stepping up a war of words that has intensified during the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source:...
Silencing of Crimean Tatar TV sparks outcry from rights bodies, Ukraine, Turkey
KIEV (Reuters) – The silencing of a TV station for the Tatar people in Crimea, annexed by Russia from Ukraine a year ago, sparked an outcry on Friday, with Kiev accusing Moscow of trying to stamp out non-Russian influence on the peninsula. …read more Source:...
Russia, Greece to discuss EU sanctions, economy in Moscow
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras plan to discuss economic ties and the European Union’s sanctions against Moscow when they meet for talks next week, a Kremlin spokesman said on Friday. …read more Source:...
Turkey decries rights abuses of Crimean Tatars, to send observer mission
VILNIUS (Reuters) – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Friday described the situation in Crimea as “unacceptable”, decrying rights abuses against Turkic-speaking Tatars and saying Ankara would dispatch an informal observer mission soon. …read more Source:...
VIDEO: The children of Ukraine’s war
Natalia Antelava visits a children’s centre for youngsters involved in the war in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Ukraine, rebels discuss broadening weapons withdrawal: aide
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine, Russia and Russian-backed separatists are discussing prospects for extending a pull-back of weapons in east Ukraine to include tanks and smaller weapons systems, a press aide to Kiev’s representative at peace talks said on Thursday. …read more Source:...
Russia will use ‘nuclear force against Nato if it moves troops to Baltic States’
Pro-Russian supporters attend a rally in Simferopol, Crimea (Picture: Reuters)Russia will use ‘nuclear force’ on Nato forces if they move into the three Baltic countries as a response to its annexation of Crimea, according a leaked memo. The threat was made by Russian generals during a meeting with United States representatives in Germany...
Hillary Clinton’s proven foreign-policy track record could be her undoing
Despite outweighing potential presidential rivals on foreign policy, the former secretary of state may be impacted by the unpopularity of President Obama’s world view that makes her rhetoric on the subject a tricky needle to threadThe final days before Hillary Clinton’s expected campaign for president have been marked by a bright...
