Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
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...
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...
From Britain to Beijing: how governments manipulate the internet
The Kremlin’s ‘cyber army’ is gaining increasing notoriety, but similar tactics are used to influence opinion around the worldMoscow has been accused of financing an “army of trolls” to post pro-Russian opinions across the internet, The Kremlin, however, is not the only government intent on using the web to promote a particular point...
Salutin’ Putin: our lives inside a Russian troll house
Former workers tell how hundreds of bloggers are paid to flood forums and social networks at home and abroad with anti-western and pro-Kremlin commentsJust after 9pm each day, a long line of workers files out of 55 Savushkina Street, a modern four-storey office complex with a small sign outside that reads “Business centre”. Having spent 12 hours...
Crimea’s independent Tatar TV news channel silenced by ‘red tape’
Russian authorities’ refusal to renew licence over alleged paperwork ‘errors’ forces ATR to shut down after annexation from UkraineCrimea’s only independent TV news channel, ATR, has been forced to stop broadcasting after the new authorities rejected its attempts to register for a licence.ATR is also the only channel that...
Ukrainian investigations into Kiev clashes ‘lacked independence’
Probes into protests that led to ousting of president Viktor Yanukovych in 2014 failed to satisfy human rights convention, international report saysAn international report has found that Ukrainian investigations into the deadly clashes that took place during the 2013-14 Euromaidan protests in Kiev have failed to hold law enforcement officials to...
The 20 photographs of the week
The Germanwings plane crash, the liberation of Damasak from Boko Haram militants, the Cricket World Cup, the escalating conflict in Yemen – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week … …read more Source: The...
How do you solve a problem like Ukraine?
Analysis: Kiev should stop banning Russian films and TV programmes and start talking to Russophone Ukrainians, says Nicolai PetroNot long ago, former Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko gave a wide ranging interview in which he offered the man who now sits in that seat some advice.President Petro Poroshenko must understand, the ex-leader said,...
Ukraine’s president sacks oligarch from post as regional governor
Ihor Kolomoisky is removed after the businessman sends armed guards to the HQ of national oil companyUkraine’s president has sacked powerful oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky from his post as a regional governor, after an altercation that saw the businessman send armed men to the offices of a state company and launch a barrage of swearwords at a...
