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Ukraine’s president seeks new crisis talks on Saturday
Jul04

Ukraine’s president seeks new crisis talks on Saturday

Ukraine’s president has proposed a time and place for holding talks on the crisis in eastern Ukraine tomorrow but is waiting for a response from the other side, his web site said today. …read more Source: Buenos Aires...

Families caught in crossfire in eastern Ukraine
Jul04

Families caught in crossfire in eastern Ukraine

When the daily shelling starts in this besieged city in eastern Ukraine, those who have not yet fled the fighting grab their children and head underground. …read more Source: Buenos Aires...

Russia, Ukraine agree to work on ceasefire, France says
Jun30

Russia, Ukraine agree to work on ceasefire, France says

The leaders of Russia and Ukraine have agreed to work on a ceasefire between separatists and the Ukrainian authorities and on quickly setting up effective border controls, the French president’s office said. …read more Source: Buenos Aires...

Putin urges Kiev to stop fighting, begin dialogue
Jun22

Putin urges Kiev to stop fighting, begin dialogue

Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that artillery was used in overnight fighting in eastern Ukraine and urged Kiev to cease fighting and begin dialogue with the rebels. …read more Source: Buenos Aires...

Falkland Islands and Crimea the new cold war
May09

Falkland Islands and Crimea the new cold war

In an article for Penguin News, distinguished political and scientific Bulgarian author Dr Lyubomir Ivanov (*) discusses the Crimean conflict and its parallel with the Falklands.The Argentine President Cristina Kirchner praised the recent Crimean status referendum as, “one of the famous referendums of self-determination.” …read more Source:...

West will never go to war over non-NATO Ukraine
May05

West will never go to war over non-NATO Ukraine

By Gwynne Dyer – With due apologies to God, Voltaire and the Ukrainians, I must point out that if Ukraine did not exist, it would not be necessary to invent it.It is not a great power, it has no resources the world cannot do without, and it is not a “vital strategic interest” to anybody except the Ukrainians. Not even to the Russians,...

Putin is losing Eastern European energy gamble
Apr28

Putin is losing Eastern European energy gamble

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he doesn’t think the European community can do without the natural gas it gets from energy monopoly Gazprom. With a Russian economy starting to decline, however, it may be Gazprom that’s too strongly interconnected to the European market to break free. …read more Source:...