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EU unlikely to impose fresh sanctions on Russia, presidency
European Union leaders are not expected to impose new sanctions against Russia at their summit this week over the conflict in Ukraine as long as the peace agreement is being respected, the EU presidency said Tuesday. …read more Source: CTV...
Russia to send missiles to Baltic exclave as part of military drills
Russia plans to station state-of-the art missiles to its westernmost Baltic exclave and deploy nuclear-capable bombers to Crimea as part of massive war games intended to showcase the nation’s resurgent military power amid bitter tensions with the West over Ukraine. …read more Source: CTV...
Russia to deploy missiles to Kaliningrad, bombers to Crimea as part of drills
Russia plans to station state-of-the art missiles to its westernmost Baltic exclave and deploy nuclear-capable bombers to Crimea as part of massive war games intended to showcase the nation’s resurgent military power amid bitter tensions with the West over Ukraine. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukraine officials scramble to quell anger after child killed by military vehicle
Residents in the eastern Ukrainian town of Kostyantynivka have angrily confronted regional officials over an accident in which an armoured military vehicle struck and killed a 6-year old girl. …read more Source: CTV...
From oil to the dollar, today is another wild economic ride
Once again, oil is going low, low, low. After speculation the price of oil had stabilized around $50, the price of West Texas Intermediate – the U.S. benchmark – is once again on a precipitous slide, as it becomes clear just how much oil the U.S. is producing. So much, in fact, that they are running out of storage space. This morning, the price...
‘There is no occupation of Crimea,’ Kremlin says, ruling out return to Ukraine
United States and European Union have warned that they will not drop sanctions over the Black Sea peninsula’s annexation a year ago …read more Source: The Globe and...
Russia’s Vladimir Putin waves the nuclear option
To visit Nikishino is to see the effects of almost total war. This could be the road to Berlin in 1945. It is, in fact, the road to Debaltseve, in eastern Ukraine, in 2015. Debaltseve is a small city and a railway hub, and was the prize in bitter fighting, which ended with Russian-backed separatists seizing it from Ukrainian forces five days...
How market forces are winning the climate change battle
A new report shows greenhouse gas production has stalled while economic growth continues. Despite the stereotype of climate change instransigence by business, it is the power of capitalism that’s coming to the rescue, Don Pittis writes. …read more Source:...
Retired U.S. General: U.S. should “start killing Russians” in Ukraine
The views of retired U.S. Army Maj.-Gen. Robert Scales, former commandant of the U.S. Army War College, seem to be getting a lot of play in Russia (not so much from what I can see in western media outlets but that might be because Scales was commenting on Fox News) Scales told Fox News March 10 about what he thinks the U.S. should do in response...
Mr. Harper’s phoney cold war
To the world, Canada is not a player in Russia’s proxy war in Ukraine. We give speeches — intended solely for domestic political consumption — but we’re nowhere near the centre of events. To the Harper government, however, Canada is more than a player — it’s a target. And not even NATO can convince it otherwise. The prime...
