Section: US & Canada
Tiny Baltic States Prepare to Hit Back at Mighty Russia
Earlier this month, a Russian warship entered Latvia’s exclusive economic zone, some nine nautical miles from the country’s territorial waters. Considering that Russian warships have already approached Latvian waters some 50 times this year, according to figures from Latvia’s Ministry of Defence, it was not an altogether...
Russia Says Will Not Press ‘Allies’ On Territorial Issues
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow will not pressure its “allies” to recognize Crimea as a part of Russia or to join it in recopgnizing Georgia’s breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions as independent states. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Putin’s Big Mistake
If Russian troops attack Mariupol, a city of 500,000 in eastern Ukraine, it could alienate Ukraine from Russia in irreversible ways. …read more Source:...
Ukraine: One Family’s Dramatic Year
It’s been a tumultuous year for Halyna Trofanyuk. At the beginning of the year she traveled from her small village in western Ukraine to brave freezing conditions and brutal security forces at the protests in Kyiv. It was a decision that brought her to the very center of Ukraine’s political drama, but which also had far-reaching...
Russia warns of military assault on the east
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s foreign policy chief on Wednesday claimed that Ukraine’s decision to freeze budget payments to the eastern rebel-held territories could be a precursor to a military onslaught. …read more Source: U.S....
Top German diplomat meets with Putin on Ukraine
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister met with Vladimir Putin in Moscow for talks on the Ukraine crisis after the Russian president invited him to the Kremlin at the last minute before he headed back to Berlin. …read more Source: U.S....
Russia warns of military assault on the east
Russia’s foreign policy chief on Wednesday claimed that Ukraine’s decision to freeze budget payments to the eastern rebel-held territories could be a precursor to a military onslaught. …read more Source: WAVE 3...
Russia warns of Ukraine military onslaught
Russia’s foreign policy chief on Wednesday claimed that Ukraine’s decision to freeze budget payments to the eastern rebel-held territories could be a precursor to a military onslaught. …read more Source: FOX...
Russia’s foreign minister warns that Ukraine is preparing for military assault on the east
Russia’s foreign policy chief claims that Ukraine’s decision to freeze budget payments to the eastern rebel-held territories could be a precursor to a military onslaught. …read more Source: FOX...
Russia Wants a ’100% Guarantee’ That Ukraine Won’t Join NATO
A top adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that the Kremlin wants “a 100 percent guarantee” that Ukraine will be prevented from joining NATO. Dmitri Peskov told the BBC that NATO’s eastward expansion continued to make Russia “nervous.” His comments echoed similar tough talk coming from President Putin, who promised a...
