Section: Newsweek (USA)
Putin to Meet South Korea’s President To Discuss Energy and North Korea
Vladimir Putin has invited South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye to Russia for talks, the Kremlin announced Wednesday. The leaders will meet in Vladivostok on September 3. The current agenda for their discussion is quite broad, although Park’s spokesman has made clear that North Korea’s nuclear proliferation will be among the...
Neither Vladimir Putin Nor His Staff Have Ever Spoken to Trump: Kremlin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has never spoken to U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump and neither has anyone in his administration, a Kremlin spokesman has told NBC. Dmitry Peskov said the Russian leader has had no contact with Trump, despite Trump telling Fox News in 2014 that “when I went to Russia with the Miss Universe pageant, he...
Asylum Seeker Applications Rise to 30-Year High in Europe: Study
More than a million refugees and migrants applied for asylum in Europe in 2015, a record number that is a 122 percent increase versus the previous year, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. The European Union, Norway and Switzerland received 1.3 million asylum applications last year, with around half of all applicants...
Vladimir Putin Ally Hails Russia’s Airborne Troops as Best In the World
Russian parliamentary speaker Sergei Naryshkin has hailed the country’s airborne troops, infamous for their suspected involvement in the Ukraine crisis, as the best in the world. The VDV paratrooper unit marks its official holiday Tuesday and Naryshkin, who is Vladimir Putin’s former chief-of-staff and a leading member of his United...
Trump Warns Taking Crimea From Russia Would Trigger World War III
U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump has warned restoring Ukrainian control over Crimea from Russia would cause World War III, U.S. broadcaster CBS reports. Trump’s knowledge of international affairs has been called into question on numerous occasions, however, following an interview with ABC over the weekend, his understanding...
War With Russia Looms, Says Former NATO General in New Book
The first female president of the United States faces her first major international conflict: Seeking to consolidate the Slavic nations of Eastern Europe, Russia has seized the three Baltic states—Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia—all members of NATO. That requires a response beyond just a caustic tweet or sharply worded press release. For the first...
Donald Trump: If I’m Elected, Vladimir Putin Is Not Going Into Ukraine
U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump has issued a cryptic message to Russia, promising that if he is elected then Vladimir Putin will not go “into Ukraine.” In an interview with U.S. broadcaster ABC that aired over the weekend, Trump was asked about Putin’s presence in Ukraine. He replied: “He’s not going to go into Ukraine,...
U.S. and Ukraine Troops Join NATO Baltic Artillery Drill
U.S. and Ukrainian troops will join Baltic allies for two weeks of artillery drills in Lithuania from Tuesday. Military drills by NATO allies in Eastern Europe and the Baltic have increased in significance since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, shocking many former Communist states by how quickly Moscow was able to mobilize a force and...
Putin Unveils Russian Army Monument in Slovenia
Russian President Vladimir Putin joined his Slovenian counterpart Borut Pahor at Slovenia’s Russian Chapel and unveiled a monument to Russian troops during a visit on Saturday, Slovenian state news agency STA reports. Putin visited Slovenia over the weekend, marking the 100th anniversary of the holy site near the Vrsic Pass in the former...
Russia To Deploy Three Frigate Warships to Crimea By 2017
Russia is set to deploy three frigate warships to annexed Crimea by the end of the year in a larger reinforcement strategy, according to state news. Even prior to Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, Russia’s Black Sea Fleet had retained facilities on the peninsula with Kiev’s permission. Since the annexation,...
