Section: Newsweek (USA)
NATO to Deploy Four Battalions in Poland and Baltics
NATO will deploy four battalions in Poland and the Baltics, Polish Minister of Defense Antoni Macierewicz announced on Tuesday, public broadcaster Polskie Radio reports. The alliance previously announced that it will introduce a multinational force that will tour through Eastern Europe, conducting exercises with national troops. Secretary General...
10,000 Ukrainians Killed So Far in Two-Year War
Since the start of hostilities in eastern Ukraine, 10,000 Ukrainians have been killed and over twice as many wounded, the deputy head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council has announced. Fighting between pro-government factions and Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine’s eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk has been...
Polish Officer Jailed For Being a Russian Spy
A Polish military officer has been sentenced to six years in jail after being found guilty of spying on his homeland for Russia, national broadcaster Radio Polska reports. Lieutenant Colonel J. Zbigniew, whose full name was not given, had been arrested in 2014 and convicted last month, although the verdict and details about the trial were made...
Russia Warns NATO It Will Neutralize Any Threat From Black Sea
Relations between NATO and Russia continue to deteriorate after Moscow promised to neutralize any threats to its presence in the Black Sea. The country’s envoy to NATO, Alexander Grushko, told state newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta that the Black Sea would not become a “NATO lake.” Russia sees the region as vital to its foreign policy—since the...
U.S. Kicks Off 10,000-Strong Drill in Eastern Europe
The U.S. Army in Europe has kicked off an exercise that will see over 4,000 troops from NATO allies arrive in the Baltics and 10,000 soldiers from 13 countries across Eastern Europe. The Baltic Saber Strike exercise, which launched on Friday, will run in conjunction with the U.S.-led Dragoon Ride, which will take 400 armored vehicles from...
Quora Question: Why Would Anyone Like and Support Vladimir Putin?
Quora Questions are part of a partnership between Newsweek and Quora, through which we’ll be posting relevant and interesting answers from Quora contributors throughout the week. Read more about the partnership here. Answer from Rhodri James ‘Llewelyn’ Gillham: In essence, Vladimir Putin performed an epic economic lazarus act on...
Separatist Georgian Region to Vote on Joining Russia in 2017
The Kremlin-backed separatist region of Georgia called South Ossetia is set to vote on whether or not to join Russia next year, according to a statement by separatist officials. South Ossetia declared its independence in 1991, before the Georgian coastal region of Abkhazia did the same in 1992. Tensions between their benefactor, Russia and...
Nadiya Savchenko Ready to Run for President of Ukraine
Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who was released by Russia earlier this week, has announced she is willing to run for president “if needed.” Savchenko spent nearly two years in Russian detention under allegations that she was complicit in the killing of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine in 2014. She denied the charges and accused...
Mikhail Gorbachev Banned From Ukraine After Crimea Comments
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has banned former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev from entering Ukraine for a period of five years, news site Ukrainskaya Pravda has reported. Gorbachev is held in high esteem by many Western politicians for his attempts to reform the Soviet Union and presided over the successful declaration of independence...
Putin: Russia and EU Have ‘No Problems’ That Cannot Be Solved
Vladimir Putin has declared that despite the current drop in relations between Europe and Russia, Moscow and the EU do not have “any problems that we cannot solve.” The Russian president has become a political pariah with EU and Western leaders since the start of the Ukraine crisis in 2014, with Russia excluded from G8 summits and diplomatic...
