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    Putin derides Ukraine’s martial law as political trick
    Nov29

    Putin derides Ukraine’s martial law as political trick

    KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s president donned combat fatigues to implement martial law in much of the country on Wednesday, a move Russia denounced as a cynical political trick as both sides ratcheted up tensions after a weekend standoff in the Black Sea. Each side blamed the other for the bellicose turn of events, with Ukraine saying Russia...

    President Trump Scraps Vladimir Putin Meeting at G-20 Over Russia-Ukraine Conflict
    Nov29

    President Trump Scraps Vladimir Putin Meeting at G-20 Over Russia-Ukraine Conflict

    (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump said he is canceling a one-on-one meeting with Vladimir Putin after Russia captured Ukrainian ships and sailors in the Kerch Strait near Crimea. Trump made the announcement in a tweet Thursday aboard Air Force One on his way to the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires, where the two leaders were scheduled to...

    Amid crisis with Russia, Ukraine’s president also faces political fight at home 

    Petro Poroshenko, deeply unpopular, is again at the forefront of a showdown with Moscow. …read more Source: The Washington...

    Trump Cancels Meeting With Putin as US, UK Back Ukraine in Wake of Russia’s Naval Attack
    Nov29

    Trump Cancels Meeting With Putin as US, UK Back Ukraine in Wake of Russia’s Naval Attack

    KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine got a valuable boost Thursday from its Western allies when ambassadors from the U.S. and Britain both condemned Russia’s seizure of three Ukrainian navy vessels and pledged their countries would do more to build up Ukraine’s naval forces. “We call on Russia to de-escalate the tension that Russia has created,”...

    Change in Post-Putin Russia?
    Nov29

    Change in Post-Putin Russia?

    Russia has reverted to a condition comparable to that which led in the end to the fall of the USSR. Today’s Kremlin, like its Soviet predecessor, has proved unable adequately to address the linked questions of how to secure beneficial relationships with the outside world, responsible governance, and stable economic and social development....

    Pompeo, Haley Condemn Russian Aggression Against Ukraine
    Nov29

    Pompeo, Haley Condemn Russian Aggression Against Ukraine

    Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley have rightly condemned Russia’s recent undue acts of aggression against Ukraine. Monday’s condemnation follows a provocation in the Black Sea the day before, when Russian Federal Security Service border patrol boats attacked and seized three Ukrainian...

    Defending Journalists in an Era of “Destroyed Rights”
    Nov29

    Defending Journalists in an Era of “Destroyed Rights”

    When things got desperate my parents signed letters. Letters which could cost them their safety and freedom. But they felt that not to sign was to acquiesce to the immorality of the regime when it arrested people for simply speaking their mind. This was in the Soviet Union, during the late 1970s, in the frosty years of the Cold War. Public...

    Trump Under Pressure to Take Forceful Line With Putin at G20
    Nov29

    Trump Under Pressure to Take Forceful Line With Putin at G20

    Until the Russian attack Sunday on Ukrainian vessels in the Black Sea, the White House and the Kremlin had at least been agreed on one thing: the agenda for Saturday’s scheduled face-to-face between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, their second summit meeting. Arms control, security issues as well as...

    Facing Up To Frozen Conflicts
    Nov29

    Facing Up To Frozen Conflicts

    Russia’s invasion and long occupation of parts of my country Georgia, as well as Ukraine, inevitably spawn discussions of “gray zones” and “frozen conflicts” among Western observers. These terms are meant to describe a world in which politics has ceased to operate effectively, or where efforts to unfreeze things have failed—in all cases due...

    Trump cancels G-20 meeting with Putin, citing Ukraine crisis; follows Cohen plea in Russia probe
    Nov29

    Trump cancels G-20 meeting with Putin, citing Ukraine crisis; follows Cohen plea in Russia probe

    Trump cancels his meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Argentina, an hour after he told reporters he would probably meet with the Russian president. …read more Source:...