A German-led NATO battle group of tanks, armored vehicles, and troops, including Lithuanians, engaged “enemy attackers” mid-March on a field outside a military base in Rukla, Lithuania. The NATO group fired flares, smoke canisters, and blanks for what a press officer said was the first demonstration of maneuvers since they arrived in Lithuania...

Mar22

U.S. and the Middle East: Power politics or amateur hour?

Wednesday, March 22 , 2017 - 11:00 (EEST) Section: Salon (USA)

(Credit: AP Photo/Lolita Baldor) The “Great Game” being played in the Middle East, with Syria and Iraq as the center rings, bears a superficial similarity to the power political maneuverings of the dominant European states in their African and Asian periphery during the 19th century. There is a somewhat closer resemblance to the Spanish civil war...

Mar22

Russia Ukraine Conflict: Moscow Launches Land, Air And Sea Drills Simultaneously In Crimea For First Time

Wednesday, March 22 , 2017 - 6:30 (EEST) Section: International Business Times (USA)

Russia has launched land, air and sea drills in annexed Crimea Monday, in a coordinated training exercise, which involve thousands of troops, making it the first time in Russia’s history to have launched three large airborne units simultaneously, officials said Tuesday. The Russian military has launched the exercise at the Opuk training...

Mar22

Preparing for Passover in Ukraine’s last shtetl

Wednesday, March 22 , 2017 - 0:30 (EEST) Section: Jewish Telegraphic Agency (USA)

Bronia Feldman visiting the synagogue of Bershad, Ukraine, March 9, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz) BERSHAD, Ukraine (JTA) — At first glance, this drab town 160 miles south of Kiev seems nearly identical to the settlements that dot the poverty-stricken district of Vinnitsa. Shrouded in a seemingly permanent cloud of smoke from wood fires — still the...

Mar21

Cyber Firm at Center of Russian Hacking Charges Misread Data

Tuesday, March 21 , 2017 - 23:45 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

An influential British think tank and Ukraine’s military are disputing a report that the U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has used to buttress its claims of Russian hacking in the presidential election. The CrowdStrike report, released in December, asserted that Russians hacked into a Ukrainian artillery app, resulting in heavy losses of...

Mar21

U.S. Reverses Course And Offers New Dates For NATO Talks

Tuesday, March 21 , 2017 - 23:15 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson proposed new dates on Tuesday for a NATO meeting, the State Department said, after he initially decided to skip the talks and rebuffed the alliance’s efforts to reschedule them.Tillerson’s decision to miss his first meeting with NATO foreign ministers, set for April 5-6 in Brussels, unsettled...

Mar21

Belarusian Leader Says 20 Foreign-funded Militants Arrested

Tuesday, March 21 , 2017 - 23:00 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

Belarus’ president said Tuesday that about 20 militants have been arrested for seeking to fuel unrest in the ex-Soviet nation, a statement that comes amid mounting social protests. Alexander Lukashenko said the militants were preparing an “armed provocation,” adding that they had undergone training in neighboring Ukraine and...

Mar21

Hacked text messages allegedly sent by Paul Manafort’s daughter discuss ‘blood money’ and killings, and a Ukrainian lawyer wants him to explain

Tuesday, March 21 , 2017 - 22:00 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

A human-rights lawyer wants to know who was advising or influencing Yanukovych when he ordered Ukrainian security forces to crush protests with force. One familiar name that has emerged: Paul Manafort. …read more Source: Business...

Ukraine Slaps Sanctions On Ex-Yanukovych Officials

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Lithuania Boosts NATO’s Baltics Border Defenses With Eye on Russia

U.S. and the Middle East: Power politics or amateur hour?

Russia Ukraine Conflict: Moscow Launches Land, Air And Sea Drills Simultaneously In Crimea For First Time

Preparing for Passover in Ukraine’s last shtetl

Cyber Firm at Center of Russian Hacking Charges Misread Data

U.S. Reverses Course And Offers New Dates For NATO Talks

Belarusian Leader Says 20 Foreign-funded Militants Arrested

Hacked text messages allegedly sent by Paul Manafort’s daughter discuss ‘blood money’ and killings, and a Ukrainian lawyer wants him to explain

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