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    Ukraine’s Security Service Calls for Travel Ban on Marine Le Pen
    Jan04

    Ukraine’s Security Service Calls for Travel Ban on Marine Le Pen

    Wednesday, January 4 , 2017 - 15:02 (EEST) Section: Newsweek (USA)

    Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) is calling on the government to blacklist French nationalist leader Marine Le Pen and stop her entering the country after comments she made Tuesday about Russia’s annexation of Crimea. The French presidential candidate and leader of the far-right National Front party angered Kiev by claiming that she...

    Israeli man arrested in Uman, Ukraine for desecrating cross
    Jan04

    Israeli man arrested in Uman, Ukraine for desecrating cross

    Wednesday, January 4 , 2017 - 14:02 (EEST) Section: Jewish Telegraphic Agency (USA)

    (JTA) — Police in the city of Uman in Ukraine arrested an Israeli man they suspect of defacing a large crucifix as payback for the desecration of a synagogue last month. The suspect, Netanel Shimon, is said to have dismantled on Dec. 31 the Jesus icon from a crucifix that locals in 2013 set up near the bank of a lake where many Jews go to perform...

    A “New Cold War” Against Russia Is a Terrible Idea
    Jan04

    A “New Cold War” Against Russia Is a Terrible Idea

    Wednesday, January 4 , 2017 - 13:02 (EEST) Section: New Republic (USA)

    Donald Trump is often described as an unconventional politician, but there is at least one surprising way he’s following in the footsteps of his most recent predecessors. Both George W. Bush and Barack Obama began their presidencies with high hopes of improving U.S.-Russian relations. At a 2001 summit in Slovenia, Bush met with Vladimir...

    Top 5 Ways Obama Sanctions on Russia Work for Democrats
    Jan04

    Top 5 Ways Obama Sanctions on Russia Work for Democrats

    Wednesday, January 4 , 2017 - 10:17 (EEST) Section: AlterNet (USA)

    Click here for reuse options! Why did the Obama administration put on this charade? President Obama’s sanctions on Russia are small potatoes and will have almost no effect on the Russian Federation. The high officials sanctioned are unlikely to have assets in the US that Washington can attach. When you hear that the US is sanctioning the...

    Obama’s Last-Minute Legacy-Padding on Foreign Policy
    Jan04

    Obama’s Last-Minute Legacy-Padding on Foreign Policy

    Wednesday, January 4 , 2017 - 7:47 (EEST) Section: National Review (USA)

    Of all Barack Obama’s costumes, the most ill-fitting is that of the hawk. The guise doesn’t work for all sorts of ideological and historical reasons. Plus there’s the fact that he’s rushing to put on the outfit as he’s heading out the door.The new sanctions against Russia are fine with me on the merits, even if they...

    Obama Administration Set for One Last Strike at Israel
    Jan04

    Obama Administration Set for One Last Strike at Israel

    Wednesday, January 4 , 2017 - 7:17 (EEST) Section: FrontPage Mag (USA)

    A week and a half ago President Obama gave the order for the U.S. to abstain on UN Security Council Resolution 2334, thereby—effectively—voting in favor and allowing the resolution to pass. As I noted, the resolution goes beyond “moral equivalency” by obfuscating Palestinian terror and incitement while branding Jewish life beyond the 1949...

    Ukraine, the West and a Dead End
    Jan04

    Ukraine, the West and a Dead End

    Wednesday, January 4 , 2017 - 7:02 (EEST) Section: The Globalist (USA)

    By Andreas UmlandWhat the West must do so that a reformed Ukraine can survive in the face of a continuing Russian threat. The continuing Ukrainian reforms and, in particular, slowly returning economic growth have started to demonstrate first real-life effects of Western help to Kyiv. Yet, as long as Ukraine’s security issues remains...

    Legitimate Differences
    Jan04

    Legitimate Differences

    Wednesday, January 4 , 2017 - 5:47 (EEST) Section: The American Conservative (USA)

    Given the recent near-hysteria over Russia’s alleged hacking of U.S. political email traffic, it is difficult to imagine a U.S.-Russia relationship established upon a peaceful footing—or, to put it another way, a relationship so stable and constructive that it no longer would depend on the vagaries of changing political personalities....

    French Far-Right Presidential Contender Says Crimean Annexation Legitimate
    Jan04

    French Far-Right Presidential Contender Says Crimean Annexation Legitimate

    Wednesday, January 4 , 2017 - 5:02 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    France’s far-right leader and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said on January 3 that Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014 was “not illegal.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    What Trump Should Understand about China and North Korea
    Jan04

    What Trump Should Understand about China and North Korea

    Wednesday, January 4 , 2017 - 3:47 (EEST) Section: The National Interest (USA)

    Doug Bandow Security, Asia While Beijing does not want a nuclear Pyongyang, it wants collapse and chaos even less. In barely two weeks Americans will learn whether Donald Trump is as smart as he claims. He triumphed over the odds to win the presidency and most of his staff picks so far look serious. But his tweets continue to raise some...