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    How Scared Do Clinton Voters Really Need to Be?
    Aug18

    How Scared Do Clinton Voters Really Need to Be?

    For many Democrats, this week has been a rapture of Republican dysfunction. Just since Sunday, the Trump campaign has been buffeted by scandals involving possible illegal cash payments from a pro-Russian Ukraine government to the campaign’s chair, staff shakeups that have put disgraced FOX News chair Roger Ailes and controversial Breitbart...

    To Russia, With Love
    Aug18

    To Russia, With Love

    I wrote for Politico today about the new revelations about Paul Manafort and the pro-Russia orientation of Trump campaign generally, and cataolgue the resulting bizarre inversions:It is the outsider candidate who has a lobbyist at the heart of his campaign. And not the upstanding sort of lobbyist who merely persuades the Ways and Means Committee...

    Ukraine: No Need For Russian Ambassador As Relations Near Non-Existent
    Aug18

    Ukraine: No Need For Russian Ambassador As Relations Near Non-Existent

    Ukraine has no need for a Russian ambassador at present, so poor are diplomatic ties between the countries, according to Ukraine’s foreign minister. Pavlo Klimkin told Ukrainian broadcaster Channel 5 that Moscow has ceased dialogue with Kiev. “Let us imagine that, theoretically, today or in the coming days a Russian ambassador comes here,”...

    Russia-Ukraine War Update: Putin Full-Scale Invasion Is Possible, Poroshenko Says
    Aug18

    Russia-Ukraine War Update: Putin Full-Scale Invasion Is Possible, Poroshenko Says

    Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko warned Thursday that a full-scale Russian invasion was possible as tensions again mount between the neighboring nations after increased military activity in Eastern Ukraine and along the border of Crimea. “The probability of escalation of the conflict remains very significant,” Poroshenko said in a...

    New Fighting Flares In Southeastern Ukraine
    Aug18

    New Fighting Flares In Southeastern Ukraine

    Fresh clashes broke out overnight as Ukrainian troops battled Russia-backed separatists in Talakivka, near the city of Mariupol. The fighting was the latest in a recent flare-up of hostilities in the country’s east. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    25 Years Ago: Failed August Coup Changed U.S. Diplomatic Approach Toward Soviet Union
    Aug18

    25 Years Ago: Failed August Coup Changed U.S. Diplomatic Approach Toward Soviet Union

    A failed coup in August 1991 by hard-liners in the Soviet government is widely seen as contributing to the dissolution of the Soviet Union by the end of 1991. To mark the 25th anniversary of the so-called August coup, RFE/RL spoke with former U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns about Washington’s perspective...

    Ukraine could introduce martial law if eastern fighting worsens: Poroshenko
    Aug18

    Ukraine could introduce martial law if eastern fighting worsens: Poroshenko

    KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday he did not rule out introducing martial law and a new wave of military… …read more Source:...

    Trump’s new campaign manager vows to let Trump be Trump
    Aug18

    Trump’s new campaign manager vows to let Trump be Trump

    The woman in charge of running Donald Trump’s campaign wants to let Trump be Trump, but in a more disciplined way.Kellyanne Conway, a Republican pollster and longtime Trump associate who was elevated to be his campaign manager this week, indicated Thursday in separate television interviews that under her guidance, the campaign will be more...

    Prominent Russian Lawyer Barred From Leaving Russia
    Aug18

    Prominent Russian Lawyer Barred From Leaving Russia

    Prominent Russian human rights lawyer Mark Feygin has been barred from leaving Russia in a move he says is aimed at preventing him from defending Crimean Tatars at an Organization for Security and Cooperation event in Warsaw. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Ukrainians Rally In Support Of Anticorruption Bureau
    Aug18

    Ukrainians Rally In Support Of Anticorruption Bureau

    Protesters demonstrated in front of Ukraine’s National Anticorruption Bureau on August 17 amid a growing conflict between that body and the Prosecutor’s Office, which raided the bureau last week. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...