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    Russia and China Increase Defense Spending While US Continues Cutting
    Apr11

    Russia and China Increase Defense Spending While US Continues Cutting

    Every year at this time we see the same kind of headlines: “U.S. biggest military spender in the world.” They’re are all based on the release of the global military spending database, an annual report compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). What the headlines usually miss is that U.S. defense spending is...

    What Minsk Means
    Apr11

    What Minsk Means

    Editor’s Note: How do Russia and the West see one another? What are the experts’ views on the confrontation between Russia and the West? How do the pundits explain the Russo-Ukrainian war and Russia’s Syrian gambit? What are the roots of the mythology about Russia in the West, and why has the West failed to predict and...

    Why A Genuine Normalization of Relations Between America and Cuba Is an Uphill Struggle
    Apr11

    Why A Genuine Normalization of Relations Between America and Cuba Is an Uphill Struggle

    On March 21, 2016, US President Barack Obama and Cuba’s leader Raul Castro held a historic joint news conference. Obama’s visit to Havana, the first made by an American president since Calvin Coolidge’s trip in 1928, was regarded as a seminal event in the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the Cold War-era...

    A Tense Night In Eastern Ukraine’s Trenches
    Apr11

    A Tense Night In Eastern Ukraine’s Trenches

    Fighting was reported on April 11 around the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiyivka. Russia-backed separatists pounded Ukrainian government positions with artillery and mortar shells. Cease-fire violations have been on the rise. A week earlier, RFE/RL correspondent Levko Stek spent a tense night in the trenches with Ukrainian troops. (RFE/RL’s...

    A Tense Night In Eastern Ukraine’s Trenches
    Apr11

    A Tense Night In Eastern Ukraine’s Trenches

    Fighting was reported on April 11 around the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiyivka. Russia-backed separatists pounded Ukrainian government positions with artillery and mortar shells. Cease-fire violations have been on the rise. A week earlier, RFE/RL correspondent Levko Stek spent a tense night in the trenches with Ukrainian troops. (RFE/RL’s...

    As Ukraine PM resigns, is government running out of time?
    Apr11

    As Ukraine PM resigns, is government running out of time?

    Volodymyr Groysman, an ally of President Poroshenko, is likely to take the spot – a move some see as strengthening the president’s hand in pushing reform. …read more Source: Christian Science...

    Ukraine Looks Toward New Government Following PM’s Resignation
    Apr11

    Ukraine Looks Toward New Government Following PM’s Resignation

    Ukraine is looking to create a new coalition government, following Sunday’s resignation of embattled Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Yatsenyuk announced his resignation saying he hoped it would give Ukraine a chance to adopt new electoral, constitutional and judicial reforms, as well as join the European Union and NATO. Ukraine President...

    France seeks G20 tax haven blacklist, EU sanctions on evaders
    Apr11

    France seeks G20 tax haven blacklist, EU sanctions on evaders

    PARIS (Reuters) – France will seek tougher EU sanctions on people who help to facilitate tax evasion and a G20 blacklist of uncooperative tax… …read more Source:...

    Ukraine’s Prime Minister Calls It Quits, Pressure Mounts to Form New Coalition
    Apr11

    Ukraine’s Prime Minister Calls It Quits, Pressure Mounts to Form New Coalition

    KYIV, Ukraine—In a televised address Sunday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced he would step down Tuesday, marking the end of a two-month-long political crisis. “We cannot allow destabilization of the executive branch during a war,” Yatsenyuk said. Ukrainian forces are still battling combined Russian-separatist forces in a...

    This Is How the Oil Crisis Has Impacted Military Spending
    Apr11

    This Is How the Oil Crisis Has Impacted Military Spending

    A report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has revealed that most of the world’s nations hiked their military budgets last year, marking the first increase in spending since the 2008 crisis. It seems that the only ones not taking part in this military spending hike are some of the world’s biggest oil producers....