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    Despite Its Flaws, I Still Believe in NATO
    Jan12

    Despite Its Flaws, I Still Believe in NATO

    Huffington Post readers can be deeply skeptical of NATO, and it’s not hard to understand why. It’s not the kind of place that inspires awe. The antiquated Headquarters in Belgium resemble less a political-military nerve center than a high-end trailer park. A British observer is said to have called it a ‘Soviet...

    Ukrainian Miners Block Road
    Jan12

    Ukrainian Miners Block Road

    Miners blocked a main road in western Ukraine in protest at unpaid salaries. The men said they were owed money from the November and December pay packets. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Putin: Reports Russia is bombing non-ISIS are ‘lies’
    Jan12

    Putin: Reports Russia is bombing non-ISIS are ‘lies’

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Western media reports that Russia has bombed targets in Syria not belonging to the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) as “lies” and defended Syrian President Bashar Assad, German tabloid Bild reports. Putin was interviewed by Bild in Sochi, Russia, on January 5, with the paper publishing the...

    Russia wants to create 3 new military divisions with 5 nuclear missile regiments
    Jan12

    Russia wants to create 3 new military divisions with 5 nuclear missile regiments

    Eduard KorniyenkoRussia says it will form three new military divisions on its Western flank this year, and deploy five strategic nuclear missile regiments on combat duty. Local news agencies quoted Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu as making the announcement on January 12. Shoigu said it will also be necessary to improve the infrastructure...

    ‘Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom’ Comes to Netflix
    Jan12

    ‘Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom’ Comes to Netflix

    “No one was expecting to have kids beaten at 4 o’clock in the morning. No one was expecting people to be kidnapped or killed. It was just unfolding,” explains Evgeny Afineevsky, director of the film Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom, which documents the 93 day uprising that led to the downfall of president Viktor...

    Lawyer: Savchenko’s Health ‘Worrisome’
    Jan12

    Lawyer: Savchenko’s Health ‘Worrisome’

    A lawyer for Ukrainian military pilot Nadia Savchenko, who has been on hunger strike in Russian custody for nearly a month, has described the state of his client’s health as “worrisome.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Ukraine’s Opposition Move to Overturn Blacklisting of Gérard Depardieu, Fred Durst and Others
    Jan12

    Ukraine’s Opposition Move to Overturn Blacklisting of Gérard Depardieu, Fred Durst and Others

    The Kiev District Administrative Court has requested that Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture justifies the blacklist it has compiled of pro-Russian actors and entertainers, whose work is set to be sanctioned in the country, Ukrainian news agency Ukrainsky Novini reports. Currently 83 people are on the Ukrainian government’s so-called...

    India sentences crew of US-owned ship to 5 years in jail
    Jan12

    India sentences crew of US-owned ship to 5 years in jail

    NEW DELHI (AP) — A news report says an Indian court has sentenced the crew of an American-owned ship to five years in prison for illegally entering Indian waters while carrying weapons and ammunition. In its report late Monday, the Press Trust of India news agency, or PTI, said the 35-member crew includes British, Ukrainian and Estonian...

    Forget Putin’s Global Posturing—Russia’s Biggest Challenges for 2016 Are Domestic
    Jan11

    Forget Putin’s Global Posturing—Russia’s Biggest Challenges for 2016 Are Domestic

    After a remarkably fraught and complicated 2015, Vladimir Putin’s Russia finds itself still sanctioned by the West for its conduct in Ukraine, dogged by falling oil prices and dicing with a deadly conflict in Syria. And it’s increasingly difficult to foresee the challenges Putin and his country will face in 2016—or how they will...

    Putin: ‘Paris Attacks Could Have Been Avoided If The U.S. Had Listened To Me’
    Jan11

    Putin: ‘Paris Attacks Could Have Been Avoided If The U.S. Had Listened To Me’

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the Islamist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people in November could have been avoided if the U.S. and others had listened to his advice, and not intervened in the Middle East. Putin gave a rare foreign interview to popular German tabloid Bild on January 5 in the Russian city of Sochi, with the full...