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    Who Are Oles Buzina And Sergey Sukhobok? 2 Pro-Russian Ukrainian Journalists Killed In Kiev
    Apr16

    Who Are Oles Buzina And Sergey Sukhobok? 2 Pro-Russian Ukrainian Journalists Killed In Kiev

    Two pro-Russian journalists from Ukraine were shot dead this week in their native country, with at least one of the deaths happening Thursday. Oles Buzina, a news editor, was killed Thursday afternoon. Sergey Sukhobok, who was an oppositionist known for his pro-Russian views, was also killed, though it is unclear exactly when he died because of...

    Hillary Clinton Calls For Greater Military Assistance And Financial Aid For Ukraine
    Apr16

    Hillary Clinton Calls For Greater Military Assistance And Financial Aid For Ukraine

    Hillary Clinton has diverged from President Barack Obama’s Ukraine policy by calling for more military assistance and greater financial aid for the partially war-torn former Soviet country. Clinton, who announced her run for U.S. president on Sunday, said that if Ukraine was to succeed against Russian-supported separatists, it would need...

    Russia-Japan relations over disputed islands unchanged after Crimea: Putin
    Apr16

    Russia-Japan relations over disputed islands unchanged after Crimea: Putin

    MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s relations with Japan over disputed Pacific Islands have not changed following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea from… …read more Source:...

    Ukraine’s Constitutional Court Postpones Hearings On Lustration Law
    Apr16

    Ukraine’s Constitutional Court Postpones Hearings On Lustration Law

    Ukraine’s Constitutional Court has postponed hearings on a law aimed at firing civil servants who have been linked to corruption under the rule of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych’s government. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    The Deep Roots of the Ukraine Crisis
    Apr16

    The Deep Roots of the Ukraine Crisis

    Richard SakwaWe must rethink the post–Cold War security order. …read more Source: The...

    High-Riding Ruble Pulls Putin’s Chestnuts out of Fire
    Apr16

    High-Riding Ruble Pulls Putin’s Chestnuts out of Fire

    In what has become almost an annual ritual since 2001, Vladimir Putin took to the airwaves to participate in a lengthy call-in show, fielding vetted questions from citizens and prominent figures for several hours on national television. The questions were far-ranging—some concerning Russia’s sending troops to Ukraine (he denied it), others...

    Pro-Russian Figures Killed In Ukraine
    Apr16

    Pro-Russian Figures Killed In Ukraine

    A prominent Ukrainian journalist known for his pro-Russian views has been gunned down in Kyiv, a day after a former lawmaker loyal to ousted President Viktor Yanukovych was found dead in the city. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Curbing the kleptocrats: Kiev chips away at its pervasive corruption
    Apr16

    Curbing the kleptocrats: Kiev chips away at its pervasive corruption

    ‘We have a total kleptocratic state,’ says Yegor Sobolev, Ukraine’s lead anti-graft legislator. But he is cheerfully confident that ‘we will win.’ …read more Source: Christian Science...

    Putin isn’t sure if the people who ordered the murder of an Kremlin critic Boris Nemstov ‘even exist’
    Apr16

    Putin isn’t sure if the people who ordered the murder of an Kremlin critic Boris Nemstov ‘even exist’

    Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke for over three hours on a number of domestic and international issues, including the shocking murder of opposition leader Boris Nemstov in February. He said that though the government knew who actually killed Nemstov within a “matter of hours” who knows who gave the order, or if such people even...

    Ask him (almost) anything: Putin on Ukraine, murder and milk
    Apr16

    Ask him (almost) anything: Putin on Ukraine, murder and milk

    In what has become a yearly tradition, Vladimir Putin took questions from Russians in an hours-long, wide-ranging call-in show that touched on the conflict in Ukraine, the murder of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, Russia’s sale of missiles to Iran and the price of milk. See also: Vladimir Putin’s Distorted Reality Putin flatly denied...