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    Clapper: Give Ukraine “Lethal Defensive Weapons”
    Mar02

    Clapper: Give Ukraine “Lethal Defensive Weapons”

    Monday, March 2 , 2015 - 23:53 (EET) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    The U.S. government’s senior intelligence official said that he believes the Obama administration should give Kiev “lethal defensive weapons” for its struggle against the Russian-backed separatists battling the country’s military in eastern Ukraine Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the Council on Foreign Relations...

    Russia is turning Crimea into a forward operating base against NATO
    Mar02

    Russia is turning Crimea into a forward operating base against NATO

    Monday, March 2 , 2015 - 23:53 (EET) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Russia is heavily militarizing Crimea as a way to project power deep in to the Black Sea, USNI News reports citing supreme commander of NATO Gen. Philip Breedlove. “What we have seen is that Crimea has been transformed in some fairly significant ways as far as weapon systems in the Crimea,” Breedlove said during a conference on February 25....

    U.S. Allies Left in the Dark
    Mar02

    U.S. Allies Left in the Dark

    Monday, March 2 , 2015 - 23:38 (EET) Section: The Washington Free Beacon (USA)

    U.S. allies are raising concerns about what they say is unwillingness on the part of the Obama administration to share vital intelligence that could prove decisive in conflicts in Europe and the Middle East. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that U.S. officials degrade satellite images of the positions of Russian-backed separatists...

    Nemtsov and the Smoking Gun
    Mar02

    Nemtsov and the Smoking Gun

    Monday, March 2 , 2015 - 23:38 (EET) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    Boris Nemtsov has been dead for less than three days. During this time, the media and blogsosphere have understandably gone into overdrive in the attempt to figure out exactly what happened. Journalists are trained to answer the key questions “who, what, when, where, how, and why”, but the most important ones in this case (who and...

    In Egypt, Seeing the Muslim Brotherhood for What It Is
    Mar02

    In Egypt, Seeing the Muslim Brotherhood for What It Is

    Monday, March 2 , 2015 - 23:38 (EET) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    By Stanley A. Weiss and Raphael BenaroyaGSTAAD AND CAIRO–In the early 1990s, Robert Pelletreau, the United States Ambassador to Egypt, met with Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Washington, DC. Pelletreau had been asked by then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher to discuss the possibility of Egypt relaxing its repressive stance towards...

    Ukraine Debt Ratio Breaches Terms
    Mar02

    Ukraine Debt Ratio Breaches Terms

    Monday, March 2 , 2015 - 23:24 (EET) Section: The Wall Street Journal (USA)

    Ukraine National Bank said the country’s sovereign and sub-sovereign debt reached 71.5% of GDP at the end of 2014, effectively breaking the terms of a eurobond it sold to Moscow. …read more Source: The Wall Street...

    Nemtsov’s Companion, Witness to Killing, Says She’s Barred From Leaving Russia
    Mar02

    Nemtsov’s Companion, Witness to Killing, Says She’s Barred From Leaving Russia

    Monday, March 2 , 2015 - 22:54 (EET) Section: The New York Times (USA)

    Anna Duritskaya, a Ukrainian model, said the Russian police were not allowing her to return to Ukraine, though they have not formally detained her. …read more Source: The New York...

    Witness to Nemtsov Shooting Says He Did Not See Killer
    Mar02

    Witness to Nemtsov Shooting Says He Did Not See Killer

    Monday, March 2 , 2015 - 22:38 (EET) Section: The Epoch Times (USA)

    MOSCOW—The Ukrainian woman with Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov when he was gunned down told Russia media on Monday that she did not see his killer, as conflicting reports emerged about the availability of surveillance footage showing the slaying. I turned around and all I saw was a light-colored car. I saw neither the brand nor the license plate of...

    In Death, Boris Nemtsov Embodies the Hope of a Better Russia
    Mar02

    In Death, Boris Nemtsov Embodies the Hope of a Better Russia

    Monday, March 2 , 2015 - 22:23 (EET) Section: The Epoch Times (USA)

    Boris Efimovich Nemtsov was killed just before midnight on February 27 2015. Nemtsov’s death was both the culmination and the continuation of his extraordinary political life. I first encountered Nemtsov in 1992 at a meeting with a World Bank delegation in his office in the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, a few months after he had been appointed...

    Putin’s Next Prize in Eastern Ukraine
    Mar02

    Putin’s Next Prize in Eastern Ukraine

    Monday, March 2 , 2015 - 22:23 (EET) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    During the four-month-long “ceasefire” that followed the Sept. 5, 2014, Minsk agreement between Ukraine’s government and the Russia-backed separatist rebels, the shells never stopped falling on four key targets: Two of them — the Donetsk airport and the city of Debaltseve — have now been captured. Indeed, Russia’s second major...