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    NATO Ministers Meeting to Consider Further Actions to Defend Against Russia
    Feb05

    NATO Ministers Meeting to Consider Further Actions to Defend Against Russia

    Thursday, February 5 , 2015 - 1:38 (EEST) Section: The Epoch Times (USA)

    BRUSSELS—With NATO officials calling Russia more unpredictable now than during the Cold War, alliance defense ministers on Thursday are expected to approve further measures to enhance the organization’s ability to deter or respond to military threats from Moscow. Adam Thomson, Britain’s permanent representative to NATO, predicted...

    Crowdfunding the War in Ukraine — From Manhattan
    Feb05

    Crowdfunding the War in Ukraine — From Manhattan

    Thursday, February 5 , 2015 - 1:07 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    At French Roast, a bistro on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Ivan Rodichenko remembers when a machine gun took his comrade’s head clean off — and what happened next. “The Russians took his cellphone out of his pocket and rifled through his contacts. They found the numbers for his parents and his girlfriend and called them to say Oleh was...

    Civilian woes deepen as battle surges on Ukraine front line
    Feb05

    Civilian woes deepen as battle surges on Ukraine front line

    Thursday, February 5 , 2015 - 0:53 (EEST) Section: The Bismarck Tribune

    Ukranian government soldiers tries to fix his truck in Artemivsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. Soldiers bark orders at exhausted residents boarding evacuation buses with overflowing bags … …read more Source: The Bismarck...

    Inside the Obama Administration’s About-Face On Arming Ukraine
    Feb05

    Inside the Obama Administration’s About-Face On Arming Ukraine

    Thursday, February 5 , 2015 - 0:38 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    Since last year’s start of the crisis in Ukraine, the White House repeatedly has turned down requests from Kiev for weapons. Over the last four days, American policy has shifted so dramatically that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said late Tuesday he is certain guns are coming. Part of the reason for the turnabout is the deteriorating...

    A very telling trend of who is leaving and who is entering Russia
    Feb05

    A very telling trend of who is leaving and who is entering Russia

    Thursday, February 5 , 2015 - 0:23 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    There’s a really telling trend about Russia’s demographics: Westerners are moving out of Russia, while citizens of central and east Asia are moving in. Germans, Americans, Britons, Fins, Spaniards, and Italians topped the list of foreigners moving out of Russia in 2014. On the other hand, those living in China, Armenia, Kazakhstan,...

    Merkel Says Give Diplomacy a Chance as Ukraine War Expands
    Feb05

    Merkel Says Give Diplomacy a Chance as Ukraine War Expands

    Thursday, February 5 , 2015 - 0:08 (EEST) Section: The Boston Globe (USA)

    They are heading out of town in eastern Ukraine as pro-Russian separatists expand their fight. Kiev’s Western allies are alarmed over the rebel advance in recent weeks–which all but ended a five-month-old ceasefire. They board buses provided by the Ukrainian emergency ministry. German Chancellor Angela Merkel acknowledges that the...

    Civilian woes deepen as battle surges on Ukraine front line
    Feb04

    Civilian woes deepen as battle surges on Ukraine front line

    Wednesday, February 4 , 2015 - 23:53 (EEST) Section: KXAN (USA)

    DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine (AP) — The morning silence is an uneasy prelude to the artillery fire that inevitably follows. Sealed off from the world by war, some inhabitants hesitantly approach visitors for news. There’s no time for anything more than a few words, as soldiers bark instructions at exhausted people boarding evacuation buses with...

    Russia’s Nuclear Strategy Raises Concerns in NATO
    Feb04

    Russia’s Nuclear Strategy Raises Concerns in NATO

    Wednesday, February 4 , 2015 - 23:53 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    Concern is growing in NATO over Russia’s nuclear strategy and indications that Russian military planners may be lowering the threshold for using nuclear weapons in any conflict, alliance diplomats say. NATO officials have drawn up an analysis of Russian nuclear strategy that will be discussed by alliance defense ministers at a meeting in...

    Civilian woes deepen as battle surges on Ukraine front line
    Feb04

    Civilian woes deepen as battle surges on Ukraine front line

    Wednesday, February 4 , 2015 - 23:37 (EEST) Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)

    There’s no time for anything more than a few words, as soldiers bark instructions at exhausted people boarding evacuation buses with overflowing bags in hand. On the front lines of Ukraine’s separatist war, despair is deepening for a shrinking population that has been without power, heating and running water for almost two weeks. The...

    Civilian misery deepens as fighting intensifies on front lines of Ukraine conflict
    Feb04

    Civilian misery deepens as fighting intensifies on front lines of Ukraine conflict

    Wednesday, February 4 , 2015 - 23:37 (EEST) Section: FOX News (USA)

    The morning silence is an uneasy prelude to the artillery fire that inevitably follows. …read more Source: FOX...