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    US Official:’ A Free Europe Rises or Falls With Ukraine’
    Jan28

    US Official:’ A Free Europe Rises or Falls With Ukraine’

    Wednesday, January 28 , 2015 - 0:53 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    A top U.S. official said Tuesday that the conflict in eastern Ukraine has become a battleground for a peaceful and free Europe. “We all know that today, a Europe whole, free and at peace rises or falls with Ukraine. Ukraine’s front line for freedom is ours as well,” Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland told a gathering...

    Klaatu, Where Are You?
    Jan28

    Klaatu, Where Are You?

    Wednesday, January 28 , 2015 - 0:23 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    Moscow is ending cooperation with the United States to secure nuclear material in Russia. But what about the aliens? No, not the illegal aliens. The space aliens. You know, extraterrestrials? E.T.? ALF? Bear with me here for minute. We’re Americans. We like to discuss really awkward or heavy topics using science fiction. And nuclear weapons...

    Are the U.S. and Russian Governments Once Again on the Nuclear Warpath?
    Jan28

    Are the U.S. and Russian Governments Once Again on the Nuclear Warpath?

    Wednesday, January 28 , 2015 - 0:23 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    A quarter century after the end of the Cold War and decades after the signing of landmark nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements, are the U.S. and Russian governments once more engaged in a potentially disastrous nuclear arms race with one another? It certainly looks like it. With approximately 15,000 nuclear weapons between them, the...

    Grecian Burn
    Jan28

    Grecian Burn

    Wednesday, January 28 , 2015 - 0:07 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    Greece’s election of a self-proclaimed radical leftist could hand an unexpected win to Russian President Vladimir Putin by exacerbating divisions within Europe over how to respond to Moscow’s latest aggressive moves in Ukraine. European foreign ministers are set to huddle Thursday, Jan. 29, to try to reach consensus on how to dial up...

    Fighting Intensifies in Eastern Ukraine
    Jan27

    Fighting Intensifies in Eastern Ukraine

    Tuesday, January 27 , 2015 - 23:38 (EEST) Section: Time (USA)

    A weekend of fierce fighting in Ukraine’s embattled Donbass region continued Monday as pro-Russian insurgents encircled Ukrainian government troops in a new advance. The war of words heated up, too, as Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Kiev of relying on a “foreign legion” to wage war against the separatist militias. NATO...

    Ukraine Parliament Votes To Call Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics Terrorist Groups
    Jan27

    Ukraine Parliament Votes To Call Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics Terrorist Groups

    Tuesday, January 27 , 2015 - 23:07 (EEST) Section: International Business Times (USA)

    The Ukrainian parliament passed a vote on Tuesday officially declaring Russia as an aggressor state and naming the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics as terrorist organizations. The vote, which passed 271 to 27 in the 450-seat Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, encourages Ukraine’s partners to hold Russia...

    OSCE calls on Russia to close its border with Ukraine
    Jan27

    OSCE calls on Russia to close its border with Ukraine

    Tuesday, January 27 , 2015 - 22:07 (EEST) Section: United Press International (USA)

    JC FinleyVIENNA, Jan. 27 (UPI) — The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe appealed to Russia to close its border with Ukraine in order to contain conflict in the border region. …read more Source: United Press...

    Top American Diplomat Decries “Lies” of Russian Media
    Jan27

    Top American Diplomat Decries “Lies” of Russian Media

    Tuesday, January 27 , 2015 - 21:38 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    America’s top diplomat in Europe denounced Russian state-media coverage of the Ukraine crisis on Tuesday and belittled the Kremlin’s propaganda efforts in the United States as fallacious and ineffective. “All you have to do is look at RT’s tiny tiny audience in the United States to understand what happens when you broadcast...

    Fun With Conspiracy Theories: Was the Chernobyl Disaster a CYA Move to Hide Something Even Worse?
    Jan27

    Fun With Conspiracy Theories: Was the Chernobyl Disaster a CYA Move to Hide Something Even Worse?

    Tuesday, January 27 , 2015 - 21:38 (EEST) Section: Newsweek (USA)

    Dormant for a decade and a half, the Russian Woodpecker appeared to return in December 2013. Once, the notorious tapping of the massive Soviet over-the-horizon radar had frustrated and puzzled Western radio operators, who could discern neither the origin nor purpose of the strange signal. It was coming from somewhere behind the Iron Curtain; its...

    Ukraine moves to shut Russia-backed rebels out of talks
    Jan27

    Ukraine moves to shut Russia-backed rebels out of talks

    Tuesday, January 27 , 2015 - 21:22 (EEST) Section: KXAN (USA)

    KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday declared the Russia-backed separatist republics in the east to be terrorist organizations, formally eliminating the possibility of holding peace talks with their representatives, as fighting escalated. The move came after Russian President Vladimir Putin pushed the Ukrainian government to...