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    Leaders mark Auschwitz liberation 70 years on without Putin
    Jan27

    Leaders mark Auschwitz liberation 70 years on without Putin

    Tuesday, January 27 , 2015 - 9:52 (EEST) Section: KXAN (USA)

    OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Holocaust survivors and world leaders are preparing to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Red Army, but Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be among those present. Poland apparently snubbed Putin, failing to send him an invitation. Poland’s government is extremely critical of...

    Leaders mark Auschwitz liberation 70 years on without Putin
    Jan27

    Leaders mark Auschwitz liberation 70 years on without Putin

    Tuesday, January 27 , 2015 - 9:52 (EEST) Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)

    OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Holocaust survivors and world leaders are preparing to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Red Army, but Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be among those present. Poland apparently snubbed Putin, failing to send him an invitation. Poland’s government is extremely critical of...

    Moscow and NATO Trade Barbs as Fighting Intensifies in Ukraine
    Jan27

    Moscow and NATO Trade Barbs as Fighting Intensifies in Ukraine

    Tuesday, January 27 , 2015 - 8:24 (EEST) Section: Time (USA)

    Clashes continued to escalate in Ukraine’s war-torn Donbas region Monday after a weekend of fierce fighting and shelling in the country’s southeast rendered a five-month-old peace accord all but dead. On Monday, pro-Russian insurgents encircled a government garrison in the town of Debaltseve that lies along a main road and rail route...

    Survivors return to Auschwitz, 70 years on, as leaders sound alarm
    Jan27

    Survivors return to Auschwitz, 70 years on, as leaders sound alarm

    Tuesday, January 27 , 2015 - 8:08 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Oswiecim (Poland) (AFP) – Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, ageing survivors and dignitaries gather at the site synonymous with the Holocaust on Tuesday to honour victims and sound the alarm over a fresh wave of anti-Semitism.On the eve of the landmark event, which is expected to draw several heads of state, a leading Jewish...

    Russia defiant after more threats from West over Ukraine
    Jan27

    Russia defiant after more threats from West over Ukraine

    Tuesday, January 27 , 2015 - 7:07 (EEST) Section: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (USA)

    MOSCOW — A defiant President Vladimir Putin on Monday called the Ukrainian army a “NATO foreign legion,” reflecting his readiness to stand up to the West regardless of rising economic costs, as Standard & Poor’s rating agency downgraded Russia’s credit rating to junk. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...

    Attack on Ukraine’s Mariupol targeted civilians: UN
    Jan27

    Attack on Ukraine’s Mariupol targeted civilians: UN

    Tuesday, January 27 , 2015 - 6:08 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Moscow (AFP) – The UN said a rocket attack that killed 30 people in a city in eastern Ukraine deliberately targeted civilians, as Russian President Vladimir Putin spurned Western calls to rein in a pro-Moscow insurgency.A senior UN official told an emergency Security Council meeting that the deadly rocket barrage on the port city of...

    Last Survivors Recall Auschwitz, Ask if Lessons Learned
    Jan27

    Last Survivors Recall Auschwitz, Ask if Lessons Learned

    Tuesday, January 27 , 2015 - 6:08 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    Russia’s Vladimir Putin will be absent from the main event marking 70 years since Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, held against a backdrop of hostilities in Ukraine and warnings of a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe. The commemoration on Tuesday at the site in southern Poland where the Nazis killed about 1.5...

    Raw grief at Ukraine graves
    Jan27

    Raw grief at Ukraine graves

    Tuesday, January 27 , 2015 - 5:08 (EEST) Section: CNN (USA)

    Funerals are held in Mariupol, Ukraine, for the 30 people who were killed by a missile strike over the weekend. CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh reports. …read more Source:...

    Undercover Banker: Feds Bust Russian Spy Ring in New York
    Jan27

    Undercover Banker: Feds Bust Russian Spy Ring in New York

    Tuesday, January 27 , 2015 - 4:53 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    On April 8, 2013, Victor Podobnyy sat down for a conversation with his boss, Igor Sporyshev, in the New York offices of Russia’s foreign intelligence agency, the SVR. Podobnyy had recently met a consultant who hoped to strike it rich in Russia’s oil industry, and Podobnyy hoped to pump him for information. “He got hooked on Gazprom,”...

    US Warns of More Sanctions Against Russia; Ukraine Waiting for ‘Lethal’ Aid
    Jan27

    US Warns of More Sanctions Against Russia; Ukraine Waiting for ‘Lethal’ Aid

    Tuesday, January 27 , 2015 - 4:53 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    The United States is echoing concerns from Western allies about Russia’s continued interference in eastern Ukraine. U.S. military officials say Moscow’s support for separatists is “troubling,” as is the presence of what they call “a strong Russian force postured along the Ukrainian-Russian border.” VOA’s Jeff Seldin reports from...