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    AP PHOTOS: Crimea’s people face challenges as part of Russia
    Jan19

    AP PHOTOS: Crimea’s people face challenges as part of Russia

    Monday, January 19 , 2015 - 15:22 (EEST) Section: Associated Press (USA)

    SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (AP) — Crimea, promised Russian President Vladimir Putin, “will be a home to all the peoples living there.”… …read more Source: Associated...

    AP PHOTOS: Crimea’s people face challenges as part of Russia
    Jan19

    AP PHOTOS: Crimea’s people face challenges as part of Russia

    Monday, January 19 , 2015 - 15:22 (EEST) Section: KXAN (USA)

    SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (AP) — Crimea, promised Russian President Vladimir Putin, “will be a home to all the peoples living there.” Yet 10 months since the Kremlin tore up the map of Europe and seized the strategic Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine, many of Crimea’s 2.2 million inhabitants face a future rife with uncertainty and present-day...

    Time Not Right to Ease Russia Sanctions, EU says
    Jan19

    Time Not Right to Ease Russia Sanctions, EU says

    Monday, January 19 , 2015 - 14:56 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    European Union foreign ministers said on Monday there were no grounds to lift economic sanctions against Russia despite conciliatory proposals from the EU’s foreign policy chief as violence intensified in eastern Ukraine. Federica Mogherini had suggested in a confidential memo seen by Reuters that member states could start talking to Russia...

    Kazakh Editor Protests Magazine Closure With Hunger Strike
    Jan19

    Kazakh Editor Protests Magazine Closure With Hunger Strike

    Monday, January 19 , 2015 - 14:38 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    The editor of a Kazakh magazine that was shut down by the authorities has started a hunger strike in the nation’s largest city, Almaty. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    More clashes near Donetsk airport, three Ukrainian soldiers killed
    Jan19

    More clashes near Donetsk airport, three Ukrainian soldiers killed

    Monday, January 19 , 2015 - 14:23 (EEST) Section: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (USA)

    KIEV (Reuters) – Pro-Russian separatists and government forces clashed near the main airport in Donetsk today after a counter-offensive on Sunday by Ukrainian troops to reclaim lost ground and the Kiev military said three Ukrainian soldiers had been killed. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...

    FP’s Situation Report: An expanded air campaign against the Islamic State stalls; Ground efforts in Iraq are failing; U.S. collects evidence against North Korea through a hack of its own; and much more from around the world.
    Jan19

    FP’s Situation Report: An expanded air campaign against the Islamic State stalls; Ground efforts in Iraq are failing; U.S. collects evidence against North Korea through a hack of its own; and much more from around the world.

    Monday, January 19 , 2015 - 14:08 (EEST) Section: Foreign Policy (USA)

    By David Francis with Sabine Muscat Plans to expand air strikes against the Islamic State are stalled. The United States and Turkey still are unable to agree on priorities in the bombing campaign in Syria and, as a result, the expected expansion of American-led bombings is going nowhere. The Washington Post’s Karen DeYoung: Syrian President...

    Rebels claim to control Donetsk airport after intense fight
    Jan19

    Rebels claim to control Donetsk airport after intense fight

    Monday, January 19 , 2015 - 13:53 (EEST) Section: New York Daily News (USA)

    Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine claimed Monday that they have seized control of the Donetsk airport after days of intense fighting. …read more Source: New York Daily...

    Russian economy to shrink 4.8% this year: EBRD bank
    Jan19

    Russian economy to shrink 4.8% this year: EBRD bank

    Monday, January 19 , 2015 - 13:38 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    London (AFP) – Russia’s battered economy will shrink by a far worse-than-expected 4.8 percent this year, as plunging oil prices add to fallout from the Ukraine crisis, the EBRD development bank forecast Monday.The London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development sharply revised its September prediction for a 0.2-percent...

    Russia capital flight more than doubled in 2014 to $151 bn
    Jan19

    Russia capital flight more than doubled in 2014 to $151 bn

    Monday, January 19 , 2015 - 11:53 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Moscow (AFP) – Net capital outflows from Russia more than doubled in 2014 to $151.5 billion, prompted by the Ukraine crisis and the plunging value of the ruble, according to statistics from the central bank.Russia in 2013 had already seen its high level of capital flight, a recurring problem for the country, reach $61 billion.In early...

    Pro-Russian Rebels Claim To Control Donetsk Airport After Days Of Intense Fighting
    Jan19

    Pro-Russian Rebels Claim To Control Donetsk Airport After Days Of Intense Fighting

    Monday, January 19 , 2015 - 11:53 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine claimed Monday that they have seized control of the Donetsk airport after days of intense fighting. Ukrainian officials have not confirmed a retreat.”All attempts of Ukrainian army to take the airport and to get revenge for the defeat of the last year… have failed,”...