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    Russia’s Financial Crisis Hits Ordinary Citizens
    Dec23

    Russia’s Financial Crisis Hits Ordinary Citizens

    The collapse of the Russian currency has led to increased mortgage payments for some ordinary Russians who are paying off loans based on foreign currency. Analysts predict that Russia will enter recession sometime next year as a result of declining energy prices and western sanctions against Moscow for its interference in eastern Ukraine. Zlatica...

    60 Journalists Killed In 2014 As Targeting Of International Press Rises, Study Finds
    Dec23

    60 Journalists Killed In 2014 As Targeting Of International Press Rises, Study Finds

    NEW YORK -– The horrific deaths of James Foley and Steven Sotloff in Syria brought worldwide attention to the dangers journalists face in war zones. The beheadings reflected an alarming trend in 2014 in which international journalists were increasingly targeted and killed. There were at least 60 journalists killed globally in connection to their...

    World briefs: Ukraine peace talks scheduled
    Dec23

    World briefs: Ukraine peace talks scheduled

    KIEV, Ukraine — Peace talks aimed at resolving the crisis in Ukraine will resume, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said after a phone conversation with the leaders of Russia, Germany and France. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...

    Leaders Agree On More Ukraine Peace Talks In Minsk
    Dec23

    Leaders Agree On More Ukraine Peace Talks In Minsk

    The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany have agreed to call another round of Ukraine peace talks this week. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Cuba Announcement Augurs Big Breakthroughs in 2015
    Dec23

    Cuba Announcement Augurs Big Breakthroughs in 2015

    President Obama’s bold announcement last week on Cuba has upended the conventional narrative that his administration, buffeted by foreign policy crises throughout 2014, had lost its ability to set the international agenda. Instead, he seems poised to make 2015 a year when he at last realizes his earliest supporters’ hopes for dramatic...

    North Korea Suffers Internet Blackout
    Dec23

    North Korea Suffers Internet Blackout

    North Korea’s Internet connectivity went dark Monday, just days after President Obama warned the U.S. would launch a “proportional response” to the attack against Sony. The hermit country’s Internet access first became unstable late Friday and worsened over the weekend. By Monday, North Korea’s Internet was completely offline....

    Will Russia’s economic woes burst bubble for Jews?
    Dec22

    Will Russia’s economic woes burst bubble for Jews?

    Actor Boris Smolkin, left, and a volunteer at St. Petersburg’s Choral Synagogue, Nov. 30, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz) ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (JTA) — In the basement of one of Europe’s largest synagogues, 100 Jews are waiting to meet local film star Boris Smolkin. The crowd applauds enthusiastically as the 66-year-old funnyman, who gave his...

    Do Sanctions Work?
    Dec22

    Do Sanctions Work?

    Amid the buzz around new U.S. and EU sanctions being imposed on Russia, sanctions on another country, on the other side of the world, were being gently lifted. In October, following elections, America and Australia removed all remaining sanctions on Fiji, which had included travel bans for top officials, an embargo on arms sales and limits on...

    Ukraine Peace Talks May Be Held In Minsk On Dec. 24 And 26: Poroshenko
    Dec22

    Ukraine Peace Talks May Be Held In Minsk On Dec. 24 And 26: Poroshenko

    KIEV (Reuters) – A fresh round of peace talks involving Russia, Ukraine and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will be held in the Belarussian capital on Dec. 24 and 26, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said in a statement on Monday. The dates were discussed in a phone conversation among French President Francois...

    What Can Latvia’s Integration With Europe Teach Ukraine?
    Dec22

    What Can Latvia’s Integration With Europe Teach Ukraine?

    Fabrizio Tassinari is head of foreign policy at the Danish Institute for International Studies and a visiting professor at Humboldt University in Berlin. He is the author of the book Why Europe Fears its Neighbors. RIGA — Seen from Riga, one is tempted to write a counterfactual history of the Ukraine war. What would have happened if the...