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    EU Toughens Sanctions on Crimean Companies
    Dec18

    EU Toughens Sanctions on Crimean Companies

    Thursday, December 18 , 2014 - 17:41 (EEST) Section: The Wall Street Journal (USA)

    The EU toughened its sanctions on Crimea-based companies, introducing measures that range from a ban on cruise ships visiting local ports to a ban on sales of energy and telecoms technology. …read more Source: The Wall Street...

    The U.S., Cuba, and Strategic Foreign Policy
    Dec18

    The U.S., Cuba, and Strategic Foreign Policy

    Thursday, December 18 , 2014 - 17:26 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    Many of President Obama’s critics are characterizing him as a bumbling idiot and a traitor for having broken the 55-year old ice between the U.S. and Cuba. If they had their way, Cuba’s people would remain imprisoned by U.S. sanctions for another half century, long after the Castro brothers are gone. These are the same critics who...

    Poll Shows 81 Percent of Russians Back Putin Even as Ruble Falls
    Dec18

    Poll Shows 81 Percent of Russians Back Putin Even as Ruble Falls

    Thursday, December 18 , 2014 - 17:10 (EEST) Section: The Epoch Times (USA)

    MOSCOW—From a Western perspective, Vladimir Putin’s days as president of Russia should be numbered: The ruble has lost more than half its value, the economy is in crisis and his aggression in Ukraine has turned the country into an international pariah. And yet most Russians see Putin not as the cause, but as the solution. The situation as...

    Poll: 81 percent back Putin even as ruble falls
    Dec18

    Poll: 81 percent back Putin even as ruble falls

    Thursday, December 18 , 2014 - 17:10 (EEST) Section: KXAN (USA)

    MOSCOW (AP) — From a Western perspective, Vladimir Putin’s days as president of Russia should be numbered: The ruble has lost more than half its value, the economy is in crisis and his aggression in Ukraine has turned the country into an international pariah. And yet most Russians see Putin not as the cause, but as the solution. The...

    EU Adopts Tougher Crimea Sanctions, Russia Irate
    Dec18

    EU Adopts Tougher Crimea Sanctions, Russia Irate

    Thursday, December 18 , 2014 - 17:10 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    The European Union on December 18 adopted an investment ban that targets firms and individuals in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in March. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Putin’s epic annual news conference, condensed

    Thursday, December 18 , 2014 - 16:55 (EEST) Section: The Washington Post (USA)

    At his year-end news conference in December 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin had plenty of reason to preen. Russian opposition to Western intervention in the Syrian conflict had won sympathy in many parts of the world. Ukraine, at that point, appeared firmly in Moscow’s orbit, and his vision of a Eurasian Union rivaling Europe looked...

    The Russian Crisis and the Syria Connection
    Dec18

    The Russian Crisis and the Syria Connection

    Thursday, December 18 , 2014 - 16:55 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    President’s Obama announcement on Cuba is indicative of three important elements; first, while the president is handicapped by the existence of a Republican-dominated Congress, he is definitely capable of darling foreign policy initiatives. Second, the president is not so passive in the field of foreign policy as his adversaries, both in...

    Putin Shows Stick to West, Carrot to Oligarchs, and Heart to’Someone’
    Dec18

    Putin Shows Stick to West, Carrot to Oligarchs, and Heart to’Someone’

    Thursday, December 18 , 2014 - 16:40 (EEST) Section: Time (USA)

    Russian President Vladimir Putin defended his officials, appeased local oligarchs and, of course, railed at the West Thursday as he faced journalists for the first time since the ruble went into free-fall last week. Russia’s most eligible divorcee also managed to break hearts from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad by saying he’s in love...

    The 11 Best Quips From Putin’s Annual Press Conference
    Dec18

    The 11 Best Quips From Putin’s Annual Press Conference

    Thursday, December 18 , 2014 - 16:40 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a marathon press conference Thursday in which he discussed the economy, the collapse of the ruble, Ukraine, China, tensions with the West, talk of a “new Cold War,” and more. Over the course of the three-and-a-half-hour press conference, Putin also made quite a few humorous quips. We’ve...

    Research team uses imaging to study Shoah killing sites in Ukraine
    Dec18

    Research team uses imaging to study Shoah killing sites in Ukraine

    Thursday, December 18 , 2014 - 16:25 (EEST) Section: Jewish Telegraphic Agency (USA)

    KIEV, Ukraine (JTA) — An international team of researchers launched a study of Holocaust-era killing sites in the Kremenets region in western Ukraine. The project was initiated this year by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, or IHRA, whose April report on killing sites ruled out conducting archeological digs in such locales as this...