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    Ukraine: 1st casualty-free day since cease-fire
    Dec12

    Ukraine: 1st casualty-free day since cease-fire

    The break in fighting is the first since a cease-fire deal was signed in September. …read more Source: USA...

    Ukraine’s Military Budget Will Be Over $3 Billion in 2015
    Dec12

    Ukraine’s Military Budget Will Be Over $3 Billion in 2015

    Ukrainian officials plan to increase the military budget to about $3.2 billion for 2015, a 100 percent increase over this year. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk noted about 5 percent of Ukraine’s gross domestic product will go toward military and security spending. This news comes after Ukraine announced plans for a border wall with Russia...

    Podcast: What Happens Next?
    Dec12

    Podcast: What Happens Next?

    By all accounts, 2014 was a momentous year. So what happens now? Listen to a special year-end edition of the Power Vertical Podcast. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Hillary’s Policies (Two-State Solution, Mexico 43, EU Energy)
    Dec12

    Hillary’s Policies (Two-State Solution, Mexico 43, EU Energy)

    At the conclusion of my previous article on Secretary Clinton, I stated that “If we consider that harnessing new technologies and advancing women’s rights are global issues, then Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State may have sculpted her into the perfect president for this moment.” Bringing this vision to bear...

    Counter-Terrorism: Counter-Humanitarianism?
    Dec12

    Counter-Terrorism: Counter-Humanitarianism?

    After 13 years of war, American and British combat troops have left Afghanistan’s largest Province, Helmand, effectively bringing to an end what has arguably been the bloodiest fighting in the international military intervention since the War on Terror entered Afghanistan 2001. However, as Operation Enduring Freedom’s boots on the...

    Russia’s Monuments Keep Getting Graffitied with Ukrainian Flags
    Dec12

    Russia’s Monuments Keep Getting Graffitied with Ukrainian Flags

    On Friday morning, two war monuments in Russia’s Novosibirsk state were painted with the colors of the Ukrainian flag. The graffiti artists also wrote “Azov,” the name of a Ukrainian battalion fighting pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, on the monuments. Novosibirsk woke up today to find its...

    Ukraine president says cease-fire holding, calming conflict with Russia

    MOSCOW – Efforts to advance peace talks between Ukraine’s government and pro-Moscow rebels appeared on stronger footing Friday as a fragile cease-fire held in a conflict that has raised Russia-Western tensions to Cold War levels.Read full article >> …read more Source: The Washington...

    A Blast from the Past in Grozny
    Dec12

    A Blast from the Past in Grozny

    On a recent afternoon, during a visit to Grozny, the capital city of Russia’s Chechen Republic, I walked with several local reporters down Putin Avenue, a street that was named after the Russian leader in the early years of this century, not long after the Kremlin’s armed forces succeeded in tamping down a long-simmering rebellion and...

    Former Georgian Official Tapped For Ukraine’s Interior Ministry
    Dec12

    Former Georgian Official Tapped For Ukraine’s Interior Ministry

    A former deputy interior minister of Georgia, Ekaterina Zguladze, is expected to be appointed to a similar post in Ukraine next week. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Only ‘minimal’ risk of default: Ukrainian minister
    Dec12

    Only ‘minimal’ risk of default: Ukrainian minister

    Ukraine is still on the radar of investors, according to a minister, and has only a “minimal” risk of defaulting. …read more Source:...