Section: The Hill (USA)
Why the third Maydan is necessary
As Kyiv girds herself for what some are already calling the “third Maydan,” Ukrainians have long since concluded that the first two didn’t work out so well. On Saturday, as many as 100,000 demonstrators are expected in the capital’s main… …read more Source: The...
Time to wake up to corruption reality in Ukraine
Of the many foreign policy pots and pans left neglected on the next President’s stove, the one marked “Ukraine” may be ready to boil over. It is a goulash of bribery, theft, official corruption and even murder – and nothing is as it first… …read more Source: The...
Setting the record straight on Crimea
My colleague on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Hon. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), wrote a thought-provoking and provocative op-ed on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion and occupation of eastern Ukraine. We can all agree that Putin… …read more Source: The...
Trump and Crimea: from Russia with Love
I do not particularly care that Donald Trump personally admires Vladimir Putin. Everyone needs a role model. However, Mr. Trump’s stunning naiveté of the crisis in Ukraine has allowed him to adopt policies that are so foreign they are almost Russian… …read more Source: The...
Moldova: the New Cold War's corrupt battleground
As tensions between the U.S. and Russia escalate, several countries of the former Soviet Union are caught in the middle. Ukraine, Georgia, and a small country of Moldova, sandwiched between the NATO member Romania and Ukraine, are an example… …read more Source: The...
The soft-power brilliance of Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin is globally acknowledged as a war hawk, known for the type of driving military campaigns that led to Russia’s intervention in Ukraine and its military support of the Bashar Assad regime in Syria. A lesser-… …read more Source: The...
Dire situation in Ukraine overshadows Manafort story
I don’t know if GOP nominee Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was paid boatloads of cash by former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych, who is widely considered a corrupt thug. I don’t know if Manafort has or remains on Yanukovych’s… …read more Source: The...
Ukraine: Knocking at the gates of Europe
On July 20, the assassination of a well-respected journalist in Kyiv shook post-revolutionary Ukraine in a way that even the war a few hundred miles away could not. Killed by a car bomb in the city center, Pavel Sheremet lived the liberal-democratic… …read more Source: The...
Ukraine’s ambassador: Trump’s comments send wrong message to world
They stand at odds with America’s role as a beacon of freedom and democracy. …read more Source: The...
Trump’s views on Ukraine are straight from the Kremlin
His comments suggest he’s bought into Russian propaganda on eastern Ukraine and Crimea. …read more Source: The...
