Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Ukraine’s President Says Arms Withdrawal Is Almost Complete
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president says government and Russian-backed separatist forces have pulled back the bulk of their artillery and rocket launchers from the front line in the east, in compliance with a cease-fire deal. Petro Poroshenko told a state broadcaster Monday evening that some heavy weaponry remains in place at the...
Boris Nemtsov — Another Russian Is Dead
Another Russian is dead: Boris Nemtsov, an opposition leader and harsh critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is murdered in Moscow on Friday, February 27, 2015, one day before he is to lead a protest against the policies of Putin. “Life has no meaning in Russia,” said Natasha Fissiak, director of a new film Pussy Riot –...
Nemtsov Is Dead and I Blame You
Dear Family and Friends, This past weekend I received many messages from you expressing your genuine surprise at the brutal slaying of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. The sentiment expressed in these messages was mostly shock and disbelief. While I wanted to celebrate you finally agreeing with me, all I felt was anger. Anger that only...
Want to Understand President Obama’s Foreign Policy?
President Obama’s workload is certainly compacted by the looming shadow of World War III. But in an age of the rule of law vs. dystopia, the Free World requires a strong leader. Do you want to live in a society that beheads journalists and throws gay men from buildings? Do you want to live in a society where democratic activists are shot...
Ukraine: The Clash of Manichean Narratives and a Way Out
I recently took part in a very stimulating event entitled Saint-Petersburg Conference on World Affairs which took place in Florida on the campus of South Florida University. I had the pleasure of listening to Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and Joshua Landis an expert on Syria. This conference was organized by...
Putin Describes Secret Meeting To Take Crimea
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has described a secret meeting with officials last year when Russia decided it would take Crimea — the Black Sea region that Moscow annexed from Ukraine last March. In a trailer for an upcoming documentary, shown on state-owned television late Sunday, Putin said that he met with security officials in...
Islamist Motive For Killing Slain Russian Opposition Leader Nemtsov Is Nonsense, Friend Says
By Christian Lowe and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW, March 9 (Reuters) – Suggestions that Russian politician Boris Nemtsov was killed by Chechen Islamists are nonsense designed to deflect suspicion from President Vladimir Putin, a colleague of the slain opposition figure said on Monday. Investigators have charged two men including a former...
Beslan Shavanov, Man Wanted In Connection With Boris Nemtsov Killing, Reportedly Takes His Own Life
A man wanted in connection with the killing of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov took his own life on Saturday. According to Russia’s Interfax news agency, Beslan Shavanov, 30, was holed up in an apartment building in Grozny. When police arrived on the scene, he threw a grenade at officers and then blew himself up with a second one, Reuters...
Russian Authorities Charge 2 Over Nemtsov Shooting
By Katya Golubkova and Christian Lowe MOSCOW, March 8 (Reuters) – Moscow authorities have charged two men with involvement in the murder of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, one of whom served in a police unit in the Russian region of Chechnya according to a law enforcement official. A total of five men were frogmarched into a Moscow courtroom...
Modernizing the Polish Military
By law, Poland must spend at least 1.95 percent of its GDP on its military. That’s just a shade under the 2 percent that NATO asks its members to devote. Aside from Estonia, however, Poland is way ahead of the rest of the region in military spending. And when President Barack Obama visited Poland in June 2014, Poland committed to upping its...
